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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
I believe this Thursday February 9 talk on my Grammar School book 'A Revolution Betrayed' has now been moved to a larger room at Blackwell's Bookshop in Oxford . So those who have been disappointed may now be able to obtain tickets https://t.co/MHyGsciVk5 — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@elvaennia. Yes, I am bothered. I think the argument needs pursuing. I am utterly sick of the repeated false claim that Secondary Modern schools and their pupils were universally regarded as failures. It is one of the biggest lies in modern politics. — PolitiTweet.org
carol arnall @Elvaennia
@ClarkeMicah But surely you are not bothered Peter? I would thank him if I were you!
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
Defend away .@robgordon1, but there's no real attack. I long ago gave up hope that this country would restore selection by ability, as brutal but convenient selection by wealth (supported by you) suits more influential people. 'Good work and progress' is funny. — PolitiTweet.org
rob gordon @robgordon1
@ClarkeMicah I was merely defending the secondary sector from the idea that we do not offer very good opportunities… https://t.co/cgIH0HcQsQ
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
Most certainly, yes .@rosiemrsk . But I keep it for special occasions. — PolitiTweet.org
Rosie_MrsK @RosieMrsk
@ClarkeMicah @Botsworth do you ever swear?
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@comp_future. I greatly enjoyed this arrant piffle. I urge people to read it, then to read my book 'A Revolution Betrayed' and see what they think. — PolitiTweet.org
Comprehensive Future @comp_future
A review of 'A Revolution Betrayed: How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System' by @ClarkeMicah. This po… https://t.co/J2Jl67xsNr
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
Yes, this is the same Sir Philip Pullman, knight of the realm, who says I have not been civil enough to him (he means subservient enough) in a Twitter argument, and so has blocked me. — PolitiTweet.org
Jay Marley @JayMarl86054229
@ClarkeMicah This Philip Pullman? https://t.co/05MUgLr5Kk
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
2/2 .@e_powellian This has bene the New left approach to crime. Declare that it is no longer crime, and relax. Fine if you're rich and well-protected. therwise, the devil take the hindmost. — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
1/2 .@e_powellian . It became obvious years ago that bike theft had ceased to be a crime. Shoplifting too. Drug po… https://t.co/3MkrOxVehS
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@thercn This is twaddle. Nurses, whose actual job is to tend the sick and injured, cannot *protect* patients by striking,so *ceasing* to tend the sick and injured. As a result,there will be avoidable suffering.Many of your members have quite rightly decided not to support this. — PolitiTweet.org
The RCN @theRCN
Enough is enough. We are striking to protect patients, our profession, and the NHS. Add your name to our open lett… https://t.co/U5X5kNYAql
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
1/2 .@e_powellian . It became obvious years ago that bike theft had ceased to be a crime. Shoplifting too. Drug possession came soon afterwards, along with car theft and burglary. I *think* murder is still illegal, but not much else is, in practice. — PolitiTweet.org
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@ClarkeMicah @TomWhipple Total collapse in law and order
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
So sorry, my tweet refers to wrong Tom Whipple. Shuld refer to @whippletom. — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
‘It can sometimes feel as though bike theft is legal’ writes .@tomwhipple , who recounts ‘I have owned 11 bikes. T… https://t.co/96GmuKi9uz
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
‘It can sometimes feel as though bike theft is legal’ writes .@tomwhipple , who recounts ‘I have owned 11 bikes. This is how they were stolen…’ https://t.co/AopRvvEONu — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@djneils98. What ‘flounce’? It is clearly Sir Philip Pullman who has flounced, deeply offended that anyone should dare to disagree with him. I am still here. I have not blocked @philippullman . I very rarely block.. — PolitiTweet.org
greg smith @djneils98
@shaunmwing @shaun_hutchings @ClarkeMicah That was funny you've got to admit. I am surprised at you getting so invo… https://t.co/OQhwS3n6GQ
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@botsworth . You have not said that tome until now though I. am glad you now admit it. When did Yanukovych resign? Of course he fled. His life was in danger from a violent putsch. You too would have fled. So bleeping what? — PolitiTweet.org
Philip Talbot @Botsworth
@ClarkeMicah I have agreed that the constitutional impeachment process wasn’t formally followed. I have argued that… https://t.co/b5vH5ty7od
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@robgordon1. If you are a teacher, you will of course know that Oxbridge entry levels are not a constant, especially since 1997, and therefore cannot be used to claim that standards in general have been maintained. Try to avoid ad hominem remarks. They weaken your case. — PolitiTweet.org
rob gordon @robgordon1
@ClarkeMicah I have been a secondary school teacher for nearly thirty years and in that time have had many students… https://t.co/bJxGRmYgly
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
Indeed. — PolitiTweet.org
AlexanderRDC @implyingAlex
@ClarkeMicah From John Lord’s Beacon Lights of History volumes. Discussing the English Revolution, but could apply… https://t.co/KaCovQcqaK
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
@Mc77Jimmy Grammars were for the academic. Secondary Mods were more vocational. The division still exists, but it is now based on the wealth of your parents rather than on your ability, and both the academic and vocational schools are much less good. — PolitiTweet.org
JimmyMc77 @Mc77Jimmy
@ClarkeMicah If Seco dary Moderns were fine. What was the point of Grammars?
