quotes

in monday’s independent newspaper bruce “the brute” anderson is seen to say “nicotine kills far more old etonians than cannabis does.”

i like the quote because at last i have been shown a justification for the smoking industry that is beyond question.

anderson agrees with me that drugs should be legalised, but he points out that cameron faces an image problem with the large c conservatives – the flog ‘em and hang ‘em brigade. this is because cameron wants to make the tories soft and cuddly and secondly because now cameron is seen to have “had a small problem with law and order”. yet those tory faithful fawn over jeffery archer – who has not only broken the law but has committed sins against literature.

meanwhile over at the observer in the letters page this could be seen “when i asked my neighbour's wife to be my guest at my fair lady in drury lane, she recoiled as if i had asked her to a wrestling match.” this was in response to an article the previous week by henry porter (tolerating intolerance is still this country’s besetting sin)

now i confess i haven’t read the article and i will save that for tomorrow, the reaction does seem to herald mr. porter as being brave for saying some home truths about question of muslim integration and such like. it does seem churlish to point out that melanie philips book, londonistani, seems to be saying the same thing and has been out for quite some while.
perhaps it is just that the home truths have to come from those who think the same way we do and because they have said it, it allows the rest of us to agree.

but back to the quote – next time she will know to take them to see the wwe……