The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
BORIS JOHNSONNothing 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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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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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 was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.
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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 have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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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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Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.
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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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Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.
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I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.
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This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.
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The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what’s going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS.
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We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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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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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.
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What Hitler did in his concentration camps was equalled if not exceeded in foulness by the Soviet gulags, forced starvation and pogroms.
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I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
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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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It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.
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I want to win and I want to be in office.
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I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.
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I think it’s absolutely amazing and how the Remain side have the cheek to come and tell us that we improve our security by staying in this organisation I do not understand.
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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.
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I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.
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