Air Quote by Eddie Mair

“As of early 2016, the sixty-two richest people in the world were worth as much as the poorest 3.6 billion people! Since the world’s…

— Yuval Noah Harari

When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only…

— David McCullough

Contrary to received wisdom, the British are not an insular people in the conventional sense - far from it. For most of their early…

— Linda Colley

On our show, I've only reached out and touched about 55 guys. I think there's still about 40 million.

— Carson Kressley

A lot of the time in modern Britain, certainly in urban life, we barely have any contact at all with the people around us.

— John Lanchester

“By 1912, the British Empire had a population of more than 440 million people, of whom only 10 percent lived in the British Isles.41”

— Thomas Sowell

“In nearly every year for at least 250 years, deaths outnumbered births in London. Only the steady influx of ambitious provincials and Protestant refugees…

— Bill Bryson

In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at…

— Stephen Hawking

“Thirty million, mostly fools. [When asked the population of England]”

— Thomas Carlyle

7 Billion people, 14 Billion Faces

— Unkown

Forty-two thousand people is an attractive target for people who want to hurt us. And a ballpark that's about 6 feet, at one point,…

— Mike Quigley

We've gone from venues that hold 500 up to 3,000 on our own, so I guess we're not entirely unknown. But there is a…

— Tobias Forge