Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: .@friel_raymond.So here’s an uncomfortable question. Did you miss the bit very near the start of the book where I said tha… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you, .@gmccor — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2. .@7kq201. In any case modern ‘grammar schools’ are merely super-selective comprehensives. Their pupils take comprehensive examinations of far lower standards than those which existed before the 1965 revolution. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, @7kq201. Middle class parents trying to save huge fees besiege such schools, while it is, er, questionable whether state primaries in poor areas urge their pupils to seek entry them. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Why,.@garethlee? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@friel_raymond.So here’s an uncomfortable question. Did you miss the bit very near the start of the book where I said that the surviving rump of besieged grammar schools gives no indication of how a national academically selective system would work? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ussrandthem: @MrEddieSimpson @dickietunnel @JColossus @ClarkeMicah Ah so what you're saying is, ''take drugs out of the hands of minori… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Jimbo79a. What actually happened in Portugal : The Alleged Portuguese Drug Paradise Examined https://t.co/jcPMxJJNDi — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@jimbo79a No, Portugal formally admitted the truth, that it had not been enforcing its drug laws for years. Sone crime increased afterwards, some didn’t, but, as nothing much had changed, the general drug-related squalor didn’t change much either. Hyped event. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yeah,@cjsnowdon. ‘These short days in winter didn’t oughter be allowed! Equal days all the year round! Stands to reason!’……..Sweetie, even if the clocks went forward all the way to Peking Time, the days would still be short in winter. Get over it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Curious that Rcn leader Pat Cullen has *not* been much questioned about the demonstrably thin and patchy support for strike action among her membership. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ @dickietunnel. You cannot fail unless you try first. We have not been trying since 1968. See my book ‘The War We Never Fought’. Japan and South Korea successfully do something old,which also worked when we used to do it.Why not copy them, instead of looking for something new? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@musthavea2 I am referring to the union *leader* looking for another job, not the membership. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@resistance_red. I doubt this lot know what class war is. I suspect their spin doctors have advised them that ‘standing up to militants’ will shore up their vote. I think this is a mistake on their part. We are living among teenagers and dimwits. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

On the usual basis, .@ben_shiels. Is the action proportionate to the aim? I learned during several years as a labour reporter that this varied quite a lot. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ resistance_red. Campaigning. Nurses are much-loved and respected. I’ll say it again: if I led Britain’s nurses and could not get them a substantial pay increase *without* striking, I’d look for another job. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Although widely unreviewed and rarely displayed, my new book ‘A Revolution Betrayed’ is selling briskly. Signed copies may be ordered from Blackwell’s in Oxford 01865 792792 . Unsigned also available from them or of course from A****n. https://t.co/ie93KE7vM1 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@dickietunnel. What a horrible, cruel suggestion, which would ruin the lives of both drug abusers and their families. Japan and South Korea show that enforcing laws against drug possession severely reduces drug abuse. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ChrisHall250TPI: @jeremycorbyn Nurses should not strike. As @ClarkeMicah pointed out, nurses are one of the most popular workers in the… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: I thinkthis, by Geertgen Tot St Jans. , is one of the loveliest Nativity scenes ever painted.. it’s in the National Galler… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

In what way,@stornowayguy do I support ‘the prevailing orthodoxy of neoliberal inequality’. You have slipped the surly bonds of reality. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@stornowayguy. This is the opposite of the truth. It is the children of the working class who have been most totally abandoned by the wealth-based selection of supposed ‘comprehensives’ . The Sutton Trust has established the prevalence of ‘social selection’ . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

This stuff deals with the modern rump of pseudo-grammars, totally unlike the pre-1965 national system — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Why does Jenkins say ‘even the police’? The police are the armed wing of the liberal elite, and have little or no interest in enforcing socially conservative laws. England's police want to decriminalise hard drugs – Simon Jenkins’ https://t.co/x3zsVcqDik — PolitiTweet.org

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2/2 .@secmoderns The destruction of a *national* academically selective system led to the *national*!devaluation of public exams and of university entrance and degrees. There are now *no* schools in the U.K. , private or state, which approach the standards of pre-1965 grammars. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@secmoderns. 1/2,’Domination’ is an exaggeration. But even so non-fee-paying schools were storming Oxbridge from 1944 until the mid-60s. The surviving ‘grammars’ are just super-selective comps, besieged by the middle class. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@stirnowayguy. Bilge. Comps imposed a general lower standard on all. Many Secondary Mod children took proper O and A levels, which had to be abolished or devalued to cope with the plunging standards of comps. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@stornowayguy Roughly 65% of grammar school pupils were from working class homes in 1953. How many ‘good’ comps ( actually way below grammar standards)?can claim to have anything like this proportion? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@stornowayguy. 1/2 What is the point of a plural society if people don’t even *know* that dissident books exist? An author who doesn’t care about reviews is either a fool or a liar. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Most poor areas of England and Wales have no grammars. In Scotland there are no grammars at all(and comprehensive education, with no excuses to fall back on, is a blatant failure there) .@billypitt17 — PolitiTweet.org