Simon Hoggart
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"Simon David Hoggart" was an English journalist and broadcaster. He wrote on politics for The Guardian, and on wine for The Spectator. Until 2006 he presented The News Quiz on Radio 4.

His journalism sketches have been published in a series of books.

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She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.

The current Conservative leadership contest is remarkable for many reasons, ... Not least the fact that it's the first for 40 years that hasn't been dominated by Margaret Thatcher.

That is writing with balls, it seems to me.

The nanny seemed to be extinct until 1975, when, like the coelacanth, she suddenly and unexpectedly reappeared in the shape of Margaret Thatcher.

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. . .

America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these.

Disney World has acquired by now something of the air of a national shrine. American parents who don't take their children there sense obscurely that they have failed in some fundamental way, like Muslims who never made it to Mecca.