Peter Hitchens

“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.”

“Gleeful, unembarrassed ruthlessness, once rightly kept in check, has become normal among us, and 'Game Of Thrones' is a success because this change is now more or less complete.”

“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.”

“Actually, I never wanted an E.U. referendum, and I think those who called for it will one day wish they hadn't.”

“You know you are old when what you still think of as recent films are remade.”

“Work, especially if you're lucky in what you do, is one of the great pleasures of life, but - like all pleasures - it can become selfish.”

“All we have and are is based on the Christian faith, which has shaped law, government, morals, music, landscape, and education here for a thousand years.”

“Real conservatives are in favour of all kinds of unelected power and authority.”

“I fear crazy cyclists just as much as I fear inconsiderate drivers. They are like cultists, dressed up like huge insects in dehumanising uniforms, so sure they are saving the planet that they care little for its inhabitants.”

“News isn't just what happens. It's what a fairly small group of people decide is news.”

“Comprehensive schools, as too few understand, have never been designed to improve education.”

“How I shall miss Alan Rickman, his beautiful command of English, and a voice he played like a musical instrument.”

“Successful state schools work because charismatic heads or teachers are terrific bluffers, giving the impression that they are to be feared while knowing in their hearts that they have no real power.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“For every cyclist who jumps a red light, a thousand drivers break speed limits or gape dangerously at their smartphones while driving.”

“Female politicos mostly represent a rather militant faction.”

“The giant fraud that is Britain's education system strides ever onwards, messing up many more lives than it improves.”

“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.”