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Simon Hoggart
British
Journalist
Born:
May 26
,
1946
Book
Day
Me
Own
World
You
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I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs.
Simon Hoggart
Religion
Atheist
Suicide
Else
Sunni
Someone
Crowded
Attack
Know
Catholic
Protestant
Impose
Lack
Anyone
Against
Agnostic
Wars
Lethal
Bombers
Pubs
Started
I think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions, different opinions and lead quite different lives from the ones you see every day, and that is immensely valuable.
Simon Hoggart
Love
Day
Home
Great
You
Every Day
People
Valuable
Different Opinions
Every
Think
Immensely
See
Seeing
About
Diversion
Lead
Great Thing
Another
Opinions
Priorities
Quite
Different
Realising
Grandparents
Lives
Thing
Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country.
Simon Hoggart
Love
Buy
Faith
People
Shopping
Country
Own
Other
More
Most
Also
Make
Does
Affirmation
Than
American
Just
Them
Planet
Fascinated
Unique
I cannot be alone in being pretty nauseated by Red Nose Day, or at least its television manifestation. Do I think that wretchedly poor children in Africa should get food and life-saving drugs? Of course. Do I want to be hectored into contributing by celebrities who earn more in a 10-minute slot than many of these families get in a year? Nope.
Simon Hoggart
Alone
Food
Day
Year
Think
Earn
Television
Slot
Pretty
More
Life-Saving
Red
Course
Least
Celebrities
Families
Than
Contributing
Get
Africa
Being
Nose
Children
Want
Cannot
Manifestation
Poor
Should
Being Pretty
Who
Many
Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and endless, tedious detail. The notes that accompanied them revealed they had inspired in the original recipients everything from mild irritation to absolute rage.
Simon Hoggart
Christmas
Me
Guardian
Rage
Recipients
Everything
Kind
Detail
Absolute
Perfect
Inspired
Had
Talented
Robin
Readers
Revealed
Accompanied
Been
Years
Exotic
Endless
Children
Irritation
Holidays
Lengthy
Them
Notes
Mild
Full
Original
Now
Round
Pets
Tedious
The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.
Simon Hoggart
Dinner
Party
Dinner Party
Imperial
Spontaneity
Formal
Japanese
Washington
Funeral
She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.
Simon Hoggart
Government
History
First
Country
Give
Head
She
Childhood
Whole
Second
Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.
Simon Hoggart
Tired
You
Party
Living
Late-Night
Some
Had
Headache
Miss
Since
New
Like
Terrible
Because
Leave
Arrived
York
New York
Being
Then
Life was so much simpler in pre-video days when everyone refused invitations because the 'Forsyte Saga' was on. Now we all just have a long list of unwatched shows, all of which, it seems, our friends are raving about. I feel as outdated as if I wore a Fair Isle sweater, ate Pot Noodle and had a two-bar electric fire in the sitting room.
Simon Hoggart
Life
Long
Fire
Everyone
Our
Ate
Outdated
About
Pot
Seems
Long List
Simpler
Had
Raving
Feel
Invitations
Days
Fair
Because
Saga
Isle
Noodle
Friends
Sitting
List
Just
Refused
Which
Wore
Room
Sweater
Much
Electric
Shows
Now
Remember how Margaret Thatcher came to believe that abroad was more important than at home? Didn't do her much good.
Simon Hoggart
Good
Home
Remember
Important
Believe
Abroad
More
How
Came
Than
Thatcher
Much
Her
Margaret
Margaret Thatcher
To be fair to the Inquisition, they only used confessions extracted after the torture had ended, which let them claim that admissions had been freely given; the fact that the torture would have started again if they hadn't confessed was a minor detail.
Simon Hoggart
Extracted
Inquisition
Claim
Detail
Would
Torture
Minor
Admission
Given
Only
Fact
Had
Freely
Fair
Been
Ended
Confessions
After
Which
Again
Them
Used
Started
When people move from one extreme set of views to embrace another equally batty picture of the world, they expect us to applaud their choice, as if the fact that they have rejected one form of nuttiness somehow validates the screwball views they hold now.
Simon Hoggart
People
World
Picture
Extreme
Embrace
Somehow
Fact
Another
Equally
Expect
Move
Form
Hold
Us
Choice
Views
Now
Applaud
Rejected
Set
Switzerland still has a huge share of the watch market, all advertised at the airport on illuminated hoardings. Gosh, they are ugly.
Simon Hoggart
Ugly
Market
Airport
Share
Gosh
Still
Huge
Illuminated
Switzerland
Watch
We all have our opinions. But I suspect that writers are actually less worth heeding, because they regard themselves as so uniquely important, so culturally sensitive.
Simon Hoggart
Worth
Important
Our
Writers
Because
Opinions
Suspect
Regard
Sensitive
Themselves
Less
Uniquely
Actually
During my own gap year, I learned an invaluable lesson - that I was a lousy teacher. Even though the children I 'taught,' in upcountry Uganda, were desperate for qualifications, they largely ignored me. Until, that is, I realised that they wanted to hear about other young persons around the world.
