Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@juliahb1 . It may take a bit longer to fix, owing to quite a few commitments on my side, but I'm delighted by your response and look forward to doing it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/2 @philnotbilly. Heard of Sean Russell, the IRA's Chief of Staff in 1939, who travelled on the eve of the WW2 to Nazi Germany to offer his services to Hitler? They gave him the use of a villa and chauffeured car in Berlin. Who paid respects at the monument to him in Dublin? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@philnotbilly It is still risky to speculate about who really runs Sinn Fein, but as recently as 2019 the Police Service of Northern Ireland confirmed its previous assessment that the IRA Army Council ‘retained its oversight’ of the party. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 @philnotbilly Mary Lou McDonald was mysteriously the only candidate for Sinn Fein's Dublin leadership in 2018. Her Northern counterpart, Michelle O’Neill, similarly emerged in a process about as transparent as a North Korean general election. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@philnotbilly. Have you heard of a party called Sinn Fein, at all, ever? Have you noticed how powerful they are in both parts of Ireland? If not, I recommend a trip to Specsavers, who can help with hearing and vision problems, but not (alas) with intelligence. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@AdamJoh04292263 No, it's not what I mean. I very much supported the attack on discrimination(and on Unionist domination) achieved by direct rule. Given the rage when I state truthfully that the 1998 agreement was a British defeat, and was appeasement, it is hardly a platitude. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@johnpauljonesin Are you not aware that the peace of Europe from 1945 to 1989 was based on a huge act of appeasement at Yalta? Would you have preferred that WW2 had continued after 1945, with the USA fighting the USSR? Have you ever seen war? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@johnpauljonesin. What 'appeasement strategy'? Appeasement is just a rude word for diplomacy you don't like. Doesn't the story of France vs Germany 1870-1945 suggest that bombastic demands for 'victory' seldom lead to lasting peace? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes, .@aytndub2, definitive proof that the IRA received no support from North America. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I hope to be in Durham on February 6 to speak about the Ukraine crisis https://t.co/WpyaLh7Tvm — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

This is the second of my two meetings in York on Tuesday 7th February :Book here . "An evening with Peter Hitchens: A Revolution Betrayed" https://t.co/hKn8u5CuV1 @Eventbrite — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@philnotbilly. Of course the IRA won. See... https://t.co/zXvApHllWG — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Of course the IRA won, or was Martin McGuinness somehow forced to don white tie and tails for dinner with the Queen at Windsor Castle? https://t.co/zXvApHllWG — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@philnotbilly. Be as rude as you like. I was reporting from Washington DC when the Clinton White House deliberately humiliated this country by granting a visa to Gerry Adams, the start of a process which led to the 1998 Belfast Agreement and British surrender. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@jcochrane711. You may have mistaken the aim here. Russia's defeat by Ukraine is of course possible. All kinds of upsets are. But these weapons are more likely to keep the war going indefinitely than to bring it to an end. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@AlisonH73216123 The motor car has quite enough defenders as it is. I don't support these measures, as I don't think drivers should be punished out of their cars. I think they should be encouraged.But I will not join the Clarksonites. More pedestrians , btw, mean safer streets. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: @JuliaHB1 Would you be very kind and respond to me about Ukraine? My suggestion is that we debate the issue before an aud… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Disturbed by suggestions that .@conwayhall, for as long as I can remember open to all kinds of dissent, has declined to host a meeting in opposition to the Ukraine War. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ConwayHall is it correct that you have declined a booking for a meeting which opposes the Ukraine War? I have fond memories of two debates in your hall (one with my late brother, the other more recently on Ukraine). Why would you do this (if you have)? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@JuliaHB1 Would you be very kind and respond to me about Ukraine? My suggestion is that we debate the issue before an audience. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Tickets once again avilable for this event in OXFORD on Thursday 9th February. "Peter Hitchens 'A Revolution Betrayed' with Nigel Warburton" https://t.co/gnhnKJJ8dd @Eventbrite — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Republished : The Nonsense of the 'Special Relationship' https://t.co/qG4Gke3hnd — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

‘The Times’ , preoccupied with cheering on foreign wars, notices what is going on in Britain, possibly for the first time.’Quickest way to level up is to stop the yobs’ https://t.co/fdUKPUB83p — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@stephenbottrill. Anyone may come. See, I am advertising these meetings here. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Wars are only just if they have a moral purpose and are proportionate to that purpose. Self defence obviously satisfies those conditions. Very few other things do. Wars are never good. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@nickrob68233560 Alas, no. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @DenisMacShane: Listening to it. Fascinating, worked as BBC journo in Birmingham same time as Don. Big thanks to @IainDale for an interv… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

This is the *second* of two events at which I hope to speak in York on the evening of Tuesday 7th February. You may book here.. https://t.co/73sYq0X3XR — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@paulashwin .I shall respond to this in more detail but I’m baffled by your claim that I offer no evidence for the decline in standards at universities.A lengthy passage, for example,deals with degree inflation.Perhaps you missed it.Perhaps you are unmoved by it. But it’s there — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@johnpauljonesin . There is,for certain, indisputable evidence that the US and UK fomented a violent putsch against Iran’s Premier, Mossadeq, in 1953. One of those involved used to be my MP. — PolitiTweet.org