In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that.
During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.
I love filming in Britain.
I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.
Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.
I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.
I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.
Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
I lived in London in 1965 and 1972. I love it there and I'm always very creative in that vibe. Would love to live for awhile in ScotlandIreland and Britain. Great appreciation there for the folk scene and song crafting.
Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.
It seemed to me singularly ill-contrived for the British government to be going to war with Hitler when Hitler might have been about to attack the Russians, and even more ill-contrived that, when Hitler did attack the Russians, he had already defeated the French army. What I'm saying is that the war shouldn't have been started in September 1939. . . from the point of view of Britain, the war was really not a good thing and I would regard it as, in effect, a defeat.
Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s.
During the late war I had an infallible rule for deciding what Great Britain would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they ought to do, and to take the reverse of that as what they would assuredly do, and I can say with truth that I was never deceived.
If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement.
What is right for the family is right for Britain.
I believe something very deeply. That Britain's national interest is best served in a flexible, adaptable and open European Union and that such a European Union is best with Britain in it.
Americans are much more open than people in Britain.
I have the money and they won't get their hands on it.
I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the 80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped modernise Britain.
It is one of history's most mocking ironies that the German customs union, which set out to dominate Europe and conquer Britain in the form of Bismarckian or Hitlerian military force, has at last vanquished the victor by drawing Britain into a Zollverein which comprises Western Europe and aspires to comprise the Mediterranean as well. If the ghosts of the Hohenzollerns come back to haunt this planet, they must find a lot to laugh at.