How It's Used

“The final sections of Mr. French’s biography grow a bit deflated and sad; the book becomes a list of awards and obligations, and a compendium of Mr. Naipaul’s boorish behavior. (He dressed down Iris Murdoch while both were dining with Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street; he soured an evening at Francis Ford Coppola’s Napa Valley estate by disapproving of the food and by sneering at George Lucas: 'I don’t know "Star Wars," I am not interested in films.')”

—Dwight Garner, “V. S. Naipaul, a Man Who Has Earned a Knighthood, a Nobel and Enemies Galore,” The New York Times, November 18, 2008.

"British politics - and the country - faces a democratic conundrum. The universal consensus beyond Number 10 is that an exhausted Labour government is facing electoral disaster led by a man unsuited to the task of prime ministership. The Norwich byelection result is but a harbinger of the annihilation that is to come. Gordon Brown has a habitual capacity to overclaim and dissimulate. He believed his own propaganda about escaping boom and bust and bought the neoconservative ideology that financial markets were innovatively efficient, so helping stoke a wild credit boom, a failure he still does not publicly recognise."

—Will Hutton, "At last, Brown is getting it right. His tragedy is that no one can see it," The Observer (UK), July 26, 2009.

"There have been tensions between the White House and No 10 for weeks over Brown's handling of the Scottish government's decision to release the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi."

—Patrick Wintour, "Barack Obama snubs Gordon Brown over private talks: White House spurned five requests from PM's aides for bilateral meeting," The Guardian (UK), September 24, 2009.

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Number 10, No 10, No. 10 Downing Street, 10 Downing Street

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Wikipedia article on Number 10 Downing Street
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