" ... it seems clear – to me, at least – that both Labour and the Conservatives are in the narrative business, as distinct from the business of good governance"
When the Reform Party lose Julia Heartless Bastard.
from Talk TV last night
JHB: "You would leave asylum seekers to drown in the channel?"
Ben Habib: "Absolutely"
JHB: "That is not a policy that a civilised country should endorse"
BH: "Why is that uncivilised?"
JHB: "Because we don't leave people to drown.. I don't want these people here, but I wouldn't leave them to drown.. I don't think anyone in the border force or Royal Navy that would do that"
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops"