#britain

The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

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Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

#britain #cent #country #developed #developed country

The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

#creators #dare #few #going #horrendous

Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#britain #great #great britain #monumental #need

Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#because #being #britain #coming #each

Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large. ↗

— William Hamilton

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Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it. ↗

— Lord Harlech

#britain #disposed #empire #historians #honoured

Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#away #britain #first #gave #much

The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#better #biggest #both #britain #each

They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date. ↗

— John Hume

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