Out Quotes

“Brexit deals tended to be founded on the kind of linguistic circumlocutions and fudge that made Sir Humphrey Appleby Britain’s favourite fictional mandarin.”
― Tim Shipman, Out

“General Lord Ismay, the first head of Nato, had famously joked the alliance’s purpose was to ‘keep the Russians out, the Americans in and the Germans down’.”
― Tim Shipman, Out

“If there is a lesson in this book, it is not that some ideologies are right and that others are wrong, but that success belongs to leaders who build effective teams to pursue clearly defined goals that they can not only explain to the public but also persuade them to support.”
― Tim Shipman, Out

“The plotters forgot the old adage that those who seek to kill a king had better return with a body.”
― Tim Shipman, Out