"She [Cherie Blair] is too aggressive. She bestows her
patronage and then removes it on a whim. ... Every time
she sits next to one of my bosses she tries to get me fired.
Blair is more sensible and understanding that we can't arse
lick. She takes it as a personal betrayal. She is too political."
Piers Morgan, editor of the Mirror, in: The Spectator,
20 July, 2002, p. 15
"Before the next election the Inter-Governmental Conference
of 2004 will have propelled the European Union further towards
its ambitions of superpower status, and the issue will be
whether there is a place for us in such an anti-American
state." Norman Tebbit, former chairman of the British Conservative
Party, in: The Spectator, 3 August, 2002, p. 9
"Children, to judge by school exam results, just keep on
getting cleverer." The Spectator, 14 September, 2002,
p. 7
"The answer to the question 'Why do US presidents throw
their weight around?' is the same as the answer to the question
'Why do dogs lick their balls?' Because they can." The
Spectator, July 6th, 2002, p. 28
"[...] there is a trade-off between efficiency and liberty.
An inefficient state can never repress its people as effectively
as an effictive one." The Economist, July 6th, 2002,
p. 12
"The concept of 'racism' is a great big lie. It has imposed
an oppressive neurotic guilt on millions of easily duped
people. It is a danger to freedom of thought, a powerful
instrument of state control." Peter Simple in The Weekly
Telegraph, issue 571, p. 25
"One man's fair trade [...] is another man's trade barrier."
The Spectator, June 29th, 2002, p. 7
"... the incorrigibly thespian Mr Blair ..." The Economist,
June 22nd, 2002, p. 42
"Tongues, like governments, have a natural tendency to
degeneration." Samuel Johnson, in the preface to his Dictionary
of the English Language, 1755
"The Queen is a bargain at £34 million a year." Alice Thomson
in: The Weekly Telegraph, issue no. 569, p. 24
"The reason so much of black Africa is a disaster is nothing
to do with colonialism, or droughts. The trouble is the
despotic behaviour of Africa's black rulers." The Spectator,
8 June, 2002, p. 7
"He is the type of person who sleeps at 9:30 p.m. after
watching the domestic news ." Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah
on President Bush, quoted from Newsweek, May 27th,
2002, p. 6
"The Germans are the second fattest people in the world,
and yet the food is poor, the service in restaurants is
unbelievably slow, the shops are shut half the time, the
schools are mediocre, asylum-seekers are burnt alive in
their hostels, the motorways are jammed, and only a few
years ago one of their trains crashed killing 100 people,
which makes Hatfield look like a tea party." Andrew Gimson
in: The Spectator, 8th June, 2002, p. 14
"Germany, in the opinion of many Britons, is an insufferably
dowdy country, inhabited by perpetual students with bumfluff
moustaches and satanic fetishes, who cannot even get out
of bed in the morning, who are alternately hysterical and
depressed, and whose layabout lifestyle is paid for by a
dwindling number of diligent metal-bashers who, unfortunately
for them, are expert at manufacturing heavy goods for which
there is less and less demand." Andrew Gimson in: The
Spectator, 8th June, 2002, p. 14
"What the country [Germany] needs is a constitutional monarchy."
Andrew Gimson in: The Spectator, 8th June, 2002,
p. 14
"It is true that the press's abuse of the monarch has sometimes
plumbed abysmal depths. Parts of the media are quite capable
of behaving like the scum of the earth, and we no longer
possess a self-confident officer class which can at least
attempt to horse-whip them into subservience." The Spectator,
1st June, 2002, p. 7
"We may not be the creme de la creme, but we are the creme
de la scum." John Mortimer about the British press, quoted
from: The Spectator, 1st June, 2002, p. 7
"Consistency is a much overvalued virtue in politics."
London Mayor Ken Livingstone, quoted from: The Weekly
Telegraph, issue no. 566, p. 24
"[...] EverQuest offers families a way of staying together
by slaying together." Time, May 27, 2002, p. 57
"If I were an honest man, ..." Alastair Campbell, the British
government spin doctor, quoted from: The Spectator,
May 25, 2002
"Inside every German lives a policeman" Elspeth Auer in:
The Weekly Telegraph, issue no. 565, 2002, p. 32
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