42 quotes found
"The speaker then said he felt inclined for a bit of fucking."
"No conqueror returning from a victory on the battlefield had come adorned with nobler laurels."
"IT IS A MORAL ISSUE"
"Top people take The Times."
"Too briefly treated is the story of the paper’s virile early days, when the Controller used to send a retired Irish officer round to the homes of gentlemen with erring wives with the threat that All Would Be Revealed unless a sensible financial understanding between the parties could be arranged. "Suppression money", as it was termed, helped to get John Walter I's Daily Universal Register off the ground. I've always found it a pity that Times editors have become so coy about these beginnings (which Harold Evans does at least refer to), especially now. "What would you pay to get all of Lady Fuddington off page three, sport?" Or as John Walter’s man Finey used to say, pocketing the guineas, "Give me a few more, and by St Patrick I will knock out the brains of anyone in our office who dares ever whisper your name.""
"I do not think we have a free press in Britain today. There is not a single newspaper that I can buy, not one in Britain that reflects my political position. And The Times, dare I say to you, is really disreputable. It does not print truthfully and faithfully what happens ... it is a political propaganda instrument like The Sun, but it is printed in rather better print and rather shrewder language."
"In Dawson's eyes, it was the moral duty of every British newspaper to promote harmonious relations between Britain and the new Germany. He had no compunction about toning down or spiking outright the dispatches of his newspaper's experienced Berlin correspondent, Norman Ebbut. Some British foreign correspondents, like Sefton Delmer of the Daily Express, were positively enthusiastic about the new Germany. Not Ebbut. To him, Hitler was nothing more than a 'Sergeant Major with a gift of the gab and a far-away look in his eyes'. Despite warnings from the Nazis to mute his criticism, and frequent raids on his apartment, Ebbut wrote regularly on (among other subjects) the new regime's persecution of dissidents within the Protestant churches. As early as November 1934 he was moved to protest about editorial interference with his copy, giving twelve examples of how his stories had been cut to remove critical references to the Nazi regime. He complained bitterly to his American friend William Shirer that his editors did 'not want to hear too much of the bad side of Nazi Germany'; The Times had been 'captured by pro-Nazis in London'. By contrast, articles by Lord Lothian were prominently displayed."
"Jim Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; the Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country, and the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is."
"STICK IT UP YOUR JUNTA"
"FREDDIE STARR ATE MY HAMSTER - Allegations about comedian Freddie Starr"
"IT'S WALL OVER"
"MRS T-EARS"
"IF KINNOCK WINS TODAY WILL THE LAST PERSON IN BRITAIN PLEASE TURN OUT THE LIGHTS"
"IT WAS THE SUN WOT WON IT"
"UP YOURS DELORS"
"YANKS 2 PLANKS 0!"
"THAT'S YER ALLOTMENT"
"DINIZ IN THE OVEN"
"QUEEN HAS A RUBBER DUCK AND IT WEARS A CROWN"
"ZIP ME UP BEFORE YOU GO GO"
"SPLIFF CLUB SEVEN"
"CLOBBA SLOBBA: OUR BOYS BATTER BUTCHER OF SERBIA IN NATO BLITZ"
"IS THIS THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN BRITAIN"
"IS THIS THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN EUROPE"
"NAIL THE BASTARD"
"BONKERS BRUNO LOCKED UP"
"UP YOURS SEÑORS"
"CHIRAC EST UN VER"
"SHIP SHIP HOORAY"
"FROM HITLER YOUTH TO PAPA RATZI"
"TYRANT'S IN HIS PANTS"
"ONE DOWN THREE TO GO"
"KILL AN ARGIE WIN A METRO"
"SCOTT OF PANTARTICA"
"Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits."
"India broods the horror of the cold-blooded massacres by the Moplahs, still daily showing how Hindus fare in the hands of fanatical Mohammedans. The public, obscurely but rightly, connect the holocaust of Hindu lives and property with Khilafat preachers and realize that the rule even of the arrogant British is better than no rule."
"We have grounded our new editions in the qualities readers value most in Guardian journalism: clarity, in a world where facts should be sacred but are too often overlooked; imagination, in an age in which people yearn for new ideas and fresh alternatives to the way things are."
"We want the Guardian to play a leading role in reporting on the environmental catastrophe. [...] We will continue our longstanding record of powerful environmental reporting, which is known around the world for its quality and independence. [...] We will report on how environmental collapse is already affecting people around the world, including during natural disasters and extreme weather events. [...] We will use language that recognises the severity of the crisis we're in. [...]"
"This is the moment for truth"
"Nor can I say that the non-Conformist Conscience has never disappointed me. At one time it was the backbone of this country, nobly presented as it was in old days by the Manchester Guardian."
"We talk a lot about what's wrong with the US media. Everyone here has access to a better option, the UK-based Guardian, which has neither the timidities nor the right-leaning pretenses of neutrality; it stands proudly on its 203-year progressive history. Proud to write for it."