“To pose what I think can now be called the Mrs Merton question: what was it about a $2 million book advance that led you to keep this information from Congress, and instead save it for publication/serialisation?”
― UnPresidented: Politics, Pandemics and the Race that Trumped all Others
― UnPresidented: Politics, Pandemics and the Race that Trumped all Others
“The biggest influence by far—by a country mile—was the media. Donald Trump’s presidency is a product of the free press. Not free as in freedom of expression, I mean free as unpaid for. Rallies broadcast live, tweets, press conferences, idiotic interviews, 24-7 wall-to-wall coverage, all without spending a penny. The free press gave America Trump. Right, left, moderate, tabloid, broadsheet, television, radio, Internet, Facebook—that is who elected Trump and might well elect him again.”
― Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump
― Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump
“Homesickness, the little elastic band in the subconscious that can wind up a salmon and propel it three thousand miles through strange seas, or send a million lemmings running joyfully back to an ancestral homeland which, owing to a slight kink in the continental drift, isn’t there any more – homesickness rose up inside Rincewind like a late-night prawn biriani,”
― The Light Fantastic
― The Light Fantastic
“Inside myself I’m ashamed, as I think our own system of government is seriously deficient. Parliament is dead. Government is bureaucratic. Political leadership hardly exists. We are stagnant and ossified. We are living in post-imperial delusion, with no political vibrancy, and in a climate of political debate which is outdated. It’s not just the Conservative side. Jeremy Corbyn is reviving absurd revamped socialist thought, such as wanting to nationalise everything. But our side is arguably even worse.”
― In the Thick of It
― In the Thick of It
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