It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.
BORIS JOHNSONI lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
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It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and one can imagine that Blair, twice victor abroad but enmired at home, is similarly seduced by foreign politeness.
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He wished that Britain had ‘a man of his supreme quality at the head of affairs in our country today’. This from the hero of the First World War! The man who had led Britain to victory over the Kaiser!
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When Cameron’s Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.
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I think it’d be disgraceful if a chap wasn’t allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal would be if you went to Vegas and you didn’t misbehave in some trivial way.
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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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Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
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He is the resounding human rebuttal to all Marxist historians who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces. The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.
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But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.
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It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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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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The only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.
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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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I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.
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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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I’m no communist. I’m a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.
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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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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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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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My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.
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Since January 1993 there have been 27 other countries not in the EU that have done better than the UK at exporting goods into the single market.
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My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.
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My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
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