Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@keftwingtoryin , If you were ‘put in top sets’ , what makes you think you would have failed to get into a grammar? In any case, people got into good universities - when that was really hard to do - from Secondary Mods. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Another reason to ditch the two corpse parties @jeanremyduboc. But people vote loyally for these, their enemies, at election after election — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Indeed not .@jeanremyduboc. But nor have Labour, who for decades have denounced any fundamental change, quite falsely, as a move towards the failed American health system. We should in fact copy the French. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @PoliPlatypus: @justjanepix @ClarkeMicah How on earth do you look at liz truss' 40 odd days in office and conclude that her departure wa… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I don’t think so .@JustJanepix. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@drhenrymarsh — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Look, @ drhenrymarsh, I loathe the Tory Party more than I can say or you can imagine. But can you point me to anyone in it, of any powers or influence, who has expressed the opinions you attribute to them here. The NHS fails because it was designed for another age. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@friel_raymond You are of course aware that the Roman Catholic schools you have been teaching in, or running, all this time are by definition selective? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @FujGeebee: @ClarkeMicah Remarkable how our language has been diminished to the extent that "conclusive" now means "none at all" — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@johndryden85 It is a baseless fallacy that advancing the academically adept can only be done at the *expense* of others. The ceaseless smearing of Secondary Mods is one of the main targets of my book. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@adamjcolvin . It is most kind of you to say so. The book was very hard to write, and I am especially pleased to find that it has been of any use to anyone. Happy Christmas. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@livingxmastrees. Possible. But the universal conclusion,based on nothing and contradicted by logic, that Russia blew up its own very expensive asset, was a kind of collective delusion- notably undermined by Radek Sikorski’s (swiftly deleted) tweet thanking the USA. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@johndryden85 , .@friel_raymond , nothing wrong with concern about those not selected for academic schools. But vast Comps are quite useless to those better-suited to vocational education. Secondary Mods served them better. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Tatum. Of course it does. There are many, many more university places including at ‘top’ universities, exam inflation is huge, and university entrance is far easier than it was 50 years ago. Goodness. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@friek_raymond . What I actually say is that all good schools are selective. Many of them use covert and unacknowledged methods of selection. You and I would also probably differ about what a good school is. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@friel_raymond — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Understatement of the week. https://t.co/vMNqRC3awD — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ friel_raymond. If you read it carefully,why did you completely ignore a significant caveat (placed there by me in anticipation of someone like you)which nullifies your principal criticism?And why did you ignore the chapter on secondary mods,in which you have a direct interest? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @oiseaufrancaise: @sunlit_upland @WendyJWright @ClarkeMicah @GarethLee Well here’s my anecdote. My Dad also came from a poor family bac… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

That *is* interesting . Can anyone explain? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: .@livingxmastrees. As it’s almost Christmas, I’ve decided to take that as the compliment it possibly isn’t. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @WendyJWright: @ClarkeMicah @GarethLee My husband was from a poor South Wales family. Grammar school was the making of him and his frien… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

But .@stevematt73, we disagree about grammar schools. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@livingxmastrees. As it’s almost Christmas, I’ve decided to take that as the compliment it possibly isn’t. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@livingxmastrees Perhaps they just *seem* long. ‘The Rage Against God’ is pretty short. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Good heavens ,.@kevfoyo, how could you suggest that reviewers ever review books without actually reading them? This is rank heresy etc. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@raymond_friel 3/2 . I spent a large chunk of the book countering the lazy slandering of secondary moderns, a chapter which appears to have made no impact on you *at all*, oddly, given your experience. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @friel_raymond. The book is an account of past events, in which I conclude with regret that this country will not now restore good schools. So why would I develop a vision? Academic selection *was* a national system, as you well know. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@friel_raymond. That sounds awfully like a ‘No’ . When I review books, I take care to read them thoroughly, and never more so than when my review is critical. — PolitiTweet.org