“Opium had been prescribed as laudanum, a liquid ‘medicine’ that was also very popular among working-class men and women struggling to adapt to the industrial revolution.” — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
“The one economic medicine so bitter that no minister in the seventies had thought of trying it was duly uncorked and poured into the… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
“They then named one day after the Moon and another after the Sun, giving them a seven-day week. Seven was regarded as a perfect number; and the Sumerian week is of course our week, its days still named in the Sumerian fashion, though with Roman or Old English words. Saturn becomes Saturday, Sol (‘the sun’ in Latin) becomes Sunday. Luna,… — Andrew Marr Copy Share
“Gutenberg had died after inventing Europe’s first real printing press. The Chinese and Koreans had long used wood-block printing, and even ceramic printing.” — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems and dealt with them. How did it happen that a cabinet of such brilliant, such clever and self-confident people achieved so little? In part, it was the effect of the whirling court politics demonstrated by… — Andrew Marr Copy Share
“For Reuter, it was the last act of the Great War and something which reduced, if it did not remove, the shame of defeat… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
Clearly the human story is one of acceleration. There has been a Moore curve in terms of the number of people alive on the… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
“My dream is that by returning to our not-so-distant history, I might remind readers why, with all its faults, this is a lucky place… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
In the end, does it really matter if newspapers physically disappear? Probably not: the world is always changing. But does it matter if organisations… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
Verbally, I'm quite fast on my feet. I could embarrass or anger most people if I wanted to. — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
The business of funding digging journalists is important to encourage. It cannot be replaced by bloggers who don't have access to politicians, who don't… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
