In England, even the poorest of people believe that they have rights; that is very different from what satisfies the poor in other lands. — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better. — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all… — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices. — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life. — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent… — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
Of the 664 men who rode into the Valley of Death about 540 eventually got out of it again. By far the highest casualty… — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad. — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
