If you claim to represent and speak for the people, and they are forced to pay your salary, you have a duty to experience life as near as possible to the way others live it. Peter Hitchens Read Quote
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 own shops, country houses, and blocks of flats, special lanes on the streets so they could bypass the traffic in their special cars. Peter Hitchens Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I think we shall have ceased to be a racially divided society only when we stop making a fuss about colour. Peter Hitchens Read Quote
News isn’t just what happens. It’s what a fairly small group of people decide is news. Peter Hitchens Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The giant fraud that is Britain’s education system strides ever onwards, messing up many more lives than it improves. Peter Hitchens Read Quote
Nowhere in the Beatitudes did Jesus say, ‘Blessed are the queue-jumpers,’ trying to gain an advantage at the expense of others. This is what the people at Calais are. Peter Hitchens Read Quote
