“England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London ...” — Alexander Cockburn Quote

“England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal dust and smoke, from the grit stirred up every day by the jackhammers still clearing out rubble from the Blitz.”

“A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.”

“Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.”

“My father was a journalist. He used to write for 'Blitz' tabloid.”

“MTV is such a commercial blitz that a lot of our fans would not watch it.”

“London is a city of ghosts; you feel them here. Not just of people, but eras. The ghost of empire, or the blitz, the plague, the smoky ghost of the Great Fire that gave us Christopher Wren's churches and ushered in the Georgian city.”