Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@adamrichardlimb I don't have visions. You must know very little about what I have said and written to make this claim. The FPTP system periodically rejects and replaces unsatisfactory parties, and could and should have done so to the Tories in 2010. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thoughts on Emigration https://t.co/N5DZYUcxE8 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

From my archives (in this case nine years ago) : Are we wise to take sides in Ukraine? https://t.co/23xoezgHSa — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Not really .@realitybender. It's plain from the debt figures, the collapse of criminal justice, the decay of education, the evisceration of the family etc that the wealth, liberty and peace of centuries can't last much longer. But I can't predict the exact when and how. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/3 @adamrichardlimb. It is as if St Paul's Cathedral had been vaporised, and all the plans lost, and a group of children who knew nothing of its design, origins or purpose (or of its enemies) cried 'Don't despair! We still have our Lego. We will rebuild it!'. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 .@adamrichardlimb. It is precisely because I am 71 that I know what was lost and how it was lost, and recognise the absurdity of imagining that some barely-educated teens in think tanks could 'fight' to undo or reverse the damage. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@adamrichardlimb. Meanwhile this 'Whilst we cannot blame Hitchens for being born 71 years ago, neither can we be blamed for refusing to give up over events that occurred when most of us were adolescents' comes close to abuse. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@adamrichardlimb , Which leads to point 3, grasped in outline by Benjamin, but not by you. This is not political advice or urging, aimed at allowing the emigre to prosper and continue to seek his ends. It is bleeping *flight*. You won't care so much, in someone else's country. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@adamrichardlimb Example 2 : 'Why one would leave Britain to begin with should necessarily inform where one will leave Britain for.'. Obtuse misunderstanding. I advise people to get out because of what I think is going to happen here. Wait long enough and there'll be* no choice. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@adamrichardlimb. Example 1: You suggest I wished for 'a paternalistic Conservative party making it a political (and preferably a manifesto) commitment to leave the EU'. I hate the Tory Party and devoted years to trying to destroy it. I never imagined it could do such a thing. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Fairly clueless — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @jiver222: @DellAnnaLuca @ClarkeMicah They are not studies that show N95 work. They are studies that show N95 "might" work. And that's o… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: Well, I respect the effort made here by Carl Benjamin, and thank him for his courtesy. But I should point out that I never… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

What mountains .@topdoag? The papers you refer to *presuppose* the existence of the thing you claim they prove exists. Elementary science will tell you that cannot decide anything. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I think you mean Marples. But it went deeper and further than mere material greed — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @aClassicLiberal: @Sargon_of_Akkad I lived through the Swedish Democratic Socialist experiment in the 1968-93. +30% of engineering gradu… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Well, I respect the effort made here by Carl Benjamin, and thank him for his courtesy. But I should point out that I never set out to recover a lost past. My position was entirely realistic and based on existing circumstances. Yet nobody was interested. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@chimewhistle — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@dellannnaluca. Yes, that is what you claim@they show; but I don’t think you’ve read them , or know what they mean or say. You’re just using them as a shield. RCT is the only serious objective test. Is there one? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

How I wish that line was still open @chinewhistle . But what do you know about the 1965 closure of the Yarnton link line, which allowed huge amounts of goods to traveleast to west, avoiding London ( and Oxford)? What coukd possibly have justified this? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

You included me as a recipient, .@dellannaluca Try not to be rude. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you .@melburylord — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

A discussion on Russia and Ukraine in Buckingham next Tuesday evening https://t.co/AtmKGELOBm — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

My opponents put forth their strength in reasoned debate. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I have not done so. .@dellannaluca . Can you please supply experimental evidence , objective, testable, falsifiable, that N95 masks are effective? An RCT would be ideal. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@melburylord , can you provide referenced figures on that? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Foghorn08066088 I go where I am invited. In past years I have spoken in Edinburgh, Durham, Lancaster, Manchester, Keele, Liverpool, Nottingham, Norwich, Exeter, Bristol, Cambridge, Colchester, St Alban's, Southampton, Canterbury.I am also speaking in Buckingham next Tuesday. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

You can still book for my talk on my new book 'A Revolution Betrayed' at Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford on the evening of Thursday 9th February https://t.co/MHyGscinux — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Find out where T.S.Eliot got his best lines from: 'Last we consider the time of their coming, the season of the year. It was no summer progress. A cold coming they had of it at this time of the year, just the worst time of the year to take a journey' https://t.co/ck7DIgCyyQ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

This is Twelfth Night, which will bring to many minds Eliot's superlative poem 'Coming of the Magi'. This, from some years ago, explains where Eliot got his best lines ('A cold coming we had of it...' etc) from: https://t.co/ck7DIgCyyQ — PolitiTweet.org