A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
To be fair to the Inquisition, they only used confessions extracted after the torture had ended, which let them claim that admissions had been freely given; the fact that the torture would have started again if they hadn't confessed was… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery. — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
What puzzles me is the way that some of the smaller, unknown chateaux imagine that because Chinese millionaires pay ludicrous sums for the great… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
I'm often amazed at the way politicians, who spend hours poring over opinion poll results in a desperate attempt to discover what the public… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
Poor Harper Seven Beckham, having to live with that name all her life. It's the Boy Named Sue syndrome; at the very least it… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
Peter Mandelson is the only man I know who can skulk in broad daylight. — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
It's sad that the BBC is toning down Dennis the Menace for a cartoon series. He is losing his weapons, catapult and peashooter, will… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
While it is entirely untrue that Canadians lack a sense of humour, the funniest ones tend to head south: Dan Aykroyd, Jim Carrey, Michael… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
Reagan is the only man to take the presidency as a part-time job, a means of filling up the otherwise empty hours of retirement. — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
I think Tony Blair has to come down on one side or the other. You can't be a half-hearted supporter of the possible attack… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
