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I think public life for me has a slightly didactic role, OK.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Didactic
Public Life
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I just think there is so much irrational pessimism in the world.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Irrational
Pessimism
World Think Just
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The next Euro-elections will be a step towards a United States of Europe
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Europe
Next
United States
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The fact that Thomas Jefferson owned slaves doesn't devalue what he wrote.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Devalue
Jefferson
Owned
Slaves
Thomas
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You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Politics
Debt
Economic Recession
Way
Borrow
Cannot
Spend
Recession
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Europe tends to favor stability over democracy, America democracy over stability.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
America
Democracy
Europe
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A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Money
Real
Talking
Pretty
Here
Real Money
Soon
Trillion
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I'm going to devote myself full time to securing and then winning a referendum on leaving the E.U.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Devote
Referendum
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That's the problem with very high taxes - they don't redistribute wealth; they redistribute people.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
High Taxes
The Problem With
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There comes a point when threats become so overblown that they serve to irk rather than to frighten.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Frighten
Threats
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The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Dangerous
Moral
Rectitude
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I've absolutely no idea where Culoiseau is, but I'd imagine La Poularde de Culoiseau is some kind of chicken.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Imagine
No Idea
Absolutely
Chicken
La
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It's irresponsible to scare E.U. nationals in the U.K. by hinting that their status might change after Brexit.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Irresponsible
Scare
Brexit
Status
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After Margaret Thatcher's funeral, I spoke at a tribute meeting organised by her supporters in a pub next to St Paul's.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Funeral
Organised
Tribute
Margaret
Paul
Pub
Thatcher
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European pantywaists might keep voting for high-spending governments, but the U.S. was founded on a popular revolt against taxation.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Revolt
Taxation
Voting
Governments
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Nobody likes a smart alec. Which is why it's always better for your career to be wrong and in company rather than right and on your own.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Company
Likes
Smart
Always Your Better
Alec
Nobody
Career
Better Always Your
Wrong
Rather
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I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Andrew
Cameron
Conservative
Health Care
Leader
Party
Support
Health I Am Care
David
Fond
Spokesman
Strongly
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You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Economy
Forever
Fund
Order
Squeezing
Unprecedented
Unproductive
Carry
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There is sort of a hobbit-like element to a lot of British people. They don't want to be told something until they have worked it out for themselves.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
People Something Want
British People
Element
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The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to wade through ONS graphs or European Commission tables.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Statistics
Tables
Wade
Cast
Commission
Exactly
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The Tea Party movement and the Occupy movement were both, in a sense, complaining about the same thing, namely the use of public money to rescue failed banks.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Complaining
Public Money
Rescue
Tea Party
Tea Party Movement
Banks
Failed
Namely
Occupy
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Progressives and conservatives alike lean, unconsciously, towards particular conclusions, and then scrabble around to rationalise those conclusions to themselves.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Particular
Scrabble
Alike
Conclusions
Conservatives
Towards
Lean
Progressives
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Conservatives the world over need to grasp the difference between being pro-market and being pro-business. Sometimes the two positions happen to coincide; often they don't.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Coincide
Conservatives
Grasp
Positions
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If you vote for candidates who think it's the role of the state to provide health care, don't complain when your hospitals are as badly run as everything else run by the state.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Running
Complaining
Thinking
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It's not often one gets the chance to write this but, when it comes to the bailouts, especially the euro bailouts, Marxists are right. Working people are being forced to support a privileged few.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Euro
Privileged
Forced
Working People
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Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Ability
Chamber
Electorate
One Thing
Politician
Prime
Prime Minister
Craft
Different Thing
Essential
Mastered
Minister
Namely
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The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Best Practices
Citizens
Fewer
Law
Spread
Allow
Encourages
Initiatives
Lower Taxes
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The complexity of a tax system is every bit as damaging to competitiveness as the overall tax rate. The more convoluted the tax code becomes, the more time we have to take off work to comply with it.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Code
Competitiveness
Complexity
Convoluted
Rate
Tax System
Tax
Time Work More
Becomes
Damaging
Work Time More
Overall
Tax Code
