Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@yjshoebridge You say Pat Cullen 'roasts' me in this exchange. Did you actually watch it? I think not. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

At 1 hr 19 mins into this https://t.co/TFomp2GSOj recording of BBC Radio 4's Today programme,Julian Assange's wife Stella discusses the terrible effect on children of having to visit a parent in prison.Many thanks to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe,who I have no doubt made this happen. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@policy_uk I can be reached through The Mail on Sunday in London — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @russellfclinton: @Lynn06783085 @ClarkeMicah @PhilJohnGoode1 @friel_raymond The same for my grammar. My class had the children of men wh… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@policy_uk There would *be*pressure, but it would not outrageously favour those able to pay for tuition and prep schools, as it does now. And selection by wealth for 'good' comprehensives would cease. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @Lynn06783085: @PhilJohnGoode1 @ClarkeMicah @friel_raymond None of that existed when there were plenty of grammars. My grammar was a mix… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

For perhaps the two millionth time, .@apwood1960, this affects the tiny rump of surviving grammar schools (in reality super-selective comps) mostly in well-off areas. It would not happen in a national academically selective system. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@the_cynical1 . You are mistaken.Existing law prohibits e-scooters from being ridden on public highways, footpaths or elsewhere and has done for many years. It is only thanks to Grant Shapps that exceptions have been made to this law for rental scooters in certain areas. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @Lynn06783085: @ClarkeMicah @friel_raymond Coming from a working class family who went to a grammar school, purely on academic ability,… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I don’t advocate new laws . @Nicksimmons86. I oppose their legalisation, itself a new law. I’ve only been saying this for more than a year, so why should I expect you to have noticed? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, you don’t do you, @nicksimons86? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@nicksimmons86, as we have no visible police force in the UK, it really doesn't matter much what the regulations say. People buy them and do what they like. With a few illegal but easy tweaks, these ideal mugger-carriers can do 40 mph. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Nobody reads manifestoes. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @SueJen67: @ClarkeMicah No; it's not just you. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @snufbox: @ClarkeMicah My parents bought a house just to get me + my brother into a good state school. Catchment area was a prosperous H… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Ruined what .@nicksimmons86? until now the general view in law-governed countries was that you needed to pass a test, become insured and obtain a licence to drive a motor vehicle. Now powerful motorcylces, dressed up as toys, can be ridden by almost anyone, anywhere. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Here again, .@raymond_friel astounds. He has bene teaching in RC schools, says they can be good, but appears to think they are non-selective. My point is that all good schools are *selective* - not (alas) that they are acaemically selective. If only. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 It is precisely because they're *not* academically selective,but that they *are* selective, that I mention it. Abolition of academic selection led to far more unfair forms of selection. How I long for a reviewer who grasps what it is that I am on about. .@friel_raymond — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 I remain *astonished* by this response from @friel_raymond, who reviewed my grammar school book for @The_Tablet, to my point that the RC schools he has taught in and run are themselves selective. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

These are very interesting figures — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Nobody is compelled to take part .@snookerjudge , and the programme, and ts nature, are well-known and easily examined. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I doubt it .@djcatdad16. When I saw the totals I was more interested in how bad Durham must have been to let that happen. Most UC questions these days are not general knowledge, but PC-influenced particular knowledge. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes, very likely. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I know .@ATTay38411784 I thought it spoke for itself. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Anna18073760. I have totally given up the regular programme. But have a particular fascination in the University of York alumni teams, many of whom seem not to have been undergraduates there. I didn’t watch the whole thing, just took some samples. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The Twitter Files, leaks and the FBI: key revelations so far https://t.co/HKKUvqzkYQ via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Good question .@alpheusriparius — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Also many teams are now coached, carefully revising on UC obsessions such as Pacific Archipelagoes,18th century German woman mathematicians, the Periodic Table, African flags , Albanian national parks and Artemisia Gentileschi. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@1secretceo The Internet offers undifferentiated information. Without deeper knowledge, the reader cannot judge its importance or significance , or even be sure it is accurate — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@djcatdad16 .@janinethechef1. As far as I could make out, it was rare for any of these notable alumni to have graduated earlier than the late 1980s, so they’re mostly products of the comprehensive era, just as now. — PolitiTweet.org