The most terrifying thing I ever saw in a cinema, thanks to the carefully built-up drama, was in the ancient black-and-white film 'The Innocents,' based on Henry James's 'The Turn Of The Screw.' My skin actually crawled with horror. — 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
Comprehensive schools, as too few understand, have never been designed to improve education. — Peter Hitchens Copy Share
If you want a day free of work, you must expect others to have the same privilege. — Peter Hitchens Copy Share
The giant fraud that is Britain's education system strides ever onwards, messing up many more lives than it improves. — Peter Hitchens Copy Share
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
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
