Time Quote by Daniel Hannan

“This is also why Anglo-American achievements cannot be seen in isolation from their ambiguous consequences and victims elsewhere; why many Anglo-American assumptions, derived from…

— Pankaj Mishra

“I had long since realised that if there was greatness in Britain, then it lay in its everyday citizens, and not in its institutions.”

— Nikesh Shukla

“I am afraid that as a nation we tend to over-organise. Abroad that passes for efficiency.”

— John le Carré

“...you know as well as I do that, individually, the English are very estimable and frequently generous, but that, once banded together to form…

— Maurice Dekobra

“Future historians, pondering changes in British society from the 1980s onwards, will struggle to account for the following curious fact. Although British business enterprises…

— Stefan Collini

“Then, as now, nobody talked about the legacy of Empire. Britain had colonised, owned, occupied or interfered with half the world. We had carved…

— Jeanette Winterson

To collude in the minimisation of British history on the grounds of its imagined irrelevance to our rebranded national future, or from a suspicion…

— Simon Schama

“Institutions are lengthening shadows of strong individuals.”

— George Will

“The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate.”

— Alan Beattie

“I am not too worried about the many changes in today's society, but I am rather overly concerned about societies refusal to change from…

— Lawrence Sankar

“It will not be believed that such a force as Great Britain has employed in this country could be baffled in their plan of…

— John Ripin Miller

“They yearn for the security of a lost age. Just as America believed it had entered a post-racial era, Britain persuaded itself it had…

— Edward Luce