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From ‘Food and Drink’, The Spectator, 26 June 1915: The Government have been completely beaten by the trade in their attempts at prohibition. But are they justified at the present time in allowing this great waste of food to continue ? Even if in this the trade is strong enough to beat them, as it
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From ‘Cold-blooded Goodness‘, The Spectator, 26 June 1915: A young person of either sex who is wholly without sentimentality has not as a rule much heart. On the other hand, where practicality so overruns the character as to destroy all the finest feelings, it may still leave the capacity for sympathy not uninjured, but certainly
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‘We’ve had such fun paying off our children’s and grandchildren’s debts!’
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‘All right, all right. Simon says, “Scalpel.”’
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‘Great Scott, Professor Hunt has explained women!’
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‘You rang, texted, emailed and face-timed, my Lord?
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‘Have you made any nice friends?’
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‘Our vicar’s a terrible name dropper.’
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‘Dude, this is better than heaven — it’s the Cloud.’
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‘You say art. I say graffiti.’
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‘I’m upper class, but I’m immensely proud of my upper-middle-class roots.’
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‘I blame all those puffs of white smoke.’
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Free trade with Africa Sir: Nicholas Farrell suggests that a naval blockade is the only solution to Italy’s immigration crisis (‘The invasion of Italy’, 20 June). Examining the causes of the situation might identify other measures. Since the European Union effectively closed its borders to trade with Africa to protect European farmers from lower food
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The spirit of 1945 No one would have been more surprised at the sight of 100,000 people marching in London under the banner ‘End Austerity Now’ and demanding ‘Tories Out’ than Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade and briefly Chancellor of the Exchequer in Attlee’s government. — Hard though it might be
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Home Tens of thousands took part in a demonstration in London against austerity, and thousands more in other cities. Russell Brand was heckled for being too right-wing: ‘Fuck off back to Miliband,’ protestors in Parliament Square cried. David Cameron, the Prime Minister, explaining his thinking on further benefit cuts: ‘There is what I would call