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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)

by J.K. Rowling

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The First Casualty by Ben Elton

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‘A bayonet is a weapon with a worker on both ends.’

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“In some respects modern journalism has lost its way. The need for speed has damaged the culture of thoughtful reporting. And we have sadly confused the lofty concept of balance with equivalence. Put simply, we place too much importance on giving equal time to contrasting views without any consideration of whether either of the views merits the time allocated.”
― Trevor McDonald, An Improbable Life: The Autobiography

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“Be on your guard whenever you hear the words ‘fake news’: it may be nothing more than the new term of abuse for inconvenient facts.”
― Trevor McDonald, An Improbable Life: The Autobiography

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“Having defeated global fascism, a ruined country rebuilt itself from rubble thanks to the most progressive government in our history and the talents of its children, kids raised by and large outside of the establishment and the elite on a diet of orange juice, free school milk, NHS specs, Watch with Mother, public libraries, art schools, galleries and all the other benefits of a forward-looking state and a commitment to the public good not the private profit.”
― Stuart Maconie, The Nanny State Made Me: A Story of Britain and How to Save it

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“Humble goals and modest expectations are more likely to be fulfilled than are utopian dreams.”
― Dean Koontz, Red Rain

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“What was so terrible about properly funded hospitals, student grants, decent working conditions, affordable houses, trains that ran for convenience not profit, water that poured from the tap whose function was to slake your thirst not to make shareholders a dividend. What exactly was so wicked about public libraries, free eye tests and council houses? We may be coming to realise that the people who complain about the nanny state are the people who had nannies.”
― Stuart Maconie, The Nanny State Made Me: A Story of Britain and How to Save it

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