Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

135,000 have now watched @aaronbastani interview me on life, the universe, Trotskyism and tea. You can join them here https://t.co/XLZ6PAMP1p — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@allectus99 No doubt , but .@shaun_hutchings was giving his views on *what* an omniscient God knows. Not on *whether* He is omniscient. So try again. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Interesting. So, @aylmer51, what in your view justifies overthrowing a sovereign country's legitimate government, because you don't like it, by backing a lawless violent putsch against it? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Lest we forget. Poroshhenko supprters, Banderites (Note red and black flags) etc marched against Zelensky's attempts to negotiate peace (as he had promised to do in his election campaign) https://t.co/LufSr2T22T — PolitiTweet.org

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Aylmer51. Why do you ask for justification? I can see nobody here claiming the invasion was justified. Are you using your own brain, or is someone else using it? The UN https://t.co/lykUkLif9N produced a report on the matter. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: .@diertatswift. We are not talking about justification. We are talking about explanation, and predictable consequences. No… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@nowcontactearth. Bilge. Whoever delivers a baby knows nothing of the baby's future life and is morally bound to do so. He who overthrows the legitimate govt of a sovereign country,to shift its international alignment, knows he's playing with fire & is not morally bound to do so — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

David Kynaston reviews my grammar school book for The Spectator. He has a bee in his bonnet, alas. https://t.co/WZ6kJ0Uxsi via @spectator — PolitiTweet.org

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.@consul001 I had pretty much answered that, I think. I told @aaronBastani, and have many times said, that I cannot support the death penalty with the British justce system and media in their current state. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you @johnchaytor. It is years since I have got what I consider to be the double, The Spectator *and* the New Statesman. But still nothing from The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph or Sunday Telegraph, Literary Review or LRB. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@alanjpearson. Zelensky was elected on a promise to obtain peace. He was blocked from doing so, by the actions of his own electorally-crushed predecessor Poroshenko, of ultra-nationalists and elements inside Ukraine's armed forces, who openly snubbed him. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@alanjpearson. What am I avoiding? I have unequivocally condemned the Russian invasion since the day it took place. It's easy to find out and I would have done so again, as I now do, if asked. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@alanjpearson dmeonstarted here that he knows *nothing* about Ukraine. When I politely set him right he did not offer any regret or even acknowledgement. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@alanjpearson. I think this is the second time I have made this point and if you don't respond properly, you will have to say goodbye. Can you point to *anyone* in this discussion who has said that the atrocites committed by Russia *are* justified? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes, @ladygreenkirtle gorse is lovely. As is bracken. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@ayler51. American military aid to Ukraine began in 1991. Why on earth would that have been? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@pieops. You seem to have grown up with the Prince Harry view of truth. If an artist wants to paint an imaginary seaside town, he can paint what he likes. If he says it is Scarborough, it must portray Scarborough - especially if he is advertsying that town to paying visitors. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @shaunmwing: @SrinjanSaha @ClarkeMicah "In my experience, Christianity tends to benefit from the hostile interest of people such as Phil… — PolitiTweet.org

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Teach history? Where would he do that? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@pieops. I have often been to Scarborough on summer days. They never looked remotely like the poster which began this discussion, in which the colours are absurdly Mediterranean. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, @tombobc, what kicked it off was the western-backed violent overthrow of Ukraine's legitimate government in February 2014, about which you and millions of others are tragically ignorant. Educate yourself. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SrinjanSaha: A moving yet at times frightening piece by @ClarkeMicah. A potential warning for what may lie ahead if we continue to choo… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@diertatswift. We are not talking about justification. We are talking about explanation, and predictable consequences. No doubt, if Russia was run by nuns, overthrowing the Ukrainian government and installing a pro-NATO regime would have led to no consequences at all. But... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ladygreenkirtle. I never said it was always grey. But the colours are cooler, more subtle and less sweet. 'The buttercups, the little children's dower —Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!', as Browning put it. — PolitiTweet.org

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2/2 .@Nowcontactearth. The argument is in fact whether there is a moral difference between the two. But there is little material difference. The death and detsruction caused by 2014 is greater than that caused by the invasion. Because the invasion was one of its consequences. — PolitiTweet.org

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1/2 .@nowcontactearth. Why not? If a foreign power reached into this country and used violent mobs to overthrow the elected government, sparking civil war( as it did and would), you might grasp the disgusting nature of this action. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@lachlanamaclean I often stop talking about God, and then find that otehrs wish to restart the conversation. He is an imprtant subject and fascinates people, especially unbelievers, who find it hard to resist yet another peep behind the fearful curtain of belief. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I should have dated the signature '1984' — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@pieops. You mean that you disagree with me. Representational art should represent , at the very least, the essence of what it portrays. Non-representational art has another function. Also, a poster designed to attract travellers to a destination should be broadly truthful. — PolitiTweet.org