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Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
British
Free Trade
People
Trade Zone
Tunes
Zone
Day Free People
British People
Sell
Eu
Per
Remain
Tune
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A minister is supposed to be there to remind his permanent officials that they work for the rest of us. If, instead, he becomes the cabinet champion and public spokesman for his department, democracy is vitiated.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Champion
Democracy
Department
Officials
Permanent
Becomes
Cabinet
Rest
Instead
Minister
Remind
Spokesman
Supposed
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The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Anecdotes
Book
Cracks
Pursuit
Crack
Eu
Nutshell
Page
Virtually
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The populists always fail in their own terms. Let me be more specific, the protectionists always fail. They always end up delivering the sharpest fall in living standards to the people who are their biggest supporters.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Delivering
Standards
Always Me People
Me Living People
Sharpest
Supporters
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On any measure, Spain's bank rescue has been a disaster. A hundred million euros have been added to the national debt, ten-year bonds are at a record high and the country's credit rating has been downgraded three notches.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Credit
Debt
Disaster
National Debt
Rating
Rescue
Spain
Added
Bank
Bonds
Credit Rating
Measure
Notch
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When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Storm
Weather
Party Line
Repeat
Wooden
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One way to think of the tax system is as a massive Swiss cheese. Each hole is an exemption created by a chancellor in pursuit of good headlines - a hole waiting to be filled by the clever accountants who work for Starbucks or Jimmy Carr.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Accountants
Cheese
Clever
Exemption
Filled
Headlines
Jimmy
Massive
Pursuit
Starbucks
Swiss
Tax System
Waiting
Tax
Chancellor
Created
Work Good Way
Hole
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In my experience, Eurosceptics are likelier to have lived abroad and to have entered fully into other cultures than Euro-enthusiasts, many of whom seem to have latched on to the E.U. as a way of compensating for their poor language skills.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Abroad
Cultures
Entered
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Foreign writers - especially Germans - often feel that Shakespeare is really one of them, that he was somehow accidentally born in the wrong country. In much the same way, leftists sense in their bones that he was a radical, rightists that he was a Tory.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Bones
Radical
Accidentally
Country Way Feel
Germans
Shakespeare
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The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
British
Cost
Debt
Equity
Negative
Owing
Pounds
Prime Minister
Run
Educating
Minister
Servicing
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The idea seems to be to use the next treaty talks to strike a grand bargain: Britain will be helpful to those states wishing to establish a fiscal union among themselves if, in exchange, we can amicably derogate from the aspects of the EU which we dislike.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Britain
Dislike
Next
Seems
States
Among
Aspects
Bargain
Exchange
Establish
Eu
Fiscal
Grand
Union
Strike
Talks
Themselves
Treaty
Wishing
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The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Bible
British
British Museum
Finest
Gold
Human Intelligence
Islands
Museums
Collection
Arrived
Complete
Contents
Cover
Designed
Island
William
Hide
Images
Museum
Pink
Shakespeare
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Every human on the planet is descended from both slaves and slave owners. What makes Britain unusual is not that we engaged in the disgusting trade, but that we eliminated it. Our political institutions led us, earlier than many, to the conclusion that freedom was the highest virtue.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Conclusion
Engaged
Owners
Political Institutions
Slave
Unusual
Virtue
Descended
Earlier
Eliminated
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The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed around for each man to mark his favourite lines.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Favourite
Gentle
Lines
Mark
Peculiar
Condition
Each Man
Gather
Island
Occasion
Passed
Plays
Prisoners
Shakespeare
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I am, 'Guardian' readers keep telling me, a xenophobe. Never mind that I speak French and Spanish, that I love Europe, that I've lived a high proportion of my life abroad. The fact that I oppose the political amalgamation of the European Union's states is ipso facto proof that I dislike foreigners.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Dislike
Foreigners
Guardian
Proof
Abroad
French
Facto
Oppose
Union
Readers
Spanish
Telling
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Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Bingo
Bloggers
Briefing
Dozen
Headlines
Interesting
Next Day
Political
Reporters
Thousand
Dictated
Lobby
Minister
Thereby
Tickled
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The further left you are, the more your concern for the underdog crowds out everything else, leading you to overlook inconsistencies. You might, for example, argue for immigration and multiculturalism in the UK, but not in the Amazon. You might demand equality before the law and, at the same time, gender quotas.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Equality
Concern
Crowds
Demand
Gender
Immigration
Multiculturalism
Underdog
Argue
Everything Else
For Example
Overlook
Uk
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Whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers - our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of the world, our Brussels budget contributions, the tiny part of our economy dependent on sales to the EU, the vast part subjected to EU regulation - Euro-enthusiasts quickly shift their ground and start harrumphing about influence.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Brussels
Debate
Deficit
Dependent
Economy
Influence
Numbers
Regulation
Surplus
Tiny
Budget
Contributions
Vast
Eu
Rest
Quickly
Sales
Shift
Subjected
Whenever
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New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language.
Daniel Hannan / British Politician
Circumstances
Father
Grateful
Political Prisoners
Precise
Presidential
Resolute
Unfriendly
Addressing
Aide
Anticipated
Chambers
Fathers
Shakespeare
Speaks
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