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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The BBC TV programme 'Back In Time For Dinner' doesn't just have one of the cleverest titles ever. It is a more-than-usually-serious attempt to recreate the recent past, the day before yesterday.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Successful state schools work because charismatic heads or teachers are terrific bluffers, giving the impression that they are to be feared while knowing in their hearts that they have no real power.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you really want to conceal something, leave it lying about where everyone can see it.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I rather guiltily read the books on which the TV series 'Game Of Thrones' is based, I was struck by one thing. The whole point of this saga is that ruthlessness pays, that evil generally wins, that justice is non-existent, and utter cynicism the only wisdom. It is the Middle Ages without the saving grace of Christianity.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gleeful, unembarrassed ruthlessness, once rightly kept in check, has become normal among us, and 'Game Of Thrones' is a success because this change is now more or less complete.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Channel is an international waterway through which the Russians are quite free to pass - and over which we have no exclusive right.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no such thing as a 'right to buy.' Proper conservatives don't believe in invented, taxpayer-subsidised rights, a creation of liberals. They believe in freedom. And the break-up of council estates was one of the most unconservative things that ever happened, making life harder for young families and destroying settled communities.
- Nov 07, 2020
The self-righteous supporters of mass immigration think the rest of us are stupid and evil.
- Hatred
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- Nov 07, 2020
What many of us object to is the politicians who, for whatever reason, forget that societies cannot easily absorb huge numbers of new citizens. I resent the suggestion that this perfectly reasonable view is motivated by racial hatred or personal spite.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
A referendum is almost always a device by which governments get the voters to endorse what they wanted to do all along.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, I never wanted an E.U. referendum, and I think those who called for it will one day wish they hadn't.
- Crown
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- Nov 07, 2020
If tough old Lefty Helen Mirren can warm towards the Crown after impersonating Her Majesty, who's next? Since reigning and acting have so much in common, it's surprising all actors aren't fervent royalists.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our pious horror at the intolerant and repressive behaviour of Islamic State is bitterly funny, given that it is really not that different from the policies of our close ally, Saudi Arabia.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world's poor have discovered that the E.U. (that's the country we live in, no point pretending there's anywhere called Britain any more) has absolutely no clue how to stop determined immigrants.
- Any Other Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thanks to centuries of island freedom, when we were able to decide who came in and who didn't, it is far easier to disappear in Britain than in almost any other country in the world.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Skimmed milk was what they used to give to prisoners and workhouse inmates to go with their porridge and gruel. It's a punishment, not a drink.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fat does not make you fat.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I am actually partly Cornish, I am frequently tempted to start some sort of Cornish liberation front in the Home Counties, where our language rights are badly neglected.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020