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From ‘John Hus’, The Spectator, 3 July 1915: Here and there we have indications that this titanic struggle has not led the Czechs to renounce their hatred of all that is German. The misfortune of Bohemia has ever been her geographical position. As an outpost of the Slav races only the mountain ranges with which
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‘I’m not sure that shade is right for you — let’s try something a bit more subtle.’
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‘We’ve brought euros, drachmas, and a casefull of brightly coloured beads.’
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‘It’s a nightmare living in a place while you do it up.’
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‘I hear there’s £12 billion knocking around somewhere.’
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‘It’s a bit old-fashioned, but this is Network Rail.’
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‘And he went down on bended knee-protector — and proposed.’
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‘Actually, I’m not “another bloody migrant”, I was born here.’
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‘I don’t know how he is, we haven’t talked since the wraparound telly arrived.’
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‘Relationship issues… family issues… sexual issues… financial issues… alcohol issues… personality issues… There! Now you know everyone.’
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How to fix Detroit Sir: When I last flew over my native Detroit five years ago, vast tracts of it still resembled Machu Picchu. From the ground, it was little better; in what had been a prosperous Italian-American neighbourhood when I lived there in 1964, there were only five houses left standing. Stephen Bayley (Arts,
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Bank job Should we buy shares in companies which print banknotes in expectation of one getting to print millions of drachma notes? — In May, according to the ECB, there were a total of 17.6bn euro notes in circulation. Given that Greece accounts for approximately 2.5% of the GDP of the eurozone, 441m of these
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That democracy is a superior form of government to any other goes without saying. But in order to function, it has to be conducted in such a way and on such a scale as to ensure that the people or their elected representatives are making decisions based on genuine alternatives. With this week’s decision by
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Home At least 30 British people were among 38 shot dead at a beach resort at Sousse in Tunisia by Seifeddine Rezgui, aged 23, a Tunisian acting for the Islamic State and said to have been trained in Libya. Soldiers, emergency services and 1,000 police took part in a two-day exercise in London simulating a
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