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
The utterly fascinating thing about this quotation ( apart from the fact that it vanished from the web for some months) is that supporters of Sir Philip Pullman were so reluctant to accept that he had said these words, though he clearly had done so. — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
Philip Pullman tells the Washington Post :"I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief." Adding "Mr [C.S.… https://t.co/KpUowsbHjJ
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@robgordon1. In what way was I rude? Please give direct quotations. I plainly won the argument. Sir Philip was quite unable to say who it was who dismissed secondary modern pupils as failures, having claimed this dismissal was universal. It is a left-wing myth. — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@koknaijin. If your comprehension is poor, it is best to stay out of other people's debates:My point is clear and simple. The claim that Secondary Modern pupils were universally dismissed as failures is false. It has been invented by the left, in their campaign against grammars. — PolitiTweet.org
Kokunaijin @kokunaijin
@PhilipPullman @ClarkeMicah @PhilipUllman What is there to continue? No point he made, no glimmer of reason, just "… https://t.co/lSf0LKgDka
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@botsworth. You too would have run away, if you feared for your life as he did. He did nothing which permitted his removal under law. Ceausescu was not legitimately elected in a free, contested poll. Yanukovych was. I am not 'indignant', just truthful, unlike you. — PolitiTweet.org
Philip Talbot @Botsworth
@ClarkeMicah He ran away on 21 Feb. Just wondering: do you feel the same way about, let’s say, the overthrow of Ce… https://t.co/pGUC6wTZJC
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
How do Good People Manage to Live in a World that is Mad? https://t.co/qBjI3LAzY4 — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@c_m_bianca .@kynohy See : https://t.co/qBjI3LAzY4 — PolitiTweet.org
Carol Bianca @C_M_Bianca
@kynohy @ClarkeMicah @________DanielK Definitely get the book. It’s a true story of the Suvorov family, it spans fr… https://t.co/OHHimlgfO5
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
@stevenh18526660 Why on earth would @philippullman block me if I had lost? It is losers who block. Sir Philip @philippullman has been notably rude on twitter. I don't think I was at all rude to him. — PolitiTweet.org
steven hughes @stevenh18526660
@ClarkeMicah You lost the argument and were rude - that’s why you were blocked.
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
I am much of your opinion .@ben_kew. But, as Sam Johnson would have pointed out, millions of copies have even so, been sold. Yet I wonder how many were bought for children by atheist parents, and how many read to the end? I struggled with the later volumes. — PolitiTweet.org
Ben Kew 🐶 @ben_kew
@ClarkeMicah His Dark Materials is without a doubt the most overrated work of magic realism in the 21st century.
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@Jamesonvrowton. It is amazing how people assume the past was just like the present. — PolitiTweet.org
Margaret Timothy @JamesonCrowton
@Martin_Rivers26 @PhilipPullman @ClarkeMicah I went to a Grammar School, in the 60s. No one was streamed for univer… https://t.co/ekzK3w4qxd
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
Glad to hear it. — PolitiTweet.org
Margaret Timothy @JamesonCrowton
@PhilipPullman @ClarkeMicah I had friends and family who did not pass the 11+ no one I know was branded or felt like a failure.
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
I hope she returns it. Conor and Zhanna, with whom I disagree about almost everything, are very fine people, and the book a great tribute to them. — PolitiTweet.org
Carol Bianca @C_M_Bianca
@ClarkeMicah No, thank you. I loved it and don’t give books away easily. I tried to buy another for my sister, but… https://t.co/wtnAusbkJ5
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
RT @ClarkeMicah: .@botsworth. Here are the details .This is from Richard Sakwa's book 'Frontline Ukraine'. — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
The CNBC story https://t.co/QEFyCwRszz refers to a domestic debt raised by public subscription, far smaller than the huge (now £225 billion) debt owed to the USA and untouched since 1934. — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
@moates. The article is mistaken. Britain could not possibly afford to pay the 1914-18 debt to the USA, now swollen… https://t.co/BKtulZvVdx
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
@moates. The article is mistaken. Britain could not possibly afford to pay the 1914-18 debt to the USA, now swollen to more than £225,000,000,000. Our total annual budget is approx £1,182,000,000,000. — PolitiTweet.org
Mark Oates @MOates_
@Tonyvanminn @Joshua_D_Thom @ClarkeMicah https://t.co/I4rJKEJPEi
