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Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.
Cynthia Payne
Change
Sex
Action
Trial
Archaic
Determined
Laws
Second
Britain
Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.
David Attenborough
Government
Monopoly
Broadcaster
Television
License
Only
Operated
Course
Same
Which
Grant
Actually
Started
Britain
By confirming the importance of politics and politicians in Britain, we can build from the bottom up and begin to reverse the worrying anti-politics trend, which will empower the elite technocrats and leave defenceless the man or woman in the street with a mere vote to cast.
David Blunkett
Politics
Man
Vote
Woman
Trend
Will
Build
Politicians
Worrying
Cast
Bottom
Mere
Importance
Empower
Leave
Reverse
Up
Begin
Confirming
Which
Street
Elite
Britain
We must look to an open, tolerant, inclusive England, which embraces the values of a Britain that still leads the world in terms of an open democracy, as well as an understanding of the needs for responsibilities and obligations to run alongside the affirmation of individual rights.
David Blunkett
Needs
Democracy
Rights
Obligations
World
Values
Understanding
Inclusive
Responsibilities
Run
Must
Embraces
Individual
Open
Individual Rights
Leads
Alongside
Look
Terms
Well
Still
Affirmation
Which
England
Tolerant
Britain
Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and structures to secure a successful currency for the long term.
David Cameron
Long
Single
Secure
Structures
Long-Term
Term
Governance
Currency
Going
Successful
Eurozone
Right
Britain
Need
I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.
David Cameron
Success
Alone
Time
Me
Nation
Way
Say
Those
Independent
About
No Question
Could
No Time
Know
Make
First-Hand
Go
Question
Scotland
Contribution
Whether
Who
Britain
It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable.
David Cameron
Me
Relationship
Others
Would
Would-Be
Outlandish
Seem
More
Unreasonable
Steps
Make
Comfortable
Does
Which
Inherently
Union
European
European Union
Britain
Needed
Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.
David Cameron
Independence
Characterized
Above
Openness
Just
Britain
I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.
David Cameron
Better
Too
Deal
Am
Just
Want
Europe
Britain
British
I would be heartbroken if I ever thought that people in the Jewish community thought that Britain was no longer a safe place for them.
David Cameron
People
Safe Place
Thought
Community
Would
Would-Be
Longer
Safe
Heartbroken
Place
Them
Ever
Britain
Jewish
Jewish Community
I believe very strongly that staying in is the right answer for Britain. And I haven't pulled my punches, I've fought this campaign the only way I know how, which is to lead from the front, to be clear about what I believe, to be clear about what the consequences are.
David Cameron
Believe
Consequences
Punches
Way
Staying
About
Strongly
Only
Lead
Clear
Know
Answer
How
Campaign
Very
Front
Which
Fought
Right
Right Answer
Britain
Pulled
One of the reasons Elton and I entered into our partnership - the first day it became legal in Britain to do so - is that we felt it was an opportunity to protect ourselves with official recognition of our relationship.
David Furnish
Day
Relationship
Legal
Opportunity
First
Elton
Our
Recognition
Entered
Ourselves
Protect
Partnership
Became
Felt
Official
Reasons
Britain
When I was doing 'Britain's Got Talent,' I really enjoyed it, but I found it very difficult to be in the audience. I like to be on stage; I feel safer on stage because I'm in control.
David Hasselhoff
Control
Stage
Difficult
Feel
Talent
Like
Safer
Because
Audience
Got
Doing
Very
Really
Found
Enjoyed
Britain
Formed in 1967 and still performing regularly half a century later, Fairport Convention are Britain's equivalent of the Band. Unlike the latter they have maintained cordial relations.
David Hepworth
Half
Band
Relations
Unlike
Later
Latter
Maintained
Performing
Still
Equivalent
Convention
Formed
Century
Regularly
Britain
Cordial
One of the most important secret societies of the 20th century is called the Round Table. It is based in Britain with branches across the world. It is the Round Table that ultimately orchestrates the network of the Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
David Icke
World
Important
Group
Relations
Secret
Table
Network
Council
Institute
Most
Foreign
Affairs
Ultimately
Branches
Commission
The Most Important
Century
Across
International
International Affairs
Round
Based
Societies
Royal
Britain
Experts say that Britain and France have strong spy agencies; Germany's is competent but afraid to level with its public; the rest are relatively weak, and there is no Europe-wide spy agency.
David Ignatius
Strong
Rest
Relatively
France
Say
Weak
Spy
Germany
Afraid
Experts
Public
Agencies
Agency
Level
Competent
Britain
The United States consumes power per land-area at a rate three times the average. Even though they are more energy efficient, densely populated industrial countries like Germany, Britain and Japan have even bigger power consumption per area.
David J. C. MacKay
Three
Power
Energy
States
Though
Per
Rate
More
Area
Consumes
Consumption
Countries
Like
Industrial
Germany
Times
Efficient
Bigger
Japan
Average
Even
United
United States
Britain
When you see the kids on 'Britain's Got Talent' or 'The X Factor' who just want to be famous at all costs, you just go, 'God, these people just don't know what it is they're asking for.'
David Jason
God
You
People
Kids
See
Costs
Factor
Talent
Know
Got
Go
Just
Famous
Want
Asking
Who
Britain
I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what I decided I would do is write a novel based on my dissertation research.
David Liss
You
Old
Research
Dissertation
Would
Write
Knew
Know
Decided
Old Adage
Century
Should
Novel
Based
Adage
Britain
In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.
David Miliband
Work
Education
Welfare
Young
System
Over
Housing
Unemployed
Transport
Prescribed
Britain
The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.
David Miliband
Alone
Class
Phones
People
World
Opportunity
Seven
Out
Total
Ten
Economies
Mobile
Mobile Phones
Five
Times
Africa
Middle
African
Middle Class
Biggest
Population
Million
Million People
Nigeria
Britain
The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world.
David Miliband
World
Rest
Danger
Weak
Policy
Foreign
Real
Foreign Policy
Europe
Therefore
Britain
People want more power over their own lives. That's not just true in Britain, it's true around the world.
David Miliband
People
World
Power
Own
More
More Power
True
Over
Around
Just
Want
Lives
Britain
What is the big political issue for Britain at the moment? Without wishing to sound portentous, it is about whether we can build a social democratic settlement, whether we can lay the political and cultural foundations for the next several years.
David Miliband
Political
Big
Build
Settlement
Several
About
Lay
Wishing
Democratic
Without
Sound
Issue
Years
Cultural
Whether
Social
Next
Moment
Foundations
Britain
I think until Britain acknowledges just how much of a presence black people had here before the Sixties, then there are certain stories that are not going to be inclusive of what I have to offer.
David Oyelowo
People
Black
Before
Inclusive
Think
Had
Until
How
How Much
Offer
Going
Just
Sixties
Stories
Acknowledge
Then
Much
Certain
Presence
Here
Britain
You can't actually be just a movie actor in Britain, because we don't make that many movies.
David Thewlis
You
Make
Because
Just
Movie
Movie Actor
Movies
Many
Actor
Actually
Britain
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