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From ‘The Racing Problem’, The Spectator, 20 March 1915: We are not temperance fanatics. We do not suggest the prohibition of the public sate of intoxicants in order to penalize any one or to punish people for having sold alcohol in the past. We do not regard either the sale or the consumption of alcohol
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From ‘How We Are Blockading Germany’, The Spectator, 20 March 1915: We are, indeed, fighting against a thoroughly unscrupulous enemy, and we have to consider how we can bring the war to an end in the shortest possible time. If we shorten the war, we shall save life—the lives of the non-combatants at sea who
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‘Don’t laugh — they’re running away to Syria.’
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‘We really don’t know which way it’s going to go.’
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‘Did the ice move for you?’
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‘So, did you go on those clinical trials in the end?’
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‘They all come over here claiming child benefit.’
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Cows that produce long-life milk
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‘I’m worried this plain packaging will put people off cocaine.’
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‘They say we might get more interest from England if we rename it Cyclone Clarkson.’
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‘You’ll love this place, it’s a dump.’
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‘It’s so unfair! All my friends are going to Syria. You won’t let me do anything!’
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The Goldsmith effect Sir: Much as I admire filial loyalty, I cannot allow Zac Goldsmith’s article about his father to go uncorrected (‘My dad saved the pound’, 28 February). Sir James Goldsmith was a formidable campaigner against the European Union and the euro currency, but at no point did he alter government policy. Zac Goldsmith
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Cooking statistics Ed Miliband was photographed in a miserable kitchen, but it turned out to be only a snack preparation room which he has in addition to a large kitchen downstairs. What is the state of the nation’s kitchens? — The average size in England, according to official data, is 11 square metres. Five per