Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

How do You Make Grown Men Weep? https://t.co/aPTLkfz3af — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes, .@curtainsilicon, we know that you get your opinions about the matter from the BBC, and so know nothing about Russia. But why should innocents continue to die and be driven from their homes because people like you are gullible and ill-informed? Seems unfair. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

And let big business do it instead, ruining even more lives than in the current arrangement .@bellawallersteiner? How would that be good? Also, all experience shows that criminal gangs thrive alongside legal dope markets.. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@circenm1. I do not presume to deride your beliefs from a position of zero knowledge. I advise you to adopt the same policy. There is powerful *evidence* for religious belief but no *proof* .You really should know the difference. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@kirmontmusard . I am suggesting nothing except that there should be serious peace talks in which the major powers use all their influence to bring about a lasting settlement.This is how wars end.This one began in 2014 with the US-backed overthrow of Ukraine’s elected president. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @danmuygallo: @ChrisHall250TPI @ClarkeMicah I've seen both. I also saw the leg bones of a kid I put through basic training poking out of… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

This is baseless hysteria, @curtainsilicon. I did nothing of the kind. May I suggest a cold compress, a darkened room and perhaps some Whale Music? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@curtainsilicon. Classic false choice. Nobody is suggesting ‘capitulation’ or has the power to impose it. The aim of peace talks would be a workable, lasting compromise. I have told you this before, but you prefer to avoid it with propaganda talk of ‘capitulation’ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I suggest you read it on another browser.@danorchard — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@.@circenm1 The two are wholly different and in many ways opposite. Perhaps you just have not thought very hard before sending this tweet.. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@tim_rigby. I * have* lived in Russia. That is one of the reasons why I think you are ignorant and silly. I can give you more, on application. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@tim_rigby I am so old that I can remember when that ancient cliche was witty and original. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@janetworstnop. I have no idols. I also recognise, as you appear not to do, that opinions differ among Ukrainians. Pre-putsch Ukraine was almost evenly divided between those who looked East and those who looked West. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ChrisHall250TPI: @ClarkeMicah I've not seen war, but I have seen what happens when a bullet passes through human flesh. Both are extrem… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@curtainsilicon. You have invented the claim that there would have been a 'rosy future' under Yanukovych. I did not make it. Why have you then put it in quotes? Unscrupulous. No cause is admissible in the war, in my view.That is why I condemn it,and *all* those who began it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

It *might* be, .@curtainsilicon, but as it turned out the people in Ukraine who overthrew its nascent democracy, destroyed its opposition and set it on course for war within and without were those you support. Oranges are not the only fruit. Putin is not the only monster. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Alas, this was not a difficult prediction to make (the date was August 2022) . Only fools do not hate war. Everyone who has seen it wants it ended. How are ordinary Ulkrainans benefiting from this prolongation? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: .@curtainsilicon. You are terribly out of date. George Washington University has established beyond doubt, through docume… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

A (not so) Brief History of Crimea . You may be surprised. https://t.co/sGex7JYQkl — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@janetworstnop , @curtainsilicon This is useful in any thinking about Crimea. Actual research from before the internet: https://t.co/sGex7JYQkl — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@janetworstnop 'Worthless barren desert'? Have you been to Crimea? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Interesting how noisy Western moral scruples about ex-KGB dictators, lack of democracy etc apply only in some cases. I recommend thoughtful people take a look at Azerbaijan. https://t.co/HdNXexcdJr — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @rhydy1945: @ClarkeMicah I always enjoy listening to Peter, agree with him most of the time. Grammar School, and Secondary Modern school… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

UN report shows mistreatment of PoWs by both sides. My response: Condemnation without question. Response of @curtainsilicon: 'atrocities can NEVER be condoned, but that may not be realistic in a war scenario' .Eh? : Ukraine / Russia: Prisoners of war https://t.co/vJj7P6fjZY — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: Hey , .@siliconcurtain, that would be a fine slogan ' 'Come to free-ish Ukraine - we have more and stronger oligarchs!' — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@curtainsilicon, That was why I contacted the UN to obtain their report on mistreatment of PoWs. Here it is https://t.co/PRNWzMs6v3 Note that I, ceaselessly slandered as a Russia apologist,condemn without question the misdeeds of both sides. *You* wriggle about 'proportions' — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@curtainsilicon shows, as somebody does every day, that there is indeed one born every minute. Look, all corrupt countries have 'crackdowns' on corruption. Yet they remain, mysteriously, just as corrupt as they were before. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

My column in the Mail on Sunday tomorrow: Labour moans about crime. But it did the most to ruin the old law-abiding world https://t.co/RESu3mGWB2 via @mailplus — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thanks @janienthechef1. they're probably ethereal because I have such a feeble camera. Oxford Castle is very different now from in the days of Stephen and Matilda, and I have found it quite hard to photograph. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Then again, @johnmellis. If external 'help' (including a lawless putsch against Ukrane's elected government in 2014) had not involved itself in Ukraine, Ukraine might now be at peace. — PolitiTweet.org