 In later works, such as "The Way We Live Now" (1995), he regretted the decline in moral authority that he held religion once provided.He also attacked contemporary education for its emphasis on the 'vocational', and 'cultural relativism' for its tendency to concentrate on the popular and meretricious.One of his two sons was the political journalist Simon Hoggart, who predeceased him by three months, and the other is the television critic Paul Hoggart.