Michael Atkinson

“football clubs could, at times, be heartless and calculating and weren’t to be relied on, unless you wanted your heart broken.”
― Alexei Sayle, Stalin Ate My Homework

“A Marxist historian would say that industries grew up and remained in an area because there was a plentiful supply of a certain necessary item. The existence of coal and steel in the Midlands led to the engineering industry being based there, a humid climate meant cotton was woven in Lancashire, and finance was located in the City of London because of a plentiful supply of hard-hearted and cruel individuals.”
― Alexei Sayle, Stalin Ate My Homework

“The public were not to be consulted on whether they wished to have their cities and towns torn down and rebuilt in an entirely original and untested style with no connection to what had gone before.”
― Alexei Sayle, Stalin Ate My Homework

“All right, class, now let’s bow our heads in prayer and thank God for this milk we’re drinking.’ At which point I stood up and said, ‘No, Miss Wilson, I think you’ll find that the milk comes to us via the Milk Marketing Board, a public body set up in 1933 to control the production, pricing and distribution of milk and other dairy products within the UK. It has nothing to do with the intervention of some questionable divine entity.”
― Alexei Sayle, Stalin Ate My Homework