Life isn’t like coursework, baby. It’s one damn essay crisis after another.
BORIS JOHNSONChurchill 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.
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I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under.
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This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.
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Do you seriously propose that they are going to be so insane as to allow tariffs to be imposed. The EU is, I’m afraid a job destroying engine.
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Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism – that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.
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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.
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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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I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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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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Some people think that it [Brexit] is the end of the world. It’s not. On the contrary, it’s a massive opportunity for this country.
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You know, sometimes I don’t understand what’s wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we just don’t seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property.
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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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It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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