Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ehrgeiztv. You cannot save what is already lost. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ChrisMoorethe There is nothing ‘posh’ about either good manners or the educated use of language. Only a crashing snob would think or believe that there was. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No danger of any such invitation, Sardine old chap. But what makes you think your crude crowd-pleasing helps to save a country(now alas no longer in existence) based upon restraint? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

That’s not the choice, Sardine, old bean. The coarse crudity of people such as you is one of the reasons Britain long ago sank beneath those waves. The idea that you are its defender is a stretch. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@marinamedvin — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I assume nothing , Mr Benjamin. Stop pretending that I am expressing some sort of weird class prejudice, which I am not. I *know* what you said to a certain woman politician. So do you. No wonder you now seek to change the subject. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@marinamedbin Be aware that Mr Sardine of Alcan is pretending that this is is about class snobbery. That is tripe. The coarseness to which I refer was a remark made by him to a British woman politician, which I will not repeat, but which is findable by those interested. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Mr Benjamin, there are many reasons why the enemies of conservative, Christian and patriotic ways of life *have* won. I've written books about it. I thought it was beyond dispute that they *had* won long ago. I am amazed that you think that you are some sort of Hereward the Wake. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

For all I know, Mr Benjamin, you come from ancient Norman nobility, whereas my ancestors were West Country farm labourers. My reference to your coarseness, as you well know, refers to your use of language in public discourse. Your admirers should look it up. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Once again, .@majesticprimate I was asked what I advised the young to do. I replied honestly. This is not a political programme. No doubt those who follow the advice will decide where they wish to go. If they need to be told, they are unlikely to make a go of it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I don’t care how you feel about it, Mr Benjamin. Isn’t this a bit grandiose for one so coarse? ‘Patrimony’, forsooth. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@spencerjjoseph. There is no ‘moderate’ persona. Sir Keir is commendably honest about what he is. But the usual idiots who dominate comment and opinion have cast him in that role. The same role will fail to see or understand the radicalism in his actions,as they did with Blair. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Ad hominem exemplified, .@anglofyrd848 .My approaching death, like everyone else’s, is one of the certainties of life. I can see no point in struggling with it, nor do I see why it would affect my opinion on this matter. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

To get my attention, .@markmarksson , and perhaps the attention of others. You must go now. Goodbye. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@poliplatypus. Communism *changed* after the failure of the USSR. China, for example, is still governed by a very dogmatic Communist Party. Yet it permits capitalist accumulation. So you are wrong. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, .@dianecalculator. Had you read the article you would see that Sir Keir speicfically states that he does *not* repudiate his past views. That is why I put that bit in. But it doesn't work unless you *read* it, does it? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@markmarksson. You have no checkable identity. All your past opinions and actions (according to you) are unimpeachable and highly convenient to whatever position you happen to be taking. If it's too good to be true, then it's too good to be true. You don't exist. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Never say never — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I did not skim over anything .@paulybee1234 Mr Farage was supposed to be interviewing me but couldn't wait to change the subj when it got hard for him, and to end the exchange when it clearly wasn't going his way. I doubt we share any significant opinions. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

This sounds a bit teenage,even Student Tory, .@markmarksson Some of our forebears made the country great. Quite a few of our more recent forebears have made it a good deal less great. Far from being a counsel of despair, the advice to emigrate is a positive and practical plan. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, Keir Starmer is not a 'moderate' . Some checked, unquestionable facts about the Pabloite Labour leader: https://t.co/41hk6RS19M via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Then, .@jgillray, you know very little about Sir Keir Starmer. I, on the other hand, have looked him up. Please see https://t.co/WTgop3RQtX — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, perhaps not, .@markmarksson I am increasingly of the opinion that you did not exist then, or in 1987, and , you don't exist now either. It's been real (for me at least, if not for you) but I'm not wrestling with an electronic spectre any more. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @Leskanic30: @ClarkeMicah I’ve followed you for a while but never commented on anything. It seems to me that you’re almost constantly “t… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

And .@markmarksson, you are sermonising . You are condemning me for despairing over the future of Britsh politics ( as if you had some rescue plan, which of course you do not) . That's not disagreement. That's moralising — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I do not believe you .@markmarksson. . I suspect you have persuaded yourself of this in the years since, just as so many have persuaded themselves they were against the Iraq war. If you were so conscious of the position in *1987*, what possible cause have you for optimism now? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Then summarise your approach, please .@thelivingvote — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@markmarksson Who says temporal despair is always a bad thing? Only a complacent islander, protected for centuries by deep salt water, could say such a thing. It is ridiculous and self-harming to maintain temporal and material hope when there is no reason at all to do so. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@hg54, from where I was standing, it looked like about 90% of the population. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@jprnyct Astonishing. The combination of Cliff Michelmore and the young Bob Dylan stirs two wholly different wells of memory and nostalgia. — PolitiTweet.org