Of the 664 men who rode into the Valley of Death about 540 eventually got out of it again. By far the highest casualty rate was among the horses. Compared with the Somme or an evening in the Blitz, the Valley of Death was a piece of cake.
This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to perfectly ac… - Simon Heffer
This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to perfectly ac…
- Simon Heffer
Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all the worst aspects of ou… - Simon Heffer
Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all the worst aspects of ou…
The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life. - Simon Heffer
The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.
Of the 664 men who rode into the Valley of Death about 540 eventually got out of it again. By far the highest casualty rate was among the horses. Com… - Simon Heffer
Of the 664 men who rode into the Valley of Death about 540 eventually got out of it again. By far the highest casualty rate was among the horses. Com…
Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad. - Simon Heffer
Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad.
The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better. - Simon Heffer
The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better.
If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices. - Simon Heffer
If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices.
Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle. - Simon Heffer
Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle.
In England, even the poorest of people believe that they have rights; that is very different from what satisfies the poor in other lands. - Simon Heffer
In England, even the poorest of people believe that they have rights; that is very different from what satisfies the poor in other lands.
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