Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@desgg41164958 Your local Tesco superstore has parallels with the Acropolis.But it isn’t remotely the same.Few these days know much about the great crisis of 1938-40. But even fewer know anything about Ukraine. In this atmosphere,real knowledge just makes you unpopular. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@olistge. Jolly good. Believe what you like. ButI am mystified by your stuff about ‘great powers’ since my thinking begins with the failure of many in the west to grasp that the ideological global USSR is finished. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I am so sorry that I missed this. The urgent matters of the modern world keep us from these fascinating corners of knowledge. I once (on Sark) saw a Book of Common Prayer in French. Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford only stopped using Latin in the 19th century.. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@jordan54941136 You are quite right about the horrible destruction and general misery affecting Ukraine and its people. But the ‘west’ has no common motive The USA and the newer NATO members differ from, for instance, France and Germany. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@oliusthe You establish nothing by just asserting it. You obviously disagree with me, but that may not be because I don’t understand the subject. It may be because I have different concerns. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@dirkstruan1982 Because I can say (and have many times said) this and it makes no impact. But a general in the armed forces of a supposed close ally will be given more attention. The USA’s true view of our forces is seldom spoken, but they’re really not that into us. https://t.co/WPO2ZJYYkQ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

It is never a waste of time to rebut opponents reasonably in public debate. it helps to refine my positions and may also help and/ or influence others towards rationality. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@erolycm . I. rather doubt it. Ukraine is the proxy of the USA (Leon Panetta, former CIA chief, Defense Secretary and White House Chief of Staff has publicly stated this) and lacks the money or weapons to pursue war on its own. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@migintyallan Just search for “Peter Hitchens” and “Brief history of Crimea” . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: @genderonly . I am partial in that I think the interests of the UK and its people are not served (and may be damaged) by o… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I think my readers know when to restrain their pedantry. Everyone knows thus, but why let it spoil a good formulation?? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@genderonly . I am partial in that I think the interests of the UK and its people are not served (and may be damaged) by our govt’s unexplained support of the USA’s conflict with Russia. This is simple British patriotism. I support my own country. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thanks, my pleasure .@bernie01784773 . It’s pre-internet archive research and you won’t easily find it elsewhere. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Quite , .@richardoarke15 .@ionaitalia But the treatment of Ukraine as a saint among nations is preventing thought or discussion of the compromise peace that must eventually emerge. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@neilkenny0 But I make my partiality clear. The danger comes from the hundreds of partial reporters who claim to be unbiased. By the way, does it occur to you that you might be mistaken and that others might reasonably differ from you? A lesson from philosophy. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@bernie01784773 A (not so) Brief History of Crimea https://t.co/sGex7JZo9T — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

It’s very complicated. I will send you a link — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @EditorsUK: The Society expresses “deep concern” following a report that government units set up to tackle fake news recorded the commen… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @arco295828: @ramzpaul Read Abolition of Britain by Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @BdhTraining: @freddiesayers @ClarkeMicah I watched an early Unherd with Peter recently - only Peter and Lord Sumption were openly fight… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Ukraine never had a nuclear arsenal There were Soviet nuclear weapons in Ukraine.Ukraine (like Kazakhstan) did not control and could not secure them. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@bernardgress. Professional, experienced, impartial OPCW inspectors have cast doubt on it and have communicated this to me. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Stop making stuff up @pieops. You have no idea what I think or say. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Interesting contrast between government machismo over Ukraine and our actual military readiness, which makes Ethelred the Unready look well-prepared. British Army has 'fallen behind its peers and needs investment' https://t.co/ZSuSelb3Ge via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Profound and moving. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@isaacclay170493 I think he is an establishment liberal. I have never observed anything conservative about him. There's a tendency among journalists to think any politician who reads books, and has travelled beyond Bognor, is an intellectual. I do not do this. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @fngalb: @ClarkeMicah @HEPI_news Regarding the anti- review, this one makes me want to gouge my eyes out: describing the path not taken,… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Says who , @pieops? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@oliusthe So if you *think * I hold a view which I don't hold, then I hold it? I was born during the Cold WAr, . In what way is my grasp of geopolitcs weak rather than just different from yours? Are you in fact Dr Who? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I think judges and magistartes should be much more free to sentence on the basis of their knowledge of the case than they are now .@kevfoyo Some second offences deserve quite tough penalties. But very long senetences are very seldom justfied or effective. — PolitiTweet.org