Quotations

'I think Britain is a much, much better place than when I first came here [in 1973]. It’s more cosmopolitan and worldly, and I love that. So I was disappointed they voted to leave, but on the other hand… I keep reading these opinion pieces saying Britain shot itself in the head and I think, actually, no. Britain handled Brexit really, really well given that it was such a 50-50 thing. Where are the gilets jaunes? We can disagree ferociously but we are not going to start punching each other. Considering how finely divided the country was, I think it has been pretty civilised. It’s got a little fractious at times but… Look at the Basque separatists. Here, there weren’t any violent protests, we didn’t have to get tear gas out or rubber bullets or anything. Every-body was pretty good about it.'
Bill Bryson talking to Leaf Arbuthnot in the Spectator

Coleridge said 'the theologians tell us that souls have no sex, but I wonder. I very much wonder.'

Great quote from @RobertWargas ‘If I walk into a DC cocktail party I can instantly tell who the conservative is because he’s not saying anything.’ Too risky. https://t.co/j0h0yCob1n

— Damian Thompson (@holysmoke) May 13, 2020

Odd that in all the Coronavirus coverage and commentary (most of it utterly tedious) we have had no theological discussion of what it all means.

— Xander Lucie-Smith (@ALucieSmith) May 15, 2020