Tim Worstall

It seems to me that any woman who calls herself a postfeminist must have kept her Wonderbra and burnt her brains, as we still have a long way to go.
Kathy Lette

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“Thick people doing thick things is not funny. Clever people doing clever things is not funny. But clever people doing thick things really is funny.”
About Top Gear.

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In her book, she recalls the day that Harrison admitted he had been sleeping with Starr’s wife, Maureen. “You know, Ringo, I’m in love with your wife,” Harrison said as they sat at Starr’s kitchen table. “Better you than someone we don’t know,” Starr shrugged.

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For some years she had been suffering from dementia.
Last line of Telegraph obituary of Elizabeth Prophet, self-styled head of one of the more eschatological US religious sects.

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While opponents may argue that this is anti-libertarian, they are in a minority.

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…the fundamental insight of classical liberalism–the idea that government best serves its citizens by limiting itself to enforcing neutral rules.
Virginia Postrel

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Whatever happens to anyone else, Mr Blair always seems to be in the lifeboat when the ship goes down.
William Rees-Mogg.

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GORDON STRACHAN, to a reporter who asked for a quick word: “Velocity.”
JOHN LAMBIE, when told a concussed player did not know who he was: “That’s great, tell him he’s Pele and send him back on.”

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…many of the world’s problems arise because so many people do not understand economics.
Arthur Seldon, age 17.

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Go for it, Ma’am. He fucked with your Parliament. I saw him.

From the creator of the great line about the future: a Birkenstock stamping on a human face, forever.

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What’s more, when it came to protecting individual rights and civil liberties, socialist societies shat dead rats.

Jane Haddam

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And then all the techie stuff: “The information revolution can give real power and control to individuals…” Heavens to Betsy, a portly Etonian in his forties finally gets his iPod working and he thinks that he’s Bill Gates.

Giles Coren on David Cameron.

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…using George Lucas as your writer instead of Rudyard Kipling is starting in a very deep hole indeed.

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The second is very good.

What made Gordon Brown a great Chancellor of the Exchequer is exactly what makes him an awful PM; the man has the charisma of ground carp.

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Besides, there’s something particularly pleasurable about going to MacDonald’s in France.

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My first interview was Jeffrey Archer in 1986 for the Wimbledon News where I started as a reporter. That is also where I met Piers Morgan. Both are criminally insane egomaniacs who really should be on anti-ego-inflammatory medication. But they are great characters and I like them both a lot.

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‘Did you know that 54 per cent of all Americans believe that the world was created 6,000 years ago? That’s 1,000 years after the Sumerians invented glue.’

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On Eliot Spitzer.

Once again, we see that a vehement moralizer is secretly a libertarian, at least in regards to his own rights.
It’s always other people’s freedom that needs to be curtailed.

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It’s true that boys who lack firm parenting and social advantages cause many of the worst problems in our communities, but, generally, if you feed and exercise male children, let them shout "bang", dismantle radios and develop a few hobbies, they’re fairly simple creatures.

Rowan Pelling.

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Imagining the SACP* having a real input into economic policy gives me a bad feeling – like imagining a remake of the movie Basic Instinct, but starring Julie Andrews.
Kelvin Kemm
 
*South African Communist Party.

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