If you want a day free of work, you must expect others to have the same privilege. — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
Our education system teaches the young what to think, not how to think. And if you ever wonder why so many things… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
MPs do not work for you. They work for the lobbyists who have bought their parties. — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
Work, especially if you're lucky in what you do, is one of the great pleasures of life, but - like all pleasures… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
Successful state schools work because charismatic heads or teachers are terrific bluffers, giving the impression that they are to be feared while… — 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