Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

If Rishi Sunak wants to appeal to actual conservatives, he should bin the modern obsession with ‘human rights’ and restore our ancient freedoms instead : https://t.co/ckUjInzp92 via @mailplus — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@djneils98 Anecdote-filled? It is made up of reports of criminal trials in professionally run newspapers who would risk contempt proceedings if they were inaccurate. I don’t dismiss these poor people who’ve bern misled. I am enraged by the cynics who have misled them. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Then perhaps it was not very good, .@comp_future Please tell me how you know that ‘anyone who applies can get in’ to the ‘majority of good comprehensives’ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes, but strikes are the crudest weapon in collective bargaining.. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Because it is not true.. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

They never will — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@jprnyct. Not all. My book quotes some of the few exceptions. But a lot, and in all those cases this policy outrages what they claim are their principles. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes @comp_future. This is because comp zealots like you have been ( shamefully) calling them failures for 50 years. Nobody else has, just you lot. It has an effect.Yet the biggest failure of the last half century has been comprehensive schooling, which you still promote & defend. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

See my full reply . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@comp_future. But there was a test . It went like this “ How much money do your parents have?” . This is what modern ‘socialists’ support. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Of a sort, .@comp_future!? There either is, or there isn't. There is. What a miserable, grudging admission. How thoroughly do you reckon the nameless reviewer has read it? https://t.co/9UIbo8zWdr — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Of a sort! , .@comp_future !? There either is, or there isn't. There is. What a miserable, grudging admission. How thoroughly do you reckon the nameless reviewer has read it? https://t.co/9UIbo8zWdr — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Of a sort! , @comp_future? There eitehr is, or theure isn't. There is. What a miserable, grudging admission. How thoroughly do you reckon the nameless reviewer has read it? https://t.co/9UIbo8zWdr — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: Some thoughts on Philip Larkin, T.S.Eliot and Whitsun: https://t.co/zBAxgnOjoe — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

So what, @jemmyhope? If you knew anything about me you'd know I have given up all hope of restoring grammars. But must we not write about, say, the folly of entering WW1, because 'that ship has sailed'? (horrible cliche, isn't it?) — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I have now responded to this bilge, here https://t.co/9UIbo8zWdr — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@comp_future My Response to a Hostile Review of my book on grammar schools, by 'Comprehensive Future' https://t.co/9UIbo8zWdr — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

On the contrary , .@comp_future, anypone who has read the book (I recommend especially pages 124 to 127), would know that there is indeed evidence to back it up, and that I cite it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I also hope to be speaking in Durham on the evening of Monday 6th February, again on the topic of the Ukraine war. https://t.co/BcpEtwLI3X — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @SDP_Alex: Attention York folk and people that are able to get to York. Some friends and I are hosting the one and only @ClarkeMicah for… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I'll be speaking about the Ukraine war in York (though not, as originally planned, on the University campus) on Tuesday 7th February . Sign up here https://t.co/rxy1dDx2Dl — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Listen https://t.co/Mowd7eHxHe at 1:39:52 and hear the BBC's Nick Robinson say 'Kiev' instead of the normal impartial BBC pronunciation of the Ukrainian capital, 'Keith' . Will there be complaints from President Zelensky, who seems to regard this country as his servant? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

How very true .@comp_future. But your review is a cartoon. I have no belief in a past golden age, and have many times explicitly emphasised this fact .Yet your reviewer incorrectly states that I do. The whole of the rest of the review totters on this pimple of piffle. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@yakleftie. That is a separate question. The question whether it is morally proper for those in the professions of mercy to strike *at all*. I say it is not. The idea that striking is the only way to obtain proper rewards is fatuous. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@zomboscasa. I *never* ride my bicycle on the motorway. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@smeeghee . I am by no means sure that is true. A *lot* of money was spent on buildings etc for Secondary Mods. 'The state' did no really ahve much a of a preference for grammars, either. It made little effort to build badly-needed new grammars 1944-65. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Fascinating @helengunter10. Can you give a bit more detail about the dates and how old you were when these changes came? Quite a few Secondary Mod pupils went on to get degrees long before comprehensives came in. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @kynohy: @ClarkeMicah @Elvaennia 5/ @ClarkeMicah https://t.co/oQrhXDZGcs — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @kynohy: @ClarkeMicah @Elvaennia 6/ @ClarkeMicah https://t.co/Uidwy82vGe — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

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