- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing politicians will always vote for is more politics, so in 2000 they invented the post of mayor of London without ever really thinking what it was a mayor would do.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is a mayor can actually do very little to alter the course of a huge city run by the free market that is home to banking - the engine room of capitalism.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Other people's traditions look charming and decorative and exotic. They're nice places to visit on holiday, but you wouldn't want to live with one.
- Hated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Margaret Thatcher was as viscerally hated at home as she was warmly respected abroad.
- Hatred
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no pleasing the British, or winning their favor. They simply hate politicians. All politicians. Hatred goes with politicians like mint sauce with lamb. It's as old as Parliaments.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hate numbs the judgment, paralyzes the vitals of democracy.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
No British TV company could ever make a series like 'The West Wing' about British politics. It would beggar credibility. No one could write it with a straight face, or perform it without giggling.
- Pointless
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- Nov 07, 2020
The suit is the polite taming, the socialising, the neutering, of riding and military kit. Those pointless buttons on the cuff were moved from lateral to vertical.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to thank the members of the Romantic movement for the sober colours of suits. It was their love of the Gothic that put us in grey and black but the suit stuck.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man imagines that he will turn his suit like a double agent, that it can be twisted to his will with irony or comedy, that the man can undermine its origins.
- London
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of London's image never was. There never was a Dickensian London, or a Shakespearean London, or a swinging London.
- Buildings
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the small joys that's easy to miss in London is the blue plaques on buildings. These are put up to commemorate the famous on the houses they lived in.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
London is a city of ghosts; you feel them here. Not just of people, but eras. The ghost of empire, or the blitz, the plague, the smoky ghost of the Great Fire that gave us Christopher Wren's churches and ushered in the Georgian city.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
If New York is a wise guy, Paris a coquette, Rome a gigolo and Berlin a wicked uncle, then London is an old lady who mutters and has the second sight. She is slightly deaf, and doesn't suffer fools gladly.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Americans come to London they usually say how much they love the history, the tradition, the splendid tumpty-tum of things whose very repetition has become their point.
- Destiny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gordon Brown is a character from a tragic opera, twisted by ambition and a Presbyterian sense of fateful destiny. He has waited 13 years, mostly in Tony Blair's shadow, for this poisoned chalice and has a pessimist's luck.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020