Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'Small children want and need to know that seven nines are 63, but couldn’t care less why this is so, and are most unlikely ever to require such knowledge.' https://t.co/myIcj24b8V via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'Then along came the progressives. Having already begun to wreck the teaching of reading and history, they turned their attention in the 1960s to destroying maths teaching as well.' https://t.co/myIcj24b8V via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Laurie Lee, in Cider With Rosie, recalled how ‘unhearing, unquestioning, we rocked to our chanting, hammering the gold nails home’ in his Gloucestershire village school just after the First World War. https://t.co/myIcj24b8V via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

My early teachers made me chant my times tables, and my weights and measures. Privileged private schools and village primaries alike used the same unfailing technique. https://t.co/myIcj24b8V via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: PETER HITCHENS: Teaching us maths until we're 80 won't solve the problems of our schools. You have to teach them properly… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

PETER HITCHENS: Teaching us maths until we're 80 won't solve the problems of our schools. You have to teach them properly : https://t.co/myIcj24b8V via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@nickhillman Fascinated by your post here https://t.co/JxMm3YXm1h. I have long suspected the reluctance you mention but never before had such serious evidence. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No .@paleo1923 Once patriotic conservatives had legitimised the Blairite takeover of the Tory Party in 2010, that was that. The opportunity to refuse to do so was open and easily taken, but will not come again. https://t.co/aXXfE5pRhR — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@arya_bauergei . you have misunderstood the whole point. Britain is declining so rapidly that it will soon be wise to be elsewhere, if you’re young enough to go. it is not a question of improving or maintaining your conditions. For the 500th time.. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @MikeOfTheSouthW: @Sargon_of_Akkad @ClarkeMicah Carl, why you waste your time with Peter ? In recent times, he’s become utterly defeati… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

then you should answer my questions properly and not call me rude names .@dellannaluca — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

That @dellannaluca, is not what I asked for. I asked for a specific study, whether it was an RCT, and your explanation of why it persuaded you. No link, no explanation and , as .@mrquantity pointed out, not relevant to the issue. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@simmo1024 I recall a 1966 journey from Glasgow to Oxford when I had to walk from New Street to Snow Hill(which was soon afterwards shut for 20 stupid years. In 1972 I saw and strolled round the superb old St Enoch Station in Glasgow, just before it was flattened. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@chubbychaserlee. I think it is *absolute* evidence of bigotry. It was not the subject, nor even my conclusions on it, but my *name* which caused them to reject the suggestion. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I think I have asked you ten times .@dellannaluca which *specific* study you rely on for your confidence in the efficacy of N-95 masks. I've also requested you to explain why, and to say if it is an RCT. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you, @steveinnewyork. It may seem like nit-picking, but it's a key difference between attitudes to life and learning. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@simmo1024 For much of the 1970s, I had to pass through New Street every few weekends. It never failed to make my heart sink. I swear I once saw a vending machine marked with the word 'paperbacks'. You fed your coins in, and turned the knob to find out what book you'd got. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

And in another parallel universe, your tweet is funny, .@thetombrook. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

By heart, .@steveinnewyork , you learned them by heart, not 'by rote' - a pejorative, hostile expression deployed by progressives. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Observe in this sequence of tweets how .@dellannaluca answers a trivial question with a trivial jibe, but ignores the more substantive question from me. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I am regularly accused of 'paranoia' and 'conspiracy theories' when I say my books are not reviewed because of prejudice against me. Well, what do those who dismiss my fears have to say about this? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: Fascinating proof of prejudice against my books, from the website of the Higher Education Policy institute: https://t.co/2… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

preview my Mail on Sunday column, to be published tomorrow. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: Unless we fix schools you could stay until the age of 80 and still not be able to count https://t.co/AEi1XKvJZ1 via @mailp… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Unless we fix schools you could stay until the age of 80 and still not be able to count https://t.co/AEi1XKvJZ1 via @mailplus — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Fascinating proof of prejudice against my books, from the website of the Higher Education Policy institute: https://t.co/2aDR6Ajisa https://t.co/I9g9O8wfw5 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

4/2 Note that the item (No.3 here https://t.co/JxMm3YXm1h) explains that the author was seeking reviewers who would be *hostile* to my book. They wouldn't even do that. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/2 . I think this https://t.co/JxMm3YXm1h may help to explain the absence of reviews of my book 'A Revolution Betrayed' from much of the unpopular press. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 . Here's the answer 'HEPI will be running a positive review of this book in the next few days and, while I had hoped to balance it out with an alternative view given Hitchens’s book should prompt a debate...'. https://t.co/JxMm3YXTQP — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 What book do you think this is?'the handful of academics and educational commentators that I have asked to review the book have all turned me down flat – I could almost see the steam coming out of their ears when I mentioned the author’s name.'.... — PolitiTweet.org