“If you do the things that Britain needs to do - namely, withdraw from NATO, get rid of the bomb, and stop being aligned with one side of the Cold War - then presumably the run on the pound, the result in the stock exchanges of the world, will be fairly catastrophic for the economy. But some sort of political realignment is plainly what this country needs.” IfsWorldNeedsWarCountryRunningPoliticalSidesResultsEconomyColdBritainBombsPoundsCold WarNatoStock Exchange Author:David Hare
“What has become clear is that Britain cannot trust the Conservatives to run the economy. Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.” KnowsRunningEconomyClearLet MeBritainFavourApprenticeshipNovices Author:Gordon Brown
“I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.” WorldRunningEarthArtistEnergyTaughtRedFlowRoundsFranceCaliforniaBritainJapanAustraliaVeinsEnergy And Life Book:Midsummer Snowballs Source: Midsummer Snowballs
“When I learnt, however, that in 1911 there had been twenty-one regular feminist periodicals in Britain, that there was a feminist book shop, a woman's press, and a woman's bank run by and for women, I could no longer accept that the reason I knew almost nothing about women of the past was because there were so few of them, and they had done so little.” LittlesBookReasonDoneRunningPastAcceptingTwentiesPressesFeministBritainShopsSexismTwenty One Author:Dale Spender