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Peter Hitchens
English
Journalist
Born:
Oct 28
,
1951
Country
Freedom
Great
People
Think
You
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The giant fraud that is Britain's education system strides ever onwards, messing up many more lives than it improves.
Peter Hitchens
Education
Strides
Giant
System
Fraud
More
Messing
Up
Than
Improves
Many
Ever
Lives
Britain
All serious elite institutions, from the great London clubs to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, have always made sure that most people can't get into them. That's the point.
Peter Hitchens
Great
People
Made
Party
London
Point
Institutions
Most
Sure
Always
Get
Soviet
Committee
Central
Clubs
Them
Communist
Communist Party
Serious
Elite
What we need and have not got at Westminster are real experience and wisdom, possessed by people who do not view politics as a career.
Peter Hitchens
Politics
Wisdom
Experience
People
Possessed
Got
Real
Westminster
View
Who
Career
Need
I have visited nearly 60 countries and lived in the U.S.S.R., Russia, and the U.S.A., and I have never experienced anything as good as what we have. Only in the Anglosphere countries - the U.S.A., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand - is there anything comparable. I am amazed at how relaxed we are about giving this away.
Peter Hitchens
Good
Giving
Relaxed
Visited
About
Russia
Only
Never
Countries
New
How
Am
Amazed
Australia
Canada
Experienced
Anything
New Zealand
Comparable
Lived
Zealand
Away
Nearly
Most of the really successful civilisations survived because they were protected from invasion by mountains, sea, deserts, or a combination of these things. Ask the Russians or the Poles what it's like to live without the shield of the sea.
Peter Hitchens
Mountains
Live
Russians
Invasion
Combination
Poles
Like
Most
Protected
Because
Without
Shield
Were
Survived
Ask
Really
Successful
Sea
Deserts
Things
Do not underestimate Jeremy Corbyn.
Peter Hitchens
Underestimate
Jeremy
Mr. Corbyn reminds mature people of the days when the big parties really differed. He impresses the young because he doesn't patronise them, and obviously believes what he says.
Peter Hitchens
People
Big
Young
Says
He
Reminds
Days
Parties
Obviously
Because
Mature
Them
Really
Believes
A fierce and principled opposition stops a fat, complacent government from making stupid mistakes.
Peter Hitchens
Government
Stupid
Mistakes
Complacent
Principled
Making
Opposition
Stops
Fierce
Fat
If you know something damaging about a major political figure, then, in a democracy, it is surely your duty to tell the voters before they go to the polls.
Peter Hitchens
Democracy
You
Political
Before
Duty
Tell
About
Something
Major
Voters
Know
Surely
Go
Polls
Then
Your
Figure
Damaging
I don't think the British or American governments really want to fight the Islamic State. They just want to look as if they are doing so.
Peter Hitchens
Fight
Think
State
Look
Islamic
Doing
Governments
American
Just
Want
Really
British
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 were a new-minted witticism.
Peter Hitchens
Saying
Tired
People
Enemy
Old
My Friend
Were
Friend
Cynics
Grown
I've tried many times to set out the case against the wicked fantasy of 'ADHD,' which usually earns me nothing but ignorant rage in return.
Peter Hitchens
Me
Nothing
Rage
Wicked
ADHD
Out
Tried
Case
Return
Times
Which
Against
Fantasy
Ignorant
Many
Set
Comprehensive schools, as too few understand, have never been designed to improve education.
Peter Hitchens
Education
Few
Too
Comprehensive
Never
Schools
Understand
Been
Improve
Designed
The Church of England hasn't often produced great men in modern times. But I have long believed that George Bell, Bishop of Chichester from 1929 to 1958, was such a man.
Peter Hitchens
Great
Man
Church
Men
Long
Bishop
Great Men
George
Times
Modern
Often
Modern Times
Produced
England
Believed
Bell
Real conservatives are in favour of all kinds of unelected power and authority.
Peter Hitchens
Power
Conservatives
Favour
Kinds
Real
Authority
Donald Trump is a symptom, not a disease. The disease is the death of real political conservatism: a cool, intelligent reluctance to believe that all change is good, a love for the established, the particular, and the well-worn.
Peter Hitchens
Love
Death
Good
Change
Political
Believe
Conservatism
Symptom
Reluctance
Particular
Real
Trump
Intelligent
Disease
Donald
Donald Trump
Established
Cool
Every educated and intelligent person glories in the freedom of women in Western societies to exercise their talents to the full and their freedom to walk safely in the streets of our great cities.
Peter Hitchens
Great
Freedom
Women
Walk
Every
Our
Cities
Talents
Safely
Exercise
Educated
Western
Intelligent
Intelligent Person
Person
Full
Streets
Societies
If migrants from other cultures arrive too fast and in numbers too great for society to absorb and integrate them, they begin to impose those cultures on the host country.
Peter Hitchens
Great
Country
Society
Too
Other
Those
Host
Absorb
Arrive
Impose
Integrate
Cultures
Begin
Them
Fast
Numbers
How I shall miss Alan Rickman, his beautiful command of English, and a voice he played like a musical instrument.
Peter Hitchens
Beautiful
Musical
Musical Instrument
Voice
Shall
He
Miss
Like
Instrument
How
Command
His
English
Alan
Played
I ride a bicycle daily in London and have done for many years.
Peter Hitchens
Daily
Ride
Bicycle
London
Years
Done
Many
If I never again had to read or write a word about homosexuals, I would be very happy.
Peter Hitchens
Happy
Word
Would
Would-Be
About
Write
Never
Had
Read
Very
Again
Homosexuals
If you are funny, people will like you. A lot of advertising is based on this simple rule. The Tory MP Boris Johnson has benefited a lot from it.
Peter Hitchens
Funny
You
People
Simple
Will
Funny People
Rule
Tory
Johnson
Like
Advertising
Lot
Based
The point of Left-wing propaganda is to make us feel powerless.
Peter Hitchens
Propaganda
Point
Feel
Powerless
Make
Left-Wing
Us
The public, unlike our governing elite, are not obsessed by race and sex. They are rightly interested only in the contents of the person's character.
Peter Hitchens
Character
Sex
Our
Unlike
Rightly
Only
Obsessed
Contents
Governing
Person
Interested
Public
Race
Elite
I think we shall have ceased to be a racially divided society only when we stop making a fuss about colour.
Peter Hitchens
Think
Society
Fuss
About
Only
Shall
Divided
Colour
Making
Stop
Female politicos mostly represent a rather militant faction.
Peter Hitchens
Rather
Faction
Mostly
Female
Represent
Militant
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