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" I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character. "
John Major
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" If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years. "
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" My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s. "
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" There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created. "
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" The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election. "
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" The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it. "
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