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Stephen Fry has the voice, education and mannerisms of an English gentleman - but the opinions of a Trotskyite lunatic.

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The target would require the group becoming one of the best explorers among the integrated oil companies, rather than one of the worst.

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The results were good but not exceptional.

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If we get a cold snap we could spike towards $30 and it is sustainable at $25 for a month or two.

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For some of these people, since the very things they admire him for are the very things that I most specifically reject, the idea that I am closely related to him, have a similar education and background, is close to unbearable. They admire him so much that it is close to reverence. They would, if I were dead, or had no opinions, or agreed with Christopher, quite possibly allow me to have a share of that reverence, a member of the Holy Family. But oh dear, what is this? I am not dead. I do have opinions. They are the wrong ones, the wrongest opinions, in fact, that I could possibly have. Yet my voice is eerily similar to their hero’s and I bear the same surname. Help! There is no room in the atheist shrine for me.

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I couldn’t stand Jimmy Savile. But at least his death has helped uncover one of the grossest pieces of hypocrisy in modern times. Compare and contrast: two great and respected institutions do nothing about child molesting in their midst. When the institution is the conservative Roman Catholic Church, the BBC cannot shut up about it. When the institution is the liberal, secular BBC, the Corporation mumbles feebly, and cancels its own programme on the subject. It wasn’t the children they cared about, you see.

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Thus it would be better if I did not exist at all. Why? If I am related, and if I am intelligent, then that means that it is possible they may be wrong about God and the Self. And of course it is desperately important to them that they are right. If God exists, and they do not have absolute sovereignty over their bodies, and their dull parents and pompous pastors and priests are correct, or may even have a point, then their whole choice and way of life, their whole rebellion against the previous generation, is open to question. They don’t even want to consider that possibility. Thus they conclude that I must be stupid, and that it is impossible that my brother and I are really related, and (in some cases) that they wish I were dead. I treasure the hope that these poor lost children will grow up enough, one day, to see what a sad, hopeless and deluded view of the world this is, and may come to realise - through this very process - that they may possibly be mistaken about greater things as well.

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Norway is a relatively high-cost area for oil exploration, the Norwegian Shelf is becoming more mature and it's slipping down the appeal curve.

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There is an acute shortage of product from refineries and this is drifting back into the futures market. But OPEC is passing the buck for high oil prices, it doesn't want to be held responsible for a possible worldwide recession.

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I treasure the fantasy that at Christmas 1914, the truce in the trenches had spread and spread, across time and distance, until the soldiers of both armies, recognising the whole thing was futile and wrong, piled up their weapons, shook hands and walked home to their wives and children, laughing at the puce-faced ‘statesmen’ who swore and shouted at them, ordering them to remain at their posts.

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