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Simon David Hoggart (26 May 1946 – 5 January 2014) 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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The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself.

Chinese, Consumption, Home, Make, Wine

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

Class, Daily, Daily Mail, Imagine, Misery, Unremitting

Fish have water, the bushmen of the Kalahari have sand, and Houstonians have interior décor.

Bushmen, Sand, Texas, Water

Reagan was a flesh and blood version of any other mute national emblem, say the Statue of Liberty. Everyone knows what she represents, but no one would dream of asking her opinion.

Blood, Dream, Emblem, Everyone, Liberty, Say

Peter Mandelson is the only man I know who can skulk in broad daylight.

Broad, Daylight, Men, Peter

The British are the last national group who can be insulted by Hollywood without any comeback. These days if you depict Italians as gangsters, Saudis as terrorists or Mexicans as violent drug dealers you'll never hear the end of it. But as still the largest - and possibly the richest - ethnic group in the States, the British just have to take it.

Drug, Groups, Hollywood, Italians, Mexicans

Remember how Margaret Thatcher came to believe that abroad was more important than at home? Didn't do her much good.

Believe, Home, Important, Margaret, Thatcher

Watching the Commons tribute to Margaret Thatcher was like being suffocated inside a gigantic sticky toffee pudding, but one with nasty bogeys planted inside. There was much of the 'Margaret Thatcher who was lucky enough to know me,' especially from her own side of the House.

Bogeys, House, Lucky, Planted, Pudding

British diplomats who worked in Iran during the 1980 hostage crisis are deeply upset by Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning film 'Argo,' which suggests they refused shelter to the group who managed to get out of the U. S. embassy.

Diplomats, Group, Hostage Crisis, Iran, Managed, Winning

I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when there was some huge worldwide story, the paper led its front page on some cabinet changes in Turkey. It implied a magnificent disdain for the quotidian folderol of mere news.

Changes, Front, News, Paris, Turkeys, Work

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.

Awesomely, Blue, Hero, Larger, Whales

The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.

Dinner, Formal, Funeral, Imperial, Party

All over the U. S. there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more odious than the rich, powerful and arrogant trying to keep it that way.

Care, Lives, Odious, People, Powerful, Sight

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.

Country, Fascinated, Love, People, Shopping, Unique

Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.

Like, New York, Party, Terrible, Tired, York

They're called Virgin Trains because they don't go all the way.

America, Trains, Virgin, Way, World

While it is entirely untrue that Canadians lack a sense of humour, the funniest ones tend to head south: Dan Aykroyd, Jim Carrey, Michael J. Fox.

Dan, Entirely, Fox, Foxes, Humour, Michael J Fox

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Jobs, New York, Rich, Sign, Star, Stars

When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a student, I was getting dressed in my ground-floor room when a family of Italians crossed the grass to watch, as if I were laid on for their amusement and instruction.

Cities, Dressed, Family, Foreign, Glasses, Wall

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else.

Atheist, Inspirational, Know, Lack, Motivational, Religion

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