All Cabinet Ministers and other senior ministers are still sworn in as Privy Counsellors for life. The oath (which dates back to… — Clive Ponting Copy Share Image
High national emotions are permissible when a soccer team is playing precisely because they are impermissible at most other times. There aren't,… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
"Nationwide" featured an amazing collection of apprentice impersonators. From all over Britain, schoolchildren materialised via local studios to give us their imitations… — Clive James Copy Share Image
In the old days it would have been a relatively simple matter to have checked Hitler's territorial ambitions. All you'd have needed… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Upon my return from the army to Baltimore in the winter of 1777, I sat next to John Adams in Congress, and… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“The great expanding centre of ‘inner Britain’, London, did not build ships but it built aeroplanes, it did not mine coal but… — David Edgerton Copy Share Image
It had the effect of cementing the Anglo-American alliance. What's the good of having bases if when you want to use them… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it:… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Though the island of Great Britain exhibits but a small spot upon the map of the globe, it makes a splendid appearance… — John Newton Copy Share Image
I've done panel shows, which I enjoy, and on those you're recording half-an-hour of TV and sometimes they film for two hours.… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, but the streets were… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I consider the war of America against Britain as the country's war, the public's war, or the war of the people in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I'll negotiate with toughness, and with great attention to detail to get the best possible deal for Britain. It's only when we… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
In the States everyone aspires to be middle class. It's so engrained into the American psyche: As long as you work hard… — Nigel Cole Copy Share Image
Britain's place in the world is one uniquely suited to thriving in the complex new reality of global politics. We are a… — Priti Patel Copy Share Image
I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important,… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
I must be absolutely clear about this. Britain cannot accept the present situation on the budget. It is demonstrably unjust. It is… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“I know it is said in missionary meetings that we conquered India to raise the level of the Indians. That is cant.… — William Joynson-Hicks Copy Share Image
I quite enjoy fame, especially when you go to conventions in America where they treat you like a god with stretch limos… — Sylvester McCoy Copy Share Image
872, Ivar, King of the Northmen of all Ireland and Britain , ended his life." He had conquered Mercia and East Anglia.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I look upon Virginia as a rib taken from Britain's side... While they both proceed as living under the marriage-compact, this Eve… — Alexander Spotswood Copy Share Image
In the 21st century, we face new and more intense global competition, spanning the ambitious and industrious economies from Latin America to… — Dominic Raab Copy Share Image
The transition to a low-carbon economy will be one of the defining issues of the 21st century. This plan sets out a… — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold. Across… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
Over the years, Britain has made her own, unique contribution to Europe. We have provided a haven to those fleeing tyranny and… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
The proliferation of state concealed carry laws has evidently reduced the rate of violent street crime to a considerable extent. When the… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
The irony is that we're really good at comedy in Britain, but for some reason, we make very few comedy films. And… — Alice Lowe Copy Share Image
I wrote about the life of a housing officer in Britain, in a pretty rough area of London. Maybe it was because… — Ben Richards Copy Share Image
An unprecedented number of uniformed males, marching, parading and engaging in mock battles in every region of Great Britain brought a pleasant… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“In Britain, the biggest mistake you can make is judging the weather by looking at the sky out your window. The unpredictable… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
Australia is my birth home, so it will always be a home of some sort. But I'm very happy, very pleased to… — Johanna Konta Copy Share Image
I would like to invite the citizens of Great Britain and the citizens of the U.S. and the citizens of the world… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
In Western Civilization - America and Britain - if you see people talking and it becomes an argument and voices are raised,… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason,… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Germany's potential makes up about 20% of the EU's overall economic power, including Great Britain. The German army is by no means… — Jaroslaw Kaczynski Copy Share Image
The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed,… — June Callwood Copy Share Image
For America, Britain has never been more than a strategic player, and when it suits them to use us, then there's been… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
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