Hints and tips:
...Today, members have use of three floors connected by spiral staircases, high-ceilinged reading rooms, a children’s library featuring a mock “Narnia” wardrobe and some 50,000 books, as well as book clubs...
...Some may mock, but a better reaction would be to insist that if the nation’s fate is to turn to Churchill we should, at least, draw the right lesson....
...The author mocks Nissan’s threat to withdraw from Britain, yet does not pause to consider why the Japanese carmaker came to Sunderland in the first place....
...But in that age of mock Tudor architecture, plenty of people wanted to believe England had not really changed....
...They used to mock it as the Hauptdorf, the capital-village. Since unification, it’s been just a village....
...History is continuing to mock such an error....
...“I don’t want to sound all Monty Pythonesque,” he says, switching to a mock Yorkshire accent: “‘I were brought up in’ paper bag....
...Winston Churchill dubbed their rapid and humiliating defeat “the worst disaster, and largest capitulation, in British history”....
...In the same piece he had referred to Africans’ “watermelon smiles”, in an effort to mock the then prime minister Tony Blair’s visits to the continent....
...“I used to have these . . . ” And then he sees a mock recording studio dedicated to Fela Kuti....
...“It is not for me to attempt to fathom the inscrutable workings of providence,” replied FE Smith, a friend of Winston Churchill and a future Conservative cabinet minister....
...The British writer-politician Winston Churchill grumbled that the “monument erected . . . by his fellow-countrymen records his infamy and their own”....
...He wrote a mock epitaph for him as “the genius who often makes himself God-damned uncomfortable by the way in which he expresses and suppresses it”....
...Hadn’t we all been in it together, Exeter, Harry the King, George the King, Winston, Dunkirk, the Blitz, Normandy? “We band of brothers, for he who today sheds his blood with me shall be my brother”!...
...You didn’t mock the British prime minister: why, the man led the world....
...David Campbell-Bannerman picked up 1,404, economist Tim Congdon got 2,037 and Winston McKenzie received 530....
...Britain has its first coalition government since 1945, the year that Winston Churchill’s wartime alliance against Hitler ended....
...“The party needs to be generating ideas and Newt is one of the few people doing that,” says David Winston, a Republican strategist....
...By mispronouncing a name, we mock or belittle its owner....
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