"The fascinating thing about Blair is that he does not
bother to cover up his lies; he just repeats them." Boris
Johnson in The Spectator, 4 December 1999, p. 11
"Whenever I hear Tony Blair, David Blunkett, Greg Dyke
or any other similarly credulous techno-junkie burbling
on about the marvellous educational powers of computing
and the Internet, I feel a Goeringesque urge to reach for
my Schmeisser." James Delingpole in The Spectator,
11 December, 1999, p. 32
"It is teachers who still uphold and transmit ideas of
fairness and selflessness; teachers who still believe in
community; teachers who still have vocation and even in
their most militant moments remain committed to the young
people in their charge." Martin Johnson, president of the
National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers
quoted from The Times Education Supplement, April
28, 2000, p. 16
"One of the biggest fixers in London, Stevenson [Lord Stevenson
of Coddenham, chairman of the House of Lords Appointments
Commission] is nominally a cross-bencher but, as we know,
some are more across the bench than others." Jasper Gerard
in The Spectator, May 27, 2000, p. 16
"The words 'public sector' and 'crisis' marry as naturally
as 'Tony' and 'Cherie'." The Spectator, 19 February
2000, p. 7
"Peter Mandelson was happy to volunteer for the role of
hangman of history, and he had two essential qualifications
for the task: ignorance and ruthlessness." Bruce Anderson
in The Spectator, 18 March 2000, p. 10
"Blair is the better baby-sitter, but do you want a baby-sitter
running the country?." Bruce Anderson in The Spectator,
May 20, 2000, p. 8
"Going into Labour, as every newspaper sub-editor will
probably recognise over the next few days, has a double
meaning, and so has the phrase Labour wards." Alice Thomson
in The Spectator, May 20, 2000, p. 12
"Because life is too short to drink cheap beer." Slogan
on Warsteiner beer bottles in the USA
"[...] the shuttle is a collection of accidents waiting
to happen." The Economist, August 28, 2003
"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt
thought." George Orwell, reprinted from: Victoria Advocate,
August 25, 2003, p. 13A
"The only nuclear event going on concerning Iraq is a meltdown
of the Bush administration." Victoria Advocate, August
16, 2003, p. 12A
"[...] as the Los Angeles Times pointed out, standards
of honesty among strippers can sometimes be higher than
among cardinals." The Economist, June 21st, 2003,
p. 46
"ARE you the girl who lost her pink G-string to Prince
Harry? Call us on [...]." The Sun after a girl's lacy pink
G-string fell out of Prince Harry's heap of clothes when
he was asked to move a pile of clothes for an official photo
in his room at Eton College
"Like a bikini that shows everything except the essentials
[...]." The Times on the "road map" for peace between
Israel and the Palestinian
"Here's 20p - phone all of them." Gordon Brown's, the British
chancellor's, reported answer to Peter Mandelson in 1996
when the latter asked for 20p to phone a friend, according
to The Times; quoted from Guardian Unlimited,
The Wrap, May 21, 2003.
"Cynics might argue that even grey goo would be better
than the kitsch with which the Prince [of Wales] and Camilla
Parker Bowles have just fitted out Clarence house, [...]."
The Spectator, 3 May, 2003, p. 9, referring to the
Prince of Wales warning that developing nanotechnology risks
reducing the world to a "grey goo".
"The heavily-accented Mr Schwarzenegger, who makes President
Bush look like a natural orator, [...]" The Times
(online edition), April 29, 2003
"More and more modern journalism is opinion: listen to
any of the correspondents in the desert and you will find
that what they say is nine parts opinion and surmise, and
one part fact." Stephen Glover in: The Spectator,
March 29, 2003, p. 26
"The Bush administration is not known as a hotbed of intellectualism,
[...]" Newsweek, March 31, 2003, p. 54
"Donald Rumsfeld often quotes a line from Al Capone [...].
But should the guiding philosophy of the world's leading
democracy really be the tough talk of a Chicago mobster?."
Fareed Zakaria in Newsweek, March 24, 2003, p. 23
"In American bars, restaurants and diners, the size of
the portions are so grotesquely huge that most of them can
go only to waste or to waist." The Weekly Telegraph,
issue no. 607, p. 24
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