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British Press Quotes

John Major quote: "I like the best of the British press. The best of the British..."
I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good. John Major
Robert Trout quote: "Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that..."
Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats. Robert Trout
Paddy Ashdown quote: "I've had much nastier things said about me in the British..."
I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press. Paddy Ashdown
I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music. Andrew Eldritch
Joss Stone quote: "The British press has been unfair to me and the public has..."
The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed. Joss Stone
I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability. Nick Clegg
A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America. Eric Clapton
The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look? Melanie Chisholm
In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs. John le Carre
When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since. Claire Bloom
Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms from opposition parties and independent newspapers, cannot help but make such an effort. Not surprisingly, while India continued to have famines under British rule right up to independence? they disappeared suddenly with the establishment of a multiparty democracy and a free press.? a free press and an active political opposition constitute the best early-warning... Amartya Sen
They program you to have no emotion – like if somebody sitting next to you gets killed you just have to carry on doing your job and shut up,‘ Steve Annabell, a British veteran of the Falkan War … ‘When you leave the service, when you come back from a situation like that, there’s no button they can press to switch your emotions back on. So you walk around like a zombie. They don’t deprogram you. If you become a problem they just sweep you under the carpet. Chris Hedges
I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs. Freddie Mercury
Clare Short quote: "I think the good old British democracy should keep..."
I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out. Clare Short
When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship. Kate Adie

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