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I'm often amazed at the way politicians – who spend hours poring over opinion poll results in a desperate attempt to discover what the public thinks – are certain they know precisely what God's views are on everything.

— Simon Hoggart

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Peter Mandelson is the only man I know who can skulk in broad daylight.

He is the first man for 20 years to make the Presidency a part-time job, a means of filling up a few of the otherwise blank days of retirement.

Mr Arbuthnot did not respond, but sat with a thin, weak smile, like winter sunshine upon a coffin lid.

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

The theory then is that while the economy continues to flounder under - the Conservatives (the current crop of Ministers reminds me of Edward Scissorhands trying to make balloon animals), they can get in a leader more to their liking.

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