Simon Hoggart
Teacher
Me
World
Desperate
Year
Own
Young
Lesson
Other
Though
About
Invaluable
My Own
Qualifications
Until
Learned
Around
Uganda
Were
Hear
Lousy
Taught
Children
Wanted
Realised
Persons
Ignored
Even
Gap
Largely
What has always puzzled me is the flexibility of God's word. For instance, Catholics can now eat meat on Fridays. And limbo has been abolished. How does this work? Who tells them?
Simon Hoggart
Work
God
Me
Word
Has-Been
Tells
Eat
Abolish
Instance
Puzzled
Limbo
Catholics
Does
Always
How
Been
Them
Flexibility
Who
Meat
Now
A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his God, rather than to a wife and children.
Simon Hoggart
God
Wife
Job
Seen
Tough
Community
Married
Vocation
Rather
Only
Priest
Likely
Sure
Answerable
Pillar
His
Than
Children
Vicar
Regard
My colleague Bill Keegan has written a very short book ('Saving the World?') on an unlikely topic - he is the first economist to try to rehabilitate Gordon Brown.
Simon Hoggart
Book
World
Try
First
Saving
Unlikely
Topic
Colleague
Brown
He
Written
Economist
Gordon
Very
Short
Bill
One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arrive with a book, but I almost never read it. It would be like sitting at their dinner table and opening a packet of sandwiches.
Simon Hoggart
You
Book
Dinner
Pleasures
Would
Would-Be
Dinner Table
Table
Staying
Browse
Never
Almost
Opening
Like
Read
Always
Shelves
Arrive
Friends
Get
Sitting
Packet
Sandwiches
While it is entirely untrue that Canadians lack a sense of humour, the funniest ones tend to head south: Dan Aykroyd, Jim Carrey, Michael J. Fox.
Simon Hoggart
Sense
Dan
Jim
Humour
Jim Carrey
Entirely
Tend
Head
Untrue
South
Michael
Canadians
Lack
While
Fox
Funniest
What puzzles me is the way that some of the smaller, unknown chateaux imagine that because Chinese millionaires pay ludicrous sums for the great names, they can overcharge for their own inferior fluids. There is no trickledown effect in wine prices.
Simon Hoggart
Great
Me
Wine
Own
Pay
Unknown
Way
Sums
Some
Prices
Smaller
Puzzles
Names
Because
Effect
Inferior
Chinese
Ludicrous
Millionaires
Imagine
Every time humanists try to get a slot on 'Thought For the Day' on Radio 4, they are told it's reserved for 'the faith community,' whatever that is. Yet 'TfT' is almost always pabulum about how God wants us all to love each other and care for the unfortunate. I'm sure humanists would say much the same, without God.
Simon Hoggart
Love
God
Faith
Time
Day
Try
Care
Thought
Whatever
Community
Every
Other
Every Time
Say
Would
Slot
About
Almost
For The Day
Sure
Without
Always
How
Get
Same
Wants
Unfortunate
To Love
Us
Much
Radio
Each
Reserved
I also learned to play Fruit Ninja on an iPad. It is quite hypnotic, and I hope one day to get past 100 points. I remembered that David Cameron admits to being an addict. I wonder if it helps him in his work. 'Great, just destroyed a pineapple! Reminds me, shall we send those grenades to the Syrian rebels?'
Simon Hoggart
Work
Hope
Day
Great
Me
Fruit
Past
Addict
Those
Ninja
One Day
Syrian
Destroyed
Admit
Shall
David
David Cameron
Hypnotic
Points
Remembered
Reminds
Also
Him
Learned
iPad
His
Cameron
Wonder
Get
Send
Quite
Just
Being
Grenades
Helps
Rebels
Play
There are few tribes more loathsome than the American Right, and their vicious use of the shortcomings in the NHS to attack Barack Obama's attempts at health reform are a useful reminder.
Simon Hoggart
Health
Few
Loathsome
Tribes
Obama
More
Attack
Attempts
Reminder
Health Reform
Than
Reform
American
Vicious
Barack
Shortcomings
Use
Useful
Right
All over the U.S. there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more odious than the rich, powerful and arrogant trying to keep it that way.
Simon Hoggart
Health
People
Care
Arrogant
Rich
Way
Sight
Destroyed
Proper
More
Powerful
Over
Health Care
Odious
Provision
Than
Trying
Lack
Being
Keep
Whose
Lives
'Sir' Richard Branson may be the Julian Assange of British business, in that both believe the world revolves around them. Hence Branson's decision to set up an air service between Manchester and London, above the route of the train line that's been taken from him.
Simon Hoggart
Service
Business
World
Decision
Believe
Air
London
Above
Both
Taken
Between
Him
Around
Line
Been
Up
Sir
Train
Revolves
Manchester
May
Them
Richard
Hence
Route
British
Set
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