#britain

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The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.


Peter Maxwell Davies


#art #arts #britain #certainly #education

Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes Britain tick - the bridges, tunnels, power and water networks, which bind us together.


Evan Davis


#bridges #britain #civil #deadly #engineering

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.


Buchi Emecheta


#britain #deal #exist #i #many

MRSA, which is a kind of super bug mutant, is killing 10,000 people a year in Britain.


George Galloway


#bug #killing #kind #mutant #people

Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge.


Anne Campbell


#britain #cambridge #particularly #people #relevant

The 200 years when Britain and the US were the top two economies were an aberration and that will change. The decline of empires has happened much faster than folks think. I believe that gold will be a far better bet in 20 years than the dollar.


Tom Winnifrith


#believe #bet #better #britain #change

Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.


Iain Duncan Smith


#britain #businesses #chances #continue #created

The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption for individuals, but widening the opportunities and what Amartya Sen calls the 'capabilities' of all through collective action. But that means, it must mean, public non-profit initiative, even if only in redistributing private accumulation. Public decisions aimed at collective social improvement from which all human lives should gain. That is the basis of progressive policy—not maximising economic growth and personal incomes. Nowhere will this be more important than in tackling the greatest problem facing us this century, the environmental crisis. Whatever ideological logo we choose for it, it will mean a major shift away from the free market and towards public action, a bigger shift than the British government has yet envisaged. And, given the acuteness of the economic crisis, probably a fairly rapid shift. Time is not on our side.


Eric J. Hobsbawm


#britain #climate-change #economics #environmentalism #free-market

She treated Vanessa and me as if we were visiting budgerigars that needed to be fed and then put somewhere dark for the night.


Alexandra Fuller


#family #family

You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It is the country with the worst food after Finland.


Jacques Chirac


#food