Simon Hoggart's week: An Olympian PR effort
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
Simon Hoggart: Much of the Olympics coverage involves our plucky commentators, Team BBC, letting us down gently
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Stephen Pollard (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Simon Hoggart had this lovely story on Saturday: The death of Simon Gray lets me reprise a favourite story. He was a close friend of Harold Pinter, a great cricket lover. Once Pinter wrote a poem about his hero Len Hutton. It read, in its entirety "I saw Hutton in his prime / Another time, another time." He sent it to several of his friends. Soon afterwards Pinter and Gray were...
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Simon Hoggart's sketch: Chutzpah and cocktails
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Simon Hoggart: The prime minister has accused the Tories of playing party politics with our armed forces
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Simon Hoggart's sketch: Pith taken out of Purnell
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Simon Hoggart: James Purnell used to babysit for the Blairs, and yesterday he demonstrated that he still cares for their children
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Simon Hoggart's week: The great handbag of state
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Simon Hoggart: Here's a sentence you don't often read: I've been reading a really interesting book by Norman Fowler
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Simon Hoggart's sketch: All fired up in Clegg's kitchen
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Simon Hoggart: Nick Clegg has launched an exciting new Lib Dem policy document
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Simon Hoggart's sketch: Out with a bang of heads
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Simon Hoggart: The weekly PMQ session is often baffling to newcomers, but we aficionados find it fascinating
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Simon Hoggart's sketch: The shift to posh power
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Simon Hoggart: Boris Johnson yesterday enlisted Shakespeare. It was a small yet defining moment in the shift back to posh power
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Simon Hoggart: Cheeky concern and Brown's cunning plan
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Simon Hoggart: It was a nervous, tense House of Commons - nobody knew for certain whether Lembit Opik had broken up with his Cheeky Girl
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Simon Hoggart's week: Snouts, troughs and gravy trains
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Simon Hoggart: 'Gravy train' seems an inadequate description of the new high-speed railway service between Brussels and Strasbourg for MEPs
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Simon Hoggart's sketch: Stranded on Dithering Heights
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Simon Hoggart: Poor Gordon Brown. That 'Heathcliff' tag will be round his neck for a very long time
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Simon Hoggart's sketch: The admiral does his duty
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Simon Hoggart: I felt sorry for Admiral Lord West, the soi-disant "simple sailor", who had to sketch out the government's case
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Simon Hoggart's sketch: Mr Badger and the quango
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Simon Hoggart: Hilary Benn has announced that he will not permit the culling of badgers to stop the spread of TB among cattle
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The importance of being Irish
The Herald (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Sebastian Barry & Hugo HamiltonStar rating *****Rose Prince & John ReaderStar rating ****Simon Hoggart Star rating ***Yesterday's audience was smitten by the storytelling of Irish writers Sebastian Barry and Hugo Hamilton, both of whom addressed the thorny issues of personal and national identity in dark but different ways.Barry's Secret Scripture tells the story of a 100-year-old woman...
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Prime Hutton
The Debatable Land (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Lovely story told by Simon Hoggart in his Guardian column at the weekend: The death of Simon Gray lets me reprise a favourite story. He was a close friend of Harold Pinter, a great cricket lover. Once Pinter wrote a poem about his hero Len Hutton. It read, in its entirety "I saw Hutton in his prime / Another time, another time." He sent it to several of his friends. Soon afterwards...
