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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Real conservatives are in favour of all kinds of unelected power and authority. Peter Hitchens Read Quote
I wonder how many illegal migrants fanned out across the country while I and others were subjected to the stone-faced, suspicious inefficiency of the Border Force? Peter Hitchens Read Quote
Britain is a desirable place to live mainly because it is an island, which most people can’t get to. Peter Hitchens Read Quote
A world without a proper day of rest is like a landscape without hedgerows, trees, or landmarks: a howling, featureless wilderness in which we incessantly seek pleasure because we cannot find happiness. Peter Hitchens Read Quote
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 Read Quote
