School teaches us more than merely the three Rs. It teaches us about life: how to get along with other people, follow rules and prepare for the world of work and adult responsibilities.

Julia Hartley-Brewer

Call me old-fashioned, but I always thought that you went to work to get paid, and if you actually enjoyed what you did for a living, as I'm lucky to do, then that was a bonus. I didn't expect to get a street parade, complete with marching band and majorettes, just for turning up on time.

Julia Hartley-Brewer

Clearly, men shouldn't go around making unsolicited passes at women in the workplace.

Julia Hartley-Brewer

While I understand we might like to expect that our political representatives will be role models rather than reprobates, that doesn't mean we should expect them all to be perfect all the time.

Julia Hartley-Brewer

It's perfectly clear that 99 per cent of people know the difference between appropriate and inappropriate behaviour in the workplace.

Julia Hartley-Brewer

If we want to live in a sterile world, where men and women never speak or touch in the workplace or require every interaction to be authorised in advance in triplicate, then fine. That's not the world most of us want to live in.

Julia Hartley-Brewer

If you think women aren't able to cope on TV comedy panel shows, then have I got news for you: you're wrong.

Julia Hartley-Brewer

Indeed, there's nothing remotely comfortable about having to be funny in front of a 300-strong live studio audience to record a television show that is broadcast to millions, where you are required not only to know about the news but to be entertaining about it too.

Julia Hartley-Brewer

The 'HIGNFY' line-up often consists of four male comedians and one lone female TV presenter who barely says a word. Lo and behold, everyone wonders why the men are funnier than the woman! If your actual job is to make people laugh, then you'll probably be more amusing than someone who reads a teleprompter for a living.

Julia Hartley-Brewer

I hold no candle for any political party, but I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in growing weary of the incessant 'evil Tories' propaganda broadcast 24 hours a day on every panel show. As a Brexiteer, the only way to escape the non-stop refrain of 'Leave voters are all stupid and racist' is to reach for the 'off' button.

Julia Hartley-Brewer

Yes, the cost of care homes is a huge expense, but only a minority of elderly Brits ever spend a single night in a care home.

Julia Hartley-Brewer

Indeed, the whole point of the NHS was to enable Britons to live until a ripe old age.

Julia Hartley-Brewer

Whatever age we die, we will cost the NHS money. It's the dying, not the ageing, that racks up the medical bills. So why not hope to live as long as possible?

Julia Hartley-Brewer

An infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters might be able to write the complete works of William Shakespeare but the Bard himself, a devotee of the colourful metaphor, would struggle to be able to write a single sonnet in these politically correct times.

Julia Hartley-Brewer

Taking offence is now our national pastime and metaphors are merely the latest offensive weapon identified by social justice warriors as being so menacing that they must be censored for our own good.

Julia Hartley-Brewer

When did we all become so fragile that mere metaphors could turn us all into fainting flowers? When did we stop being allowed to take the mickey, to poke fun at, and, yes, be a bit rude and cruel about things we don't like?

Julia Hartley-Brewer

Funnily enough, countries tend not to do things that are against their own interests and the French government knows that opening up a travel point into the U.K. at Calais would be an unmitigated disaster for them.

Julia Hartley-Brewer

There will always be border controls between France and Britain, whether we are in the E.U. or not, simply because we are not in the Schengen free trade area.

Julia Hartley-Brewer

With friends like Monsieur Macron, who needs enemies?

Julia Hartley-Brewer

There are lots of things that Jeremy Corbyn feels strongly about. He definitely doesn't like wars, nuclear weapons, or free market capitalism. He dislikes Tories, the Liberal Democrats and anyone to do with New Labour. He also doesn't like austerity, big business, private schools, student tuition fees, the bedroom tax, the monarchy and God.

Julia Hartley-Brewer

Julia Hartley-Brewer Quotes

School teaches us more than merely the three Rs. It teaches us about life: how to get along with other people, follow rules and prepare for the world of work and adult responsibilities.

Call me old-fashioned, but I always thought that you went to work to get paid, and if you actually enjoyed what you did for a living, as I'm lucky to do, then that was a bonus. I didn't expect to get a street parade, complete with marching band and majorettes, just for turning up on time.

Clearly, men shouldn't go around making unsolicited passes at women in the workplace.

While I understand we might like to expect that our political representatives will be role models rather than reprobates, that doesn't mean we should expect them all to be perfect all the time.

It's perfectly clear that 99 per cent of people know the difference between appropriate and inappropriate behaviour in the workplace.

If we want to live in a sterile world, where men and women never speak or touch in the workplace or require every interaction to be authorised in advance in triplicate, then fine. That's not the world most of us want to live in.

If you think women aren't able to cope on TV comedy panel shows, then have I got news for you: you're wrong.

Indeed, there's nothing remotely comfortable about having to be funny in front of a 300-strong live studio audience to record a television show that is broadcast to millions, where you are required not only to know about the news but to be entertaining about it too.

Yes, the cost of care homes is a huge expense, but only a minority of elderly Brits ever spend a single night in a care home.

Indeed, the whole point of the NHS was to enable Britons to live until a ripe old age.

Whatever age we die, we will cost the NHS money. It's the dying, not the ageing, that racks up the medical bills. So why not hope to live as long as possible?

An infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters might be able to write the complete works of William Shakespeare but the Bard himself, a devotee of the colourful metaphor, would struggle to be able to write a single sonnet in these politically correct times.

Taking offence is now our national pastime and metaphors are merely the latest offensive weapon identified by social justice warriors as being so menacing that they must be censored for our own good.

When did we all become so fragile that mere metaphors could turn us all into fainting flowers? When did we stop being allowed to take the mickey, to poke fun at, and, yes, be a bit rude and cruel about things we don't like?

Funnily enough, countries tend not to do things that are against their own interests and the French government knows that opening up a travel point into the U.K. at Calais would be an unmitigated disaster for them.

There will always be border controls between France and Britain, whether we are in the E.U. or not, simply because we are not in the Schengen free trade area.

With friends like Monsieur Macron, who needs enemies?