Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @NewCultureForum: In an exclusive content video for our NCF members, @ClarkeMicah kindly shared a couple of his Film & TV picks. With… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

This is utterly essential reading: Armenia’s Race for Survival - Compact Magazine. https://t.co/NmnwByM6R2 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Officially, it’s a table. But the vagueness is intentional. Sone Anglicans ate*far* ore Catholic than the Pope. .@jprnyct — PolitiTweet.org

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.@essexotis. I agree. And I see in it much generosity to the private thoughts of members of the old faith who attended Anglican churches. The Puritans regarded it as little different from RC worship, and forbade its use. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@jprnyct. It’s about differing views on the meaning of the Communion service -sacrifice or commemoration. I think .@christchurchte1 thinks it is decided by the *name* of the service. I think it is decided by the intentions of clergy and congregation. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I disagree. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

And yet Cranmer wrote, and the others subscribed to and used, the beautifully ambiguous Prayer Book of 1552 (and that of 1549, since you mention the great Thomas). 1552 is more or less still in use. Mary did not burn them to death for their liturgy. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@christchurchtel1 As Elizabeth I remarked, when faced with dogmatists: ‘Twas God the word that spake it. He took the bread and brake it; and what the word doth make it, that I believe and take it’ . She refused to make windows into men’s souls. So should you. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@christchurchte1. Have you read the words of administration in the 1662 version of the Lord’s Supper? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

And I don’t @christchurchte1 But I don’t think you sound like one. Anglicans don’t look for points of difference, or get worked up about them, in my experience. They like old things. Some carols sung in the C of E are fairly RC, being very old. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Or Holy Communion @christchurchte1 . But what of it? The C of E inherited many things from Rome, in its relaxed way. ‘Mass’, probably a corruption of Latin, is an old English word for a service Rome and Canterbury have in common, but which has different significance for each. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@christchurchte1 I love the struggles of non-Anglicans with the Elizabethan confusions and complexities of the C of E. Even, so it is called ‘Midnight Mass’and there is nothing especially Roman about the term ‘Mass’ . There are clergy available to fill in for absent parsons. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Reduces the value of the land .@janinethechef1 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @Lumawkin: @LozzaFox ‘ the rare and disingenuous use of ..rare.. outliers’ - yes, very good point. Ppl shd read @ClarkeMicah on this sub… — PolitiTweet.org

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.@janinethechef1. I criticised it at the time and encountered quite a lot of hostility. It was very odd. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Venetia92375470 I cannot understand why it should take so long. It is so hard on congregations. And it’s not as if , when you eventually get a new parson, that the chosen one is always particularly suited to the place. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@alexburcher. I’m open to all proven good ideas. But the fantasy that the NHS is the envy of the world, promoted by that ridiculous Olympics Opening Ceremony, is simply absurd. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@pedeardinepeter. C of E is astonishingly bad at replacing parsons when they move on or retire, even though most of these events are predictable.Too busy issuing statements about the planet,or denouncing dead bishops for crimes they didn’t commit.The interregnums do much damage. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@susanna919sulo Yet at general elections they still vote, overwhelmingly, with their tribes. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@longSiberia. Can you put a date to that, or identify the Secretary of State and legislation? I should look d like to look it up. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

That doesn’t follow @leftwingtorying. Plenty transferred from Sec Mods to grammars at 13. In Scotland secondary school begins at 12. — PolitiTweet.org

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@skinspecialist — PolitiTweet.org

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.@skinsuecialist. The answer seems to me to be to copy France’s highly successful system, more efficient and user-friendly than ours. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@chimewhistle . It’s to do with Rights of Way. Unless you close a path once or twice a year, it becomes, in time, a Right of Way which cannot he altered. But I think the choice of day is pretty open. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Quite. And the destruction of the Polytechnics was a great loss.. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@leftwingtorying — PolitiTweet.org

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.@oxuniparks — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Perhaps you should not be *quite* so diligent to close the cycle path at midnight on the 24th, so cunningly preventing anyone returning from midnight services in town from getting home to Marston or Headington. You’re not always that punctual when you reopen — PolitiTweet.org

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.@leftwingtoryinyg — PolitiTweet.org