Simon Hoggart

Simon Hoggart (born 1946-05-26) is a British journalist and broadcaster.

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• Peter Mandelson is the only man I know who can skulk in broad daylight.
  • Hoggart's Guardian column 11 Sep 2004

• Reagan is the only man to take the presidency as a part-time job, a means of filling up the otherwise empty hours of retirement.
  • Hoggart's Guardian column 11 Sep 2004

• Seeing John Major govern the country is like watching Edward Scissorhands try to make balloon animals.
  • Hoggart's Guardian column 11 Sep 2004

• Curiously, it is hard not to be a little optimistic about the future for Zimbabwe (as nobody at all calls it yet, except in political speeches). The fear is not that there will be mass slaughter of the whites, followed by their flight to South Africa and the collapse of the economy, but that the need to retain white confidence may mean that the blacks are badly disappointed.
  • Hoggart's Guardian column 9 Feb 1980

• Mr Arbuthnot did not respond, but sat with a thin, weak smile, like winter sunshine upon a coffin lid.
  • Quoted by Rod Liddell, Guardian, 18 Sep 2002

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• I'm often amazed at the way politicians — who spend hours poring over opinion poll results in a desperate attempt to discover what the public thinks — are certain they know precisely what God's views are on everything.