I don’t believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.
BORIS JOHNSONThe mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities across London that are facing hardship and deprivation and are the victims of crime.
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Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.
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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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I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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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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What makes the achievements of communist Russia so special and different, that you can simper around in a CCCP T-shirt, while anyone demented enough to wear anything commemorating the Third Reich would be speedily banged away under the 1986 Public Order Act?
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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 next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.
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The mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities across London that are facing hardship and deprivation and are the victims of crime.
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People are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.
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I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.
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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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London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.
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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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Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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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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