A referendum is almost always a device by which governments get the voters to endorse what they wanted to do all along. — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
A fierce and principled opposition stops a fat, complacent government from making stupid mistakes. — 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… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
All we have and are is based on the Christian faith, which has shaped law, government, morals, music, landscape, and education here… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't think the British or American governments really want to fight the Islamic State. They just want to look as if… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
We say we want politicians who are open and honest. And then, when we get one, we angrily pelt him with slime… — 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… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
What many of us object to is the politicians who, for whatever reason, forget that societies cannot easily absorb huge numbers of… — 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
