“I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.” LongHas BeensNextBritishBritish Music Author:Leonard Slatkin
“It's my view that human dignity - an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics - resides in fact in Tory values of independence, individuality and self determination.” YearsHumansHas BeensSelfFactsValuesLeftViewsTakenDeterminationDignityIndependenceIndividualityBritishAttributesSelf DeterminationHuman DignityBritish Politics Author:Maurice Saatchi
“The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.” Has BeensPressesBritishUnfair Author:Joss Stone
“British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.” YearsHas BeensDifferentBigsInspirationComedyBritishAustralianBritish Comedy Author:Jason Gann
“I think the main big thing for me has been the acceptance from the U.S. That's still crazy to me. To come over to the U.S. and be a British girl and have all these people know who I am. It's unbelievable and it just seems to be getting better and better.” PeopleThinkingKnowsHas BeensStillsBigsSeemsGirlCrazyAcceptanceBritishWho I AmGet BetterUnbelievableBig Things Author:Cher Lloyd
“In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin Press for reissuing several works by Stefan Zweig, a brilliant Austrian writer whose work brings to mind that of his compatriot Joseph Roth... these fictions are a treat of prewar European literature” YearsMindHas BeensEndsLiteratureFictionTreatsEnglandPraisePressesBritishBrilliantNewspapersKicksDecemberYear EndPushkin Author:Sylvia Brownrigg
“The British Labour movement is today, and for many years has been, working in a narrow circle of strikes that are looked upon, not as an expedient, and not as a means of propaganda, but as an ultimate aim.” YearsMeanHas BeensTodayMovementUltimateAimBritishStrikesCirclesPropagandaLabourLabour Movement Author:Friedrich Engels
“In the field of Artificial Intelligence there is no more iconic and controversial milestone than the Turing Test, when a computer convinces a sufficient number of interrogators into believing that it is not a machine but rather is a human. It is fitting that such an important landmark has been reached at the Royal Society in London, the home of British Science and the scene of many great advances in human understanding over the centuries. This milestone will go down in history as one of the most exciting.” BelieveHumansHas BeensImportantHomeUnderstandingNumbersCenturyFieldsSceneComputerTestsMachinesExcitingBritishLondonSufficientConvinceArtificial IntelligenceArtificialRoyalControversialFittingIconicMilestoneLandmarks Author:Kevin Warwick
“No British Prime Minister of the last seventy years has been more harshly stereotyped than Stanley Baldwin. No one has been so much ignored, after the initial judgements of contemporaries had been made.” YearsHas BeensMadeLastsBritishMinistersJudgementPrimeIgnoredPrime MinisterSeventiesInitialsStanley Author:Stanley Baldwin