Download or read book The Wit and Wisdom of Denis Healey written by Eileen Metcalfe and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book for those who enjoy wit for its own sake. It is a lighthearted look at some of Denis Healey's contributions to debates in The House of Commons, particularly those that were pervaded by a sense of fun. It shows his genuis in the use of language.
Download or read book The Wit and Wisdom of the North written by Rosemarie Jarski and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ey up, it's not only footie, pints and pies that are better up north - the humour also takes some beating. Whether it's comics like Peter Kay, Les Dawson and Victoria Wood, telly shows like Corrie and Open All Hours, or writers like Alan Bennett and Keith Waterhouse, the funniest and best-loved invariably hail from the land of perpetual drizzle (another thing they do better). This grand collection of northern wit is packed with these favourites and more. Likely lads and lippy lasses cast a wry eye on subjects close to the heart of every northerner, including - brass, grub, graft, courting, cricket, tittle-tattle and t'weather - adding up to a feast of northern hilarity.
Download or read book The Time of My Life written by Denis Healey and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denis Healey attended Bradford Grammar School and from there went up to Oxford, where he began to test and expand his political views. After a distinguished war career, he travelled throughout a shattered Europe as International Secretary of the Labour Party. He became MP for Leeds in 1952 and rose to the highest political ranks, becoming Defence Secretary, Chancellor and a major figure in the Labour Party, standing twice for the leadership. He was made a life peer in 1992. The autobiography is also about Dennis Healey the man. His wide-ranging intelligence brilliantly counterpoints the pace of change Britain has witnessed since 1945, and illuminates his love of literature, art, music and photography. This is the memoir of a man in the round: a great politician, speaker, writer and above all a friend and family man - a book which will inspire all who read it with the wit, warmth and wisdom of Denis Healey.
Download or read book The Time of My Life written by Denis Healey and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erindringer af den britiske labourpolitiker og tidligere finansminister
Download or read book The Wit and Wisdom of the 20th Century written by Frank S. Pepper and published by New York : P. Bedrick Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wit and Humour of William Hague written by Dr. Eileen Metcalfe and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been said that nothing describes a man better than his own sense of humour. Few men in public life display the wit of William Hague, now Baron Hague of Richmond. His keenly developed sense of humour and penetrating wit is a delightful facet of his personality. This book highlights Hague’s rise on the political stage as well and his penchant for doing and saying the unexpected. His words are taken largely from his speeches and debates in the House of Commons. Hague joined the Conservative Party on his fifteenth birthday, and within twelve months he made national news headlines in an unforgettable speech, addressing the Conservatives at their 1977 Annual National Conference. He was elected to Parliament in 1989, becoming its youngest Conservative member at age twenty-eight. On the back benches, Hague began a career as an author, writing biographies of William Pitt the Younger and William Wilberforce. His personal popularity in the Conservative Party and with the wider public can be partially attributed to his incomparable wit and humour. Take a lighthearted look at some of William Hague’s contributions to debates in the House of Commons, particularly those that were pervaded by a sense of fun.
Download or read book The Illustrated Wrinklies Wit Wisdom written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old is the new young! Grey is the new black! Rocking chairs are the new rock 'n' roll! Saga-louts are the new lager-louts! This collection of wrinklie wit and wisdom is proof-positive that the stereotypes of knitting grannies and doddering grandads just aren't true anymore - if, indeed they ever were.
Download or read book More Thoughts of Chairman Moore written by Brian Moore and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pitbull is back and angrier than ever, with another collection of hilariously well-observed and rambunctiously argued grievances about the mad world of sport and beyond. Following the success of The Thoughts of Chairman Moore, Volume I, you might have hoped that sport's powers that be would have sat up and taken notice of its many faults and flaws. But alas no, lunacy prevails and so Brian has taken it upon himself to put forward another collection of his unique insights and not-so-unique frustrations. Uproariously funny and spot-on in its every complaint, Volume II is required reading for anyone who can't live without sport but who also can't help but wonder at its unbridled idiocy!
Download or read book Wise Women written by Carole McKenzie and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A woman is like a teabag - only when in hot water do you realise how strong she is' - Nancy Reagan Women are never at a loss to express themselves, and smart women will have something to say for every occasion. Wise Women is a hilarious, ribald and revealing collection of observations and inspirational quotations reflecting the wit and intelligence of women across the ages. Those quoted range from Dorothy Parker to Joan Rivers, Mae West to Joan Collins, Queen Victoria to Princess Diana, Joanna Lumley to Pamela Stephenson, Beyoncé to Adele, and Cheryl Cole to Lady Gaga. The famous and infamous of theatre, film, politics, philosophy and literature are featured, waxing lyrical on numerous topics from affairs, ageing, men and motherhood to sex, work and what women want!
Download or read book European Labour Forum written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diary of a Year written by Frank Pakenham Earl of Longford and published by George Weidenfeld & Nicholson. This book was released on 1982 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Political Diary of Hugh Dalton 1918 40 1945 60 written by Hugh Dalton Baron Dalton and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1986 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Old Labour to New written by Greg Rosen and published by Politico's Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keir Hardie, Aneurin Bevan, Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock, John Smith... The roll call of Labour's great orators goes on and on. Their words illuminate the story of the Party, its triumphs and its battles. In 'I'm Telling You, and You'll Listen', Greg Rosen gathers together the greatest speeches from over one hundred years of Labour Party history and places each in context to form a unique history of the Party. Among these historic speeches are: Keir Hardie's speech to the Independent Labour Party's first conference in 1893 ('The demand of the Labour Party is economic freedom'); Bevan's 1948 attack on the Tory party ('so far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin'); Harold Wilson's 1964 election address ('The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing'); Neil Kinnock's 1985 speech to the party conference and many more.
Download or read book The Last Governor written by Jonathan Dimbleby and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Interesting conclusions about the conduct of British foreign policy on Hong Kong . . . an extraordinary diplomatic, political and personal drama.”—Julian Stockwin, author of To the Eastern Seas 1 July 1997 marked the end of British rule of Hong Kong, whereby this territory was passed into the hands of the People’s Republic of China. In 1992, Chris Patten, former chairman of the Conservative Party, was appointed Hong Kong’s last governor, and was the man to oversee the handover ceremony of this former British colony. Within the last five years of British rule, acclaimed journalist Jonathan Dimbleby was given unique access to the governor which enabled him to document the twists and turns of this extraordinary historical moment. As Governor, Patten encouraged the necessary expansion of Hong Kong’s social welfare system, striving to reconcile the basic rights and freedom of over 6 million people with the unpredictable imperatives of Beijing. With “bracing narrative energy,” the author draws on the insights of a host of senior figures to place the crisis in both its human and historical contexts and presents some startling arguments about the conduct of British foreign policy on Hong Kong before and during Patten’s tenure (The Globe and Mail).
Download or read book Oxford Treasury of Sayings and Quotations written by Susan Ratcliffe and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains quotations, proverbs, and phrases from throughout history and around the world, grouped by topic in over four hundred alphabetically arranged categories from Ability to Youth. Includes a list of themes and a keyword index.
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Childhood written by Michael Rosen and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is a moving record of how perceptions and realities of childhood have changed and how profoundly they have stayed the same. It draws upon many sources - autobiography, letters, diaries and songs, many written by children themselves.
