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- Meant
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- Nov 07, 2020
Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to fight against a declining trend, you've got to have a much bigger bazooka.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there's no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you've got.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always brought up that if you can make a difference, you should, and if you don't it's a waste. So we'll see if I can make a difference.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
The two biggest threats to international security in 2013 are Iran getting a nuclear weapon, and Iran being bombed to stop it getting a nuclear weapon. Both would precipitate a long and dangerous conflict in an already unstable Middle East. Both would be a disaster.
- Contribution
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big risk to British lives in 2013 is in Afghanistan. Our troops, diplomats and aid workers have made a big contribution there. But while there is an end date for Western engagement, 2014, there isn't a proper end game.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest novelty of 2013 will be new leadership in China. Very little is known about the views of the new leaders - who will rule the country for ten years. But we do know they're the first generation of Chinese leaders who have spent the majority of their lives in a China 'opening up' to the rest of the world.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in the modern world.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole of government needs to contribute to the shared goal of restructuring the British economy. But that means taking on the myth that the Treasury either knows best or can run it all. It just doesn't.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
But for me, my personal relations, my personal family relations, are very important, and we've always tried to make sure that the public and the private are kept separate.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020