News isn't just what happens. It's what a fairly small group of people decide is news. — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
All serious elite institutions, from the great London clubs to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, have always made sure… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
Abortion is the only event that modern liberals think too violent and obscene to portray on TV. This is not because they… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
Britain is a desirable place to live mainly because it is an island, which most people can't get to. — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
Mr. Corbyn reminds mature people of the days when the big parties really differed. He impresses the young because he doesn't patronise… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
Evolution is an unproven theory. If what its fundamentalist supporters believe is true, fishes decided to grow lungs and legs and walk… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
Nowhere in the Beatitudes did Jesus say, 'Blessed are the queue-jumpers,' trying to gain an advantage at the expense of others. This… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that mass migration, whatever the colour of the skins of those involved, upsets and worries indigenous people, especially… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm surprised that more people don't emulate Rachel Dolezal and pretend to be black or members of some other minority. Our gullible… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
I've grown tired of people impersonating world-weary cynics by intoning the old saying 'My enemy's enemy is my friend' as if it… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you are funny, people will like you. A lot of advertising is based on this simple rule. The Tory MP Boris… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
During the 1980s, many people mistook Thatcherism and Reaganism - actually a wild form of liberalism - for conservatism. — 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