i really like how David Wearing nails Vince Cable in this tweet here.

The chutzpah of Cable. Supports most regressive economic policies in decades, then poses as voice of enlightened reason

“If you keep teaching here, you are going to die and we won’t be responsible for your death.”

All nationalisms are gendered, all are invented, and all are dangerous - dangerous, not in Eric Hobsbawm's sense as having to be opposed, but in the sense of representing relations to political power and to the technologies of violence.

- Anne McClintock

Why don’t you tackle directly the excessive rents being charged by private landlords rather than making tenants the victim?

- Tony Blair MP, 1995

There’s a building in the Cayman Islands that houses supposedly 12,000 US corporations. That’s either the biggest building in the world or the biggest tax scam in the world.

- Barack Obama