Life's Pleasures Quote by Ronald Biggs

A toast that trips over itself on purpose, Ronald Biggs' line is less about beer than about the performance of being untouchable. "Banks' beer. There's nothing like it!" reads like a breezy advert, the kind of chirpy brand loyalty you’d hear in a pub. But coming from Biggs - the Great Train Robber turned fugitive-celebrity - it lands as a wink: the "nothing like it" is what Brazil (and later Barbados) offered him, too. Not just a drink, but a climate where consequences could be diluted.

The jump cut from product slogan to geopolitics is the point. "To Brazil" turns the toast into a travel brochure for escape, collapsing exile into leisure. Then the phrase that really bites: "And to Barbados justice". It's both a mock salute and a sideways insult. Justice becomes something local, negotiable, even tourist-friendly, like rum or beaches. The wording suggests he’s not merely grateful for shelter; he’s amused by the loopholes and the bureaucratic theater that let him remain a public figure while remaining, in many eyes, a criminal.

Biggs' intent is self-mythmaking. He speaks in the language of celebration to reframe flight as freedom and notoriety as charm. The subtext is a shrug at moral accounting: if you can turn manhunts into punchlines and extradition into a vacation itinerary, you’ve already won the cultural battle.