Quote of the day

[macliam]

“Nobody has ever committed a crime after being executed… 100 per cent success rate.”

Lee Anderson, the Conservative Party’s new deputy chairman, tells The Spectator he would support the return of the death penalty.

I'm reminded that Lord Denning suggested that had the Birmingham Six been hanged, it would have saved a lot of embarassment for the British establishment. Capital punishment used to be a good way to ensure no comebacks too.......

[Richard Frost]

“I’m sorry, but you can’t always be experiencing a higher volume of calls than average. That’s not how averages work.”

Twitter user @Kit_Yates_Maths, quoted in The Times

[Richard Frost]

“We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.”

Stephen Hawking, quoted in the New York Post

[Richard Frost]

“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”

James Baldwin, quoted in The Village Voice

[blythburgh]

“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”

James Baldwin, quoted in The Village Voice

How true, some cannot afford to buy a take away coffee these days but the really poor cannot afford to buy a decent jar of instant to make coffee at home

[Richard Frost]

“The first 80 years are tough. Life gets better after that.”

Len Deighton, quoted in The Times