Churchill decides from very early on that he will create a political position that is somehow above left and right, embodying the best points of both sides and thereby incarnating the will of the nation.
BORIS JOHNSONLondon is a fantastic creator of jobs – but many of these jobs are going to people who don’t originate in this country.
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I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap-dancing, and other related and vital subjects
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People are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.
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Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
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He thinks of himself as a gigantic keystone in the arch, with all the lesser stones logically induced to support his position. He has a kind of semi-ideology to go with it – a leftish Toryism: imperialist, romantic, but on the side of the working man.
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My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.
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Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
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He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.
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Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.
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David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler was a ‘born leader’, declared the befuddled former British Prime Minister.
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The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.
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The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.
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In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can’t turn the clock back to 1904, what’s the point of being a Conservative?
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I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad … he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help.
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The difference between Hitler’s speeches and Churchill’s speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything.
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The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.
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