Jack Yan on Tumblr: Archive

Jack Yan on Tumblr

February 2012

“While most newspapers groups in Britain pay 30% or more in corporation tax,...”

– Mail on Sunday, December 3, 1995 (source not independently veriﬁed).

“You just don’t understand the readers, do you, eh? He’s the bloke you see in the...”

– Kelvin McKenzie, while editing The Sun, as quoted in P. Chippendale and C. Horrie: The History of The Sun.

“I don’t put a lot of stock in polls. Poles are good for cross-country skiers and...”

– Sarah Palin, former governor of Alaska

“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that...”

– Whitney Houston, found via Miss Phloss’s blog

“But the British have never made convincing warmongering colonial imperialists....”

– Whiter than white In the Mirror tabloid today. What uninformed bollocks. Try telling that to the people of Hong Kong, many of whom feared just what would happen after 1997. Granted, there was a lease agreement for Kowloon and the New Territories, and good arguments for territorial contiguity—but,...