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We're at great risk of dying of niceness [...] I hate niceness.

— David Starkey

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History is about arrogance, vanity and vapidity — who better than me to present it?

"By their fruits you shall know them." I always thought Jesus was a rotten theologian, but he is jolly good at politics.

Freedom of speech wasn’t won by being nice, it has been won by struggle with religion.

English national identity is too important to be left to the loons of the BNP and the EDL [English Defence League].

If you think about it, Alex Salmond is a democratic Caledonian Hitler, although some would say Hitler was more democratically elected.

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