I don't think the British or American governments really want to fight the Islamic State. They just want to look as if they are doing so. — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
Our pious horror at the intolerant and repressive behaviour of Islamic State is bitterly funny, given that it is really not that different from the policies of our close ally, Saudi Arabia. — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
Direct Grants, private schools which took huge numbers of state pupils, involved effective co-operation between state and private sectors - a thing all modern… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
Actually, I never wanted an E.U. referendum, and I think those who called for it will one day wish they hadn't. — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
I hate cars and wish they had never been invented. I try to use them only when I absolutely have to. — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
What we need and have not got at Westminster are real experience and wisdom, possessed by people who do not view politics as a… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
As I am actually partly Cornish, I am frequently tempted to start some sort of Cornish liberation front in the Home Counties, where our… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
Fear is good and useful when it's deployed on the side of common sense. — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
Terrorists are overjoyed when we shut down our freedoms and turn ourselves into a police state and when we retaliate, swatting the Middle East… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
Comprehensive schools, as too few understand, have never been designed to improve education. — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you want a day free of work, you must expect others to have the same privilege. — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
The giant fraud that is Britain's education system strides ever onwards, messing up many more lives than it improves. — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
The worst country I ever lived in, the old U.S.S.R., was crammed with privileges for the political elite. They had their own hospital, their… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
If a man's reputation can be destroyed in an afternoon by a secret kangaroo court, then we, too, can one day be propelled into… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
