Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Are you feeling all right , @jprnyct? The picture you display is of the 1964 modernistic rebuild of New Street, not of the original Victorian station. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@_mash_6_6 Why do you resort to personal abuse (usually a sign of someone who is unsure of his position)? What precisely are the 'holes' in the Danmask Study? Do they in any way strengthen the case for face coverings? What do you think the article says? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I’ve never considered the question — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @Turner1966James: @ClarkeMicah @martywin https://t.co/Q0T4O9u8tj — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@isaacclay170493. Thanks. This sometimes happens but -as you see - not always. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @toadmeister: The Twitter debate between Peter Hitchens and Carl Benjamin, AKA Sargon, is probably the most epic of the year to date. Re… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@rogercookie. Many of these sad people are *worshippers* of my late brother, who to them is a semi-divine being. The existence of a close living relative, who is not a worshipper and who regards their deity as human, is sacrilege to them. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @tindle Then note especially the multiple U-turns by public health officials (not based on medical evidence) and the reference to Isabel Oakeshott, who co-authored former Health Secretary Matt Hancock's Covid memoir. Can help further, if necessary. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@tindle. Please read the article https://t.co/HxlR2lwQNN . Then... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

To some predicaments, perhaps . From 'Jeeves Takes Charge' :'It is the Worcester Sauce that gives it its colour. The raw egg makes it nutritious. The red pepper gives it its bite. Gentlemen have told me they have found it extremely invigorating after a late evening.' — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@davidharpham77., Have you lived all your life in my late brother's shadow? Rather you than me, but then, I knew him and you didn't. Did you enjoy the very intellectual Iraq War bit, and the WMD? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@tindle. You could read the article. But if you seek to govern by fear, the power is manifested in obedience and conformity of those you rule. Getting millions of people to do an irrational act, incidentally removing their individuality is a way of doing that. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

[email protected]'d recently read a discussion of the ages at which several prominent ancient Greek thinkers had become slaves. I can't find it now. But I was very struck by it. I can't stand it when a country with no ships sings 'Britons never shall be slaves'. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I have tried that .@ploppythe2nd. The tedious response is 'But Where?!! Where?!!! Where should I go?. You must say!' (truth is, if a person needs to ask where to go, he'll never get there anyway. Moving abroad's no light thing and takes nerve and hard work) — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@martywin. That's because they all remember what we have forgotten or never knew, that the Royal Navy bombarded Copenhagen in 1807. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @JohnMellis: @ClarkeMicah At 71 , Mr Hitchens is no longer young enough to know everything . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Silly billy .@amenablec. I was a Trotskyist, utterly contemptuous of and hostile to the Moscow Soviet regime. My sympathies are with my own country, which I think is damaged by limping pathetically behind the USA into a futile and dangerous European war. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@simonambrose. How do you think nations become and remain great powers? The intelligent diplomatist *accepts* the existence and interests of other countries. The USA's modern appetite for aggression has gravely weakened it at home and abroad. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@toryrebuttal. For not above the 500th time. It....doesn't....matter. You would be fleeing *from*, not going *to*.What even makes you think you'll have a choice? I'm by no means sure that ex-British emigres are going to be all that welcome in years to come. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you .@jperryuk . I do indeed like Copenhagen, especially the waterfront and the Round Tower ( and the train to Elsinore). — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@psychedral. Quite right. Yet again,I advise emigration to flee *from*, not to go *to*. I do not think people have even yet grasped the swiftness and steepness of this country's economic, political, educational , moral and cultural decline,or wondered where and how it might end. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

But there was no fight. The transfer of power happened peacefully long before they were born. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I can see no good option at the next election — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Well, that is a very different task, coming closer to Dreher's 'Benedict Option' . But it's more a matter of preserving ancient strains than of sowing new seeds. The other thing is that electronics give the enemy the ability to impose his will far more thoroughly. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Possibly , .@northsnoopy. I seldom notice these teenage jibes. I had my own Squirrel Nutkin phase, long ago, and remain amazed by how seriously some of my elders took the rubbish that I extruded in those days. Ex-Revolutionaries are the best conservatives. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

But, as you have conceded, England and Britain were not designed or built, but grew like a forest. Traditions and customs, like great trees, take centuries to reach maturity - and can be destroyed in a few minutes, as we see. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@adamrichrdlimb. Truth is, I rather obviously know more about being 71 than you do, and probably rather more about being 17 (or whatever you are) as well. The libertine stuff came out of the 18th century. I was not surprised by it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 What is it that I cannot see, .@adamrichardlimb? I have paid a lot of attention (for example) to Prof Peterson's writings and disciples. I see no rescue from that direction. When you become 71 yourself, take out this tweet and have a look at it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

This is just sentimental froth, .@fuddz2. When ruin or destruction threaten, optimists are a danger to all around them, refusing to prepare for the inevitable worst. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Round objects .@adamrichardlimb. Political advice is intended to have general political outcomes. I advise people to get out of this failing state while there is still time. By doing so they will have no effect here, and very little on the place where they go. — PolitiTweet.org