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If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when they are making what they believe to be an urgent appointment.

— Claud Cockburn A Discord of Trumpets (1956)

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There is nothing quite so terrifying as a mad sheep.

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A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.

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Since becoming a journalist I had often heard the advice to "believe nothing until it has been officially denied".

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He [Brendan Bracken] had been upset by my observation that a wartime Minister of Information was compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.

A devout and serious Christian, she was often bothered by what she read of socialists because she could not, instantly and absolutely, see where they were so wrong. To her horrified ear, they kept sounding as though they had ideas rather like Christ's.

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