Death Quote by Simon Jenkins

““On his death even The Times remarked that, ‘never was an individual less regretted by his fellow creatures than this deceased king’.””

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Every generation has its war. I have just been reminded of mine. It ended in 1989, 43 years after it began, the longest war…

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Without history we are infants. Ask what binds the British Isles more closely to America than to Europe and only history gives a reply.…

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I can think of very few science books I've read that I've called useful. What they've been is wonderful. They've actually made me feel…

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Nowhere in politics is there such a mismatch between public and private realm as in transport. Everyone on the M6 last weekend would have…

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An Englishman's car is his castle on wheels.

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