Peter Hitchens

“MPs do not work for you. They work for the lobbyists who have bought their parties.”

“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.”

“I still don't understand why we need a gigantic airport sprawled across South East England. What does it gain us, compared with the misery of noise, pollution and congestion it causes in our cramped country? Would it really be so bad if we had to take a train to Paris or Amsterdam to fly to the U.S.A.?”

“Radical multicultural types will, in the end, destroy the things they claim to like, because they don't understand that liberty and reasonable equality are features of stable, free, conservative societies based on Christian ideas, which guard their borders and are proud of their civilisation.”

“Our pious horror at the intolerant and repressive behaviour of Islamic State is bitterly funny, given that it is really not that different from the policies of our close ally, Saudi Arabia.”

“Man without conscience is wilder and more dangerous than any beast.”

“The picture of Prince Charles meeting Gerry Adams is inexpressibly sad.”

“Nobody under the age of 55 should be able to stand for election, and nobody under the age of 30 should be able to vote in those elections.”

“If I never again had to read or write a word about homosexuals, I would be very happy.”

“At every future election, there should be a slot, at the top of each ballot paper, in which we can put a cross against 'None of the below.'”

“If it's for everyone, it's not exclusive.”

“The safest period of my lifetime was the Cold War, when Europe was more sharply divided than ever.”

“The BBC TV programme 'Back In Time For Dinner' doesn't just have one of the cleverest titles ever. It is a more-than-usually-serious attempt to recreate the recent past, the day before yesterday.”

“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.”

“In a supposedly free and equal country, there is no excuse for our rulers having VIP treatment. On the contrary, there is every reason for them to get what we get, hot and strong.”

“The point of Left-wing propaganda is to make us feel powerless.”

“Thanks to centuries of island freedom, when we were able to decide who came in and who didn't, it is far easier to disappear in Britain than in almost any other country in the world.”

“We say we want politicians who are open and honest. And then, when we get one, we angrily pelt him with slime until he cringes to the mob, starts hiding his real views, and hires a spin doctor just like all the others.”

“It's interesting how thrillers reflect the times we live in.”

“Fear is good and useful when it's deployed on the side of common sense.”