{"quotes":[{"text":"As long as you know 'to let' means to rent and not a place to pee, you’re all set to travel in the UK. The lifts and the boots and everything else don’t really matter.","author":"Tucker Elliot","tags":["9-11","education","england","military","students","teaching","travel","united-kingdom"],"id":96123,"author_id":"Tucker+Elliot"},{"text":"Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper and lower classes unless they set each other a good example. But I shouldn't pretend that the consensus itself was any of my concern. It was absurd and slightly despicable, in the first decade of Thatcher and Reagan, to hear former and actual radicals intone piously against 'the politics of confrontation.' I suppose that, if this collection has a point, it is the desire of one individual to see the idea of confrontation kept alive.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["confrontation","england","margaret-thatcher","oscar-wilde","political-radicalism","politics","ronald-reagan","social-class","social-structure-of-the-uk","the-importance-of-being-earnest","united-kingdom","united-states"],"id":161662,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"The Chilcot report is a revelation of injustice under the cloak of Aid. The Chilcot report is a sorry report on the current state of humanity. So the ultimate question here is – what are we going to achieve out of the sorry reports when “sorry” has no meaning in action?","author":"Nilantha Ilangamuwa","tags":["diplomacy","iraq","tony-blair","united-kingdom","war"],"id":178078,"author_id":"Nilantha+Ilangamuwa"},{"text":"Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine have found out by being on the edge of conversations where Americans assumed no Englishmen were listening.And it is the English, specifically, who are the targets of this. Few Americans have heard of Wales. All of them have heard of Ireland and many of them think they are Irish. Scotland gets a sort of free pass, especially since Braveheart re-established the Scots' anti-English credentials among the ignorant millions who get their history off the TV.","author":"Peter Hitchens","tags":["accents","americans","anti-british-sentiment","braveheart","britons","eavesdropping","history","international-relations","ireland","irish","paranoia","princess-diana","scotland","scots","television","uk-us-relations","united-kingdom","united-states","wales"],"id":211357,"author_id":"Peter+Hitchens"},{"text":"The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.","author":"Johann Hari","tags":["barack-obama","britain","elizabeth-ii","monarchy","monarchy-of-the-uk","postage-stamps","republicanism","united-kingdom","united-states"],"id":228392,"author_id":"Johann+Hari"},{"text":"I'm so patriotic, I think every British kid should have a chance to grow up to be our head of state.","author":"Johann Hari","tags":["monarchy","monarchy-of-the-uk","patriotism","republicanism","united-kingdom"],"id":258265,"author_id":"Johann+Hari"},{"text":"If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us anything, it is that supposedly worthy displays of democracy in action can actually do more harm than good. Witness a nation now more divided; an intergenerational schism in the making; both a governing and opposition party torn to shreds from the inside; infinitely more complex issues raised than satisfactory solutions provided. It begs the question 'Was it really all worth it' ?","author":"Alex 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me I do understand and I am disgusted by the idea that we should aim for any less for a child from a poor background than a rich one.","author":"David Cameron","tags":["conservative-party-uk","david-cameron","england","equality","poverty","united-kingdom"],"id":297544,"author_id":"David+Cameron"},{"text":"Nice mix of Tory MPs saying this issue shouldn't be used for petty political pointscoring, \u0026 Tory MPs trying to score petty political points.","author":"Andy Zaltzman","tags":["2011","britain","news-international-phone-hacking","politics","tories","twitter","united-kingdom"],"id":314908,"author_id":"Andy+Zaltzman"},{"text":"The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom that results applies only to them. The many simply have to work harder, in conditions that grow ever more insecure, to enrich the few. Democratic politics, which purports to enrich the many, is actually in the pocket of those bankers, media barons and other moguls who run and own everything.","author":"Charles Moore","tags":["2011","banks","capitalism","democracy","economic-inequality","economics","freedom","labour","media","politics","rupert-murdoch","social-class","united-kingdom","wealth"],"id":326483,"author_id":"Charles+Moore"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}