Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@secmidrrns. Selection impacts 100% of state secondary schools. But it is selection by parental *wealth* - which the modern left weirdly prefer to selection by pupil *ability* . All good schools are selective. But some forms of selection are more honest and rational. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you @h_a_treesong — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@tedyorkshire1 Odd, then, that in England and Wales more than 1,000 grammar schools were in fact destroyed. Today’s bog standard comps are worse than most Secondary Mods. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Well spotted! — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you @denismashane — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Please do supply this evidence .@garethlee — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Why , .@jane123tpwers. What was wrong with my QT appearance? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Please give details,.@mfaithfull. They’d surely have had to get through U.K. passport control. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@alkemajan1 The very idea! But I see no evidence that books are reviewed because their authors are interesting. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

In what way ‘passed’.@zenstrategist? That would suggest an active effort to move them westwards. I know of no evidence for this. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@bikemcbikeface Ms Cullen had made a lengthy attack on me, which I did not interrupt. She then repeatedly tried to talk over my defence. @libdemdaisy made a long, repetitive statement about her views on migration. I very briefly interrupted to ask her a simple question. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

And @libdemdaisy had no answer to my question. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ldnvm . False. I said nothing about making nurses’ strikes illegal . I said they *should* not strike. I am sorry you don’t know the difference. I also said (had you listened) that because of this they should be better paid. Stop looking for enemies. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@kayleighm95. If you listen, you’ll see that I say that too. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Very likely .@spikyaphrodite Then again, do all state primaries encourage bright children from poor homes to attempt them? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@comp_future. I do not * ignore* it. I specifically point out that a few surviving grammars in mainly well-off areas, taking comprehensive school examinations, give no indication of how an actual academically selective system worked or would work. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Please stop misrepresenting my position comp_future. The tiny rump of surviving grammars are just highly-selective comps, besieged by the well-off. They give no indication of how a national academically selective system worked, or would work. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @kynohy: @ClarkeMicah @RogueRad If there had been more Grammar Schools alive, the lockdown policy, which hit hard those who did not belo… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Has it been * written* @dentakesthebus?? By contrast Dick Stroud’s superb book ‘Secondary Mod’ has been written and (self) published, and wholly undermines the fashionable slandering of these schools. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

They did a lot more than that @roguerad . They greatly diminished the power of private schools and maintained generally high educational standards. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@d1bluebird indeed, and I have mentioned it here. But is neither a daily nor Sunday newspaper. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@isacclay170493 That I was banned for nearly five years and now am not. And that the process by which such choices are made is entirely secret and unaccountable. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Oh, .@oldselangor I amwholly used to being in a minority, and perched on the end of the table, on all such programmes. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/3 My main conclusion is that the normal well-informed reader should be aware that the reviewing, displaying etc of books is not a neutral, objective process. It is frightening to wonder how many good or important works must vanish without trace. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 There is no rule that says all books must be reviewed. But ‘A Revolution Betrayed’ concerns an important much-discussed issue. Bloomsbury is a major publishing house. And I am@not totally obscure… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/3 I’d be glad to be corrected, but nearly a month after publication, my book on the destruction of grammar schools, ‘A Revolution Betrayed’ remains unreviewed by any unpopular daily or Sunday paper… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @philosophybites: I’ll be chairing this — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: @gnickodonnell I definitely bought the wrong bicycle a few years ago. Nothing but problems. But does that count against be… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@gingergiant Draw what conclusions you like. From 1996 to 2018 I appeared on QT pretty much yearly. After March 2018, the invitations stopped. This year I was invited in again. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@chicagoslew International comparisons make this clear. I really cannot see why striking will alter these things for the better. There are many problems with the NHS. Asking dedicated staff to neglect patients won’t solve them. — PolitiTweet.org