Britain: the land of embarrassment and breakfast.

The land of embarrassment and breakfast.

— Julian Barnes

In the UK and the US especially you've got a lot of throwaway artists who have their 40 million dancers and they do their…

— Jamelia

“It is nine o'clock, and London has breakfasted. Some unconsidered tens of thousands have, it is true, already enjoyed with what appetite they might…

— George Augustus Sala

More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the EU.

— John Hutton

It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a…

— Jonathan Coe

“It’s not wheel science… just aim and fire.”

— Evelyn Winters

There's quite a stigma attached to country music in the UK - but I kind of enjoy that.

— Jade Bird

But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into…

— John Hutton

“If crisis was a cake, then our politicians are globally its baker.”

— Steve Merrick

“The timing of this sudden interest in the plight of Iraqi women cannot be overemphasized. For decades, many Iraqi women activists in the US…

— Nadje Al-Ali

We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I…

— Holly Johnson

“The trouble with the English was that they were English: damn cold fish! - Living underwater most of the year, in days the colour…

— Salman Rushdie

“It is the principal paradox of this period that the only sphere of our economic system in which government intervention is urgently necessary is…

— Oswald Mosley

“The fashion look of teens and twentysomethings -once so cutting edge- is now, like most of the music played on the radio, a matter…

— Phil Strongman

“Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl's hair. And I wish…

— Zadie Smith