Julia Hartley-Brewer Quotes

Julia Hartley-Brewer

Profession : Journalist

Birth : May 2, 1968

While the ranks of MPs on all sides of the Commons, along with most of the country, are busy splitting into two camps, either for or against Britain staying in the European Union, you'd be hard pressed to know what Jeremy Corbyn thinks.

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For Mr Corbyn, the E.U. is something of an irrelevance. At worst, it is a bureaucratic irritation. At best, it provides a useful expose of deep Tory fissures that may well explode in David Cameron's face.

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The one good thing to come out of the entire Brexit saga is that at least we, the poor hitherto unsuspecting voters, now know that many of our elected representatives don't respect us at all.

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Boris Johnson 'doesn't do detail.' It is a criticism that has dogged his political and journalistic career.

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Teaching is supposed to be a vocation for life - not a lifelong vacation.

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If ever there was a sign that normal life really is about to resume, it is the annual trip to buy new school shoes.

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Just as good schools need strong headteachers, so good governments need strong prime ministers.

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The Government and the police are only able to do their jobs with the consent of the people.

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I'm far less bothered by on screen stars earning the big bucks than the legions of middle management behind the scenes at the BBC who enjoy six figure salaries at taxpayers' expense.

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Most offices - and especially those in the public sector - are full of people who have very impressive job titles, look terribly busy, bashing away on their keyboards, cc-ing everyone on emails and spending hour upon hour in meetings, yet no one has any idea what it is that they actually do all day.

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The war being fought against coronavirus has been led by the battle cry of We Must Do Something. Even if that Something is simply coming up with a new rule even more stupid than the last one.

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We must not allow Covid to turn us into a country of hypochondriacs, fearful of every minor symptom. Yes, of course if you may have a highly infectious deadly disease, you should not put your colleagues at risk, but let's not pretend every cough is going to kill us.

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Feeling under the weather is just part of everyday life.

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Soldiering on is a national trait of which to be proud, not one to be mocked.

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The unrelieved company of women can be a little wearing at times. And, to be brutally honest, men are often a lot more fun.

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It's not that women aren't funny or that they're not interesting company , it's just that you can sometimes have too much of a supportive, intuitive, caring, sharing kind of thing.

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The women whose company I most enjoy are invariably loud, opinionated, funny types who can best be described as 'blokey.' But they are not, sadly, representative of my gender as a whole.

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Sure, for a one-to-one chat about life, the universe and everything, give me a woman. But when it comes to a group gathering, whether for work or play, I'd opt for men every time.

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Of course some people who oppose mass migration are racists, but then so are some of the people who support it.

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Racism is not exclusive to one side of the political divide.

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