Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Is it just me? Sampled opening couple of minutes of Christmas University Challenge. Had heard of none of those representing my own university, who were baffled when asked to identify obvious quotations from Thomas Hobbes and George Orwell. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ChimeWhistle: @ClarkeMicah Rail staff tell me that scooters are a menace and users often indulge in antisocial behaviour. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@culturalcapita5 e-scooters do not replace car journeys. Nobody would swap a car for one of these exposed death-traps. They replace walking and cycling, reducing yet further the amount of exercise taken by the young, while increasing danger on the roads and pavements for all. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

E-scooters banned from more rail lines https://t.co/PAsKi0ysgC — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Please do @philippullman. I was told this morning that it was just a temporary measure that had been used to raise staff morale. Even so it was alarming to experience it *at all* in such a temple of peaceful thought. Still unclear what Waterstone's plan to do with Blackwell's. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ChimeWhistle: @ClarkeMicah @SeeYaDarling Absolutely. Wheel on steel is the way ahead. Trams are aspirational – one only has to see how… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @toptraindriver: @ChimeWhistle @ClarkeMicah @jonnyanna70 I’ve visited a few times and it’s clear to me Oxford is a logical place for tra… — PolitiTweet.org

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I don’t — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I don’t. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Which is quite typical of our society built and designed around the car — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, trains can carry huge numbers of long-distance travellers, and frequent trams can replace dozens of cars every few minutes.@seeyadarling — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

These signs were still posted in Blackwell’s Oxford bookshop in the early 1960s when I first saw it. I don’t know when they dated from. But by 1969 there were tactful notices all over the shop warning against shoplifting, a sad change. https://t.co/nqepJU1AG5 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@seeyadarling — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@seeyadraling. Why on earth would you need that? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The parking is awful .@jonnyanna70 because the public transport is awful and people come by car, when they shouldn't have to. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ELTAuthor: @PhilipPullman @ClarkeMicah Apparently it only plays when Mr Hitchens goes in the shop - to boost staff morale, as he says. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@noomie525257 I am much of your opinion. Mind you, I do not think the Tory Party the only party which has hoped to use housing to increase its vote. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@jonnyanna70 Better to provide good, fast cheap public transport, preferably electric trams, to hospitals. Parking only stimulates demand for more parking, which cannot be met, even by eating all the green space in the area. — PolitiTweet.org

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You are quite right .@daviroo. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@the_cynical1 Indeed, yeah. We should praise and admire those who concrete over the country and despoil the woods and hills, as they are only overcoming the lack of affordable alternatives. Yeah. One affordable alternative would have been not to expand the universities. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @russellfclinton: @ClarkeMicah @the_cynical1 Student residential accommodation has been a massive growth area. Turning tertiary educatio… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@1petittruc Oxford has never been so full of cranes and bulldozers, more even than in the disastrous 1960s. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The woman pictures reading just the left of the centre of the picture is thought to be Baudelaire's biographer Enid Starkie, once described as "a brilliant Rimbaud scholar who pub-crawls about Oxford in bright red slacks and beret while smoking cigars." — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Not so .@mat1dog. The destruction of council estates still pushes many towards buying who would previously have rented. The 'property-owning democracy' is a fantasy. In Germany renting is considered perfectly normal by many prosperous people. — PolitiTweet.org

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3/3 @the_cynical1 . The development I mentioned here replaces an existing 'student village', which was by comparison low rise, and which left many mature tree standing which will now be, or have been, lost. — PolitiTweet.org

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2/3 .@the_cynical1 Another major reason arises from the large profits to be made out of closely-packed housing for students, compelled to borrow the money to pay for dubious courses and barracks. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@the_cynical1 There are many reasons for the high price of homes. One is the huge injection of tax money into the housing market by M.Thatcher, when she sold council houses. Another is mass divorce. Another is mass immigration. Another is the flight of jobs to the SE. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@kennyedw The thing about the complacent, or those who would ruin the country for generations to come, for money - they can only oppose those who disagree with them by accusing them of low motives. I wonder why that is. Perhaps Dr Freud of Vienna has a suggestion? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

This 1950 painting(containing portraits of many notable dons of the time)commemorates Blackwell’s bookshop as it then was.This morning I was amazed to walk in and hear piped music playing. Staff assured me it would soon stop and was to boost their morale. But is it gone for good? https://t.co/twa0Ks6H8e — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Many people(me included) opposed this development of expanded student barracks on a hillside east of Oxford. Too many mature trees lost, we said. Too high, we said. Not to worry, they said. Well, this is it, so far. https://t.co/upGKwVOKis — PolitiTweet.org