Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @hardscarpe. As Richard Sakwa records in 'Frontline Ukraine', it was European Foreign Ministers who brokered a deal for early elections and constitutional concessions. The mob leaders rejected it. They weren't sure they'd win at the ballot box, I reckon. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 Of course they endorsed it @hardscrape. Do you recall the USA witholding recognition from Ukraine's post-putsch, unconstitutional govt? The Nuland-Pyatt conversation, which cocnerned the composition of a pro-nationalist cabinet, was held some days before the putsch. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Kind of you, .@marksaggers — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

It's not so much that I *agree* , .@talktv, . It's that I have been saying there's a cultural revolution for a quarter of a century and am glad to see that J.Clarkson, a figure beloved by the mainstream, is now saying the same, albeit far too late. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

If George W.Bush had not pushed for Ukraine to join NATO in 2008, and if the USA had not backed and endorsed the overthrow of Ukraine's legitimate President in 2014, this would not have happened. The idea that Russia is the only problem is absurd. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @hurshidpasha think that there are no oligarchs in Ukraine. ( see below) .Probably he thinks that there is no corruption there, and that speech is totally free etc, Can anyone help him out? I am a bit busy. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I wasn't the one who did the manipulating, .@Vytejok. But this description https://t.co/flAl3zmG3Y of earlier events gives some clues as to how crowd manipulation is done. Pease try not to be naive. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@hurshidpasha. Nobody would be killed, there would be no armed mob, the elected legitimate president would be removed (if at all) either by elections or through the lawful, constitutional impeachment procedure. None of these conditions was met in 2014 in Kiev. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@PeterThomas1607 Date? I'm slightly confused by this account, as many Secondary Mods offered GCE O levels from the early 1950s. Others offered A levels or switched pupils to grammars. The O level (as it had been) did not long survive the arrival of comps. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @TalkTV: Peter Hitchens warns that sending UK tanks to Ukraine could turn Europe into a radioactive graveyard: "The direction we're taki… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @TalkTV: Peter Hitchens agrees the UK is "in the grip of a cultural revolution in schools and broadcasting," after Jeremy Clarkson warne… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@hurshidpasha. Really? Ukrainians (in what was left of that country after the 2014 putsch and what followed) vted overwhelmingly for the peace candidate, Zelensky in theitr last presidential election. Ukraine's ultra-nationalists and oligarchs prevented him from pursuing peace. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@PhilipPullman You might also benefit from reading my discussion, in 'A Revolution Betrayed' of Joan Bakewell's own accounts of what happened to her and her sister. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@philipullman. Sorry, but quoting @michaelrosenyes on the issue hardly solves your problem. Michael's a lovely chap, but he's hardly an educational conservative. As I said, It is left-wingers who have created and nurtured this claim. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ellyrobso9 Lovely old @michaelrosenyes is hardly an impartial figure in this matter. For most British people before 1965, Secondary Modern or Junior Secondary (Scotland) was normal. And they got a better schooling than they would get now in comprehensives. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Distressing for sure @the_midwits. But not helpful to understanding. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

You have never heard of crowds being manipulated , @vytejok? This is interesting and well-informed https://t.co/flAl3zmG3Y — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@philippullman. That is just self-serving assertion without evidence. Give actual quotations or checkable instances. Dick Stroud’s book, much of which you could have read by now if you had heeded my urgings to download it, greatly undermines the claim. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: .@natzan481_ How do the ‘Slava Ukraini’ faction square their ( justified) jeering at Russian military failure with their… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

A challenge for .@philippullman. Can he come up with any instance of anyone -apart from left-wing campaigners against grammar schools - ever referring to Secondary Modern pupils as failures?The Left slander Secondary Mods and those who went to them.Then they blame it on grammars. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@toryrebuttal . I don’t think it’s in my style. Do tellbme if you think it is.. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No doubt. But this is an argument for reforming the marking of exams, not an argument against having exams or grammar schools. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @Good_Old_Blakey: @ClarkeMicah @Iromg THE most striking statements I heard today Mike & Peter discussing their early years of work. The… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @Iromg: Start the week with the home of common sense. Join me with @BrendanChilton @ClarkeMicah @Francis_Hoar @angelalevin1 @timkcpds an… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@natzan481_ How do the ‘Slava Ukraini’ faction square their ( justified) jeering at Russian military failure with their (absurd) belief that this ill-equipped, corrupt force will sweep all before it elsewhere?The myth of Russian conventional power is exploded. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @kynohy: @ClarkeMicah @AndrewBL1451 .@AndrewBL1451 It may disappear at any moment, but I still can see this video which includes a segme… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@sallywilts. I do not want anyone to surrender. I want serious negotiations aimed at creating a sustainable peace. Why not pay attention, and think? Do you *like* war? If not, you must seek an end to it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I plan to join .@iromg Mike Graham on .@talktv and .@talkradio, just after 11.00 AM, to discuss the unrelenting crisis.. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The Dog’s Bottom people were a bit slow this time. It took almost 24 hours for me to be assailed with slime by people who hadn’t read my article. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

That must be it. — PolitiTweet.org