When I rather guiltily read the books on which the TV series 'Game Of Thrones' is based, I was struck by one thing. The whole point of this saga is that ruthlessness pays, that evil generally wins, that justice is non-existent, and utter cynicism the only wisdom. It is the Middle Ages without the saving grace of Christianity.

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Abortion is the only event that modern liberals think too violent and obscene to portray on TV. This is not because they are squeamish or prudish. It is because if people knew what Abortion really looked like, it would destroy their pretence that it is a civilized answer to the problem of what to do about unwanted babies.

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Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?

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Evolution is an unproven theory. If what its fundamentalist supporters believe is true, fishes decided to grow lungs and legs and walk up the beach. The idea is so comically daft that only one thing explains its survival-that lonely, frightened people wanted to expel God from the Universe because they found the idea that He exists profoundly uncomfortable.

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lonely beach believe

A nation is the sum of its memories, and when those memories are allowed to die, it is less of a nation.

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nations dies memories

Freedom of speech is freedom above all for those whose views you dislike most.

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you freedom-of-speech speech freedom

The sad truth is that mass migration, whatever the colour of the skins of those involved, upsets and worries indigenous people, especially the poorest.

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truth-is sad truth people

News isn't just what happens. It's what a fairly small group of people decide is news.

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small group news people

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

Peter Hitchens

everyone exclusive

If you really want to conceal something, leave it lying about where everyone can see it.

Peter Hitchens

leave see you want

The self-righteous supporters of mass immigration think the rest of us are stupid and evil.

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rest think stupid evil

Rigid, state-enforced sex equality is a Marxist policy, pursued to the outer limits in the old East Germany and now being adopted here.

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being equality limits sex

Terror works by surprise.

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All we have and are is based on the Christian faith, which has shaped law, government, morals, music, landscape, and education here for a thousand years.

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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.'

Peter Hitchens

top election future paper

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.

Peter Hitchens

day dinner time past

Successful state schools work because charismatic heads or teachers are terrific bluffers, giving the impression that they are to be feared while knowing in their hearts that they have no real power.

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Gleeful, unembarrassed ruthlessness, once rightly kept in check, has become normal among us, and 'Game Of Thrones' is a success because this change is now more or less complete.

Peter Hitchens

more game change success

The Channel is an international waterway through which the Russians are quite free to pass - and over which we have no exclusive right.

Peter Hitchens

right over free through

There is no such thing as a 'right to buy.' Proper conservatives don't believe in invented, taxpayer-subsidised rights, a creation of liberals. They believe in freedom. And the break-up of council estates was one of the most unconservative things that ever happened, making life harder for young families and destroying settled communities.

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creation freedom life believe

Anyone who seriously wants to keep Scotland in the U.K. must seek to stop the rise of the SNP, not to fuel and encourage it.

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