Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

So do I @tonyvanminn, as cycling is probably one of the best ways of staying healthy over a long period. You may be thinking of motorcyclists who get no exercise and travel *much* faster on unprotected vehicles. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@NB49820460 People think bike helmets are like motorcycle helmets.They should take a look at one. Motorbike helmets are far too heavy for cyclists to use. No helmet will protect a cyclist from being hit from behind at speed by a drug driver, or crushed by a turning lorry. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@NB49820460 1/2 It's is an assertion to say that cyclists who don't wear styrofoam bowls on their heads put themselves at risk. Drivers behave more aggressively towards bowl-wearing riders. The protective power of such a thing,while riding upright at 10 MPH, is, er, exaggerated. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@isaacckay170493 What is the connection between those statements? Cyclists face many dangers , but there is scant objective evidence that a styrofoam bowl protects commuter riders against them, whereas we do know that drivers are more aggressive to bowl wearers. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@bobhross. Perhaps. But that was not what you described. If you paid more attention to what religious believers actually think, you’d be better at attacking them. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Do you think so,.@jprnyct? It sounds a bit rigid. I think cars should overtake cyclists when it is safe to do so within the speed limit, but not because they just feel like it and regard cyclists as a nuisance, and as second-class road users who ‘don’t pay “road tax”’. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, but Leibniz did, and I think it has some force. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@mozzman . A frequent dilemma for cyclists. A ton of steel is signalling one way and positioned to go in the opposite direction. Note that I gave the van a very wide berth, not least in case the driver suddenly took it into his head to fling his door open. They do this. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Or perhaps vans shouldn’t bully other road users by driving too close to the kerb or right out on the edge. I suspect you have never ridden a pushbike on London traffic. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@bobhross. Who thinks that? Please give references, quotes etc. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@filbo24. It’s an interesting junction (I’ve used it at least five times a week for about 20 years, usually turning right) . At junctions it’s generally safer for cyclists to be on the right of motor vehicles. There was plenty of room. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@notpianokey. Thanks. I remain amazed that it was hardly noticed at all when it came out. Perhaps not as good as the brilliant ‘Ida’ but close ( and that too has never had the audience it deserves). — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@thejrtemyvine Styrofoam bowls are not obligatory . Cyclists may pass motor vehicles on the right. This person seems to believe( like too many drivers) that cyclists are second-class road users. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Styrofoam bowls worn on the head are rightly optional. The van was turning left and I was turning right. As usual with motor vehicles, I assumed that the van driver might at any time fling his door open in front of me without looking, and maintained distance as a precaution. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

On the contrary , .@topdoag, criminal penalties for drug possession, properly enforced, would have deterred many from wrecking their lives with drugs. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@themsrcofcraig The alternative to criminal gangs is not nothing, but legal global conglomerates like Big Tobacco, immensely more powerful and damaging. Of course criminals distribute illegal goods. But they would have nothing to do, if other criminals did not buy them. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@mrwill909 . What ‘prohibition’ ? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Not sure about John the Baptist I tend to think of his besrd as waist-length, though it’s a while since we met. But. it took me several seconds to realise that @theJeremyVine was concealed beneath all that clobber you wear just to ride a bike. .... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No .@julieson2020. I don't admire individuals,, they always have feet of clay. I sometimes admire *actions*. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'Facing a liquidity crisis,I tried to sell a pair of wonky binoculars to a junk shop.The Irish proprietor handed them back to me saying, “We don’t take things as is broke.” It was a key moment.There was nothing else for it. I was going to have to get a job.https://t.co/2egS8EDnxd — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

My most vivid memory of a bar is of walking into a large pub in Dundee, with a woman at my side. It was a Sunday lunchtime, in the summer of 1973. There were perhaps a hundred men in the room. Every single one of them turned silently to stare at us. https://t.co/2egS8EDnxd — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

My latest appearance on Mike Graham's programme - we discuss the hopeless hunt for the Drug Cartels' Mr Big . https://t.co/RufXMMras4 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Down the Rat Hole - the sad and futile search for the perfect bar or pub https://t.co/MlGYvpLlfS — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Down the Rat Hole - the futile search for a good pub or bar , from Oxford's seedy old Cowley Road to the grimmer quarters of Soviet Moscow. My latest column for 'The Lamp' https://t.co/2egS8EDnxd — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Just think, if only .@tweeterreynolds had *not* consumed marijuana 'almost every day of my life for over 40 years', how much *more* material and other success he would have had. What a loss this has probably been to our nation. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @Lumawkin: @TweeterReynolds @ClarkeMicah @YouTube @Iromg Ah, thank you. You are fortunate, but many are not so lucky. Two members of my… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, that is not what I said at all, . @su57_Facts. Do try to actually listen before attacking. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@AshldjAshley I seem to recall reading that people who conducted debate by abuse and insult were generally bereft of an argument. I have found this true over time. Do better, or please go away. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

My latest appearance on Mike Graham's programme - we discuss the futile search for the Drug Cartels' Mr Big . https://t.co/RufXMMras4 — PolitiTweet.org