When I was a kid in Woking, every week you went to the football dance, and every week the top kids would be wearing something different. You were constantly trying to catch up with them – which you could never do because, by the time you’d saved up enough to buy the item, they’d moved on to something else. That’s the whole Mod thing, I suppose. Paul Weller Read Quote
John Boehner was and is an unprincipled ward-heeler who simply couldn’t weather the transition of the Republican Party from a corporatist party with a sizable conservative base to a purely conservative party. Alex Pareene Read Quote
Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things. Idris Elba Read Quote
I try not to think too much about my writing process – I tend to feel my way forward and find more insights that way. Nick Petrie Read Quote
As we leave the E.U., the U.K. can turn its back on the austerity policies that have been the hallmark of the euro area. John Redwood Read Quote
When I was negotiating with our foreign allies, I knew I had to do so in good faith, or trust would be broken – and those allies wouldn’t be there when we really needed them. Elissa Slotkin Read Quote
I remember as a kid being asked if I was Jewish or Irish. I said, like the glib little 15-year-old I was, ‘You can be both.’ Feeling very pleased with myself. Before they smacked me. Lenny Abrahamson Read Quote
Shooting guns is not something I would do in my spare time. I really don’t understand why Americans can purchase guns so easily and why they use them for sporting purposes. Lena Headey Read Quote
