Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes .@jlb284, but did it produce any evidence? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Three linked quiz questions for you .@sallywilts: 1. Who was *responsible* for the outbreak of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War? 2. Who physically started it? 3. Who benefited from it? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@donnachadelong I don't suppose you approve of the (failed) attack on the US Capitol by Trumpoids who wouldn't accept that Joe Biden was legitimate. How then can you approve of an equally lawless attack on an elected government in Kiev? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@donnachadelong It was the violent and lawless overthrow of a legitimate elected head of state. These are facts. The rest is opinion. I don't like him any more than you do. Not sure how Chechnya or Georgia are relevant to this matter. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

What is, @mikewatso? I'm sure his work is perfectly workmanlike etc, but I've always found him stodgy and conventional and don't understand the praise lavished on his stuff. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Indeed, .@MykhailoXPIH She was corrected later. Weaselly of her to blame her briefing rather than admit it was what she thought. But she could not deny what she said at the time, and nor can you. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @DaversPat: @donnachadelong @ClarkeMicah @BobSmithWalker @sallywilts Yes, the Poles should have just waited and voted out the Communists… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@donnachadelong. I don't see what is funny about that. Walesa's movement was entirely peaceful and eventually got rid of an illegitimate government which had come to power on Soviet bayonets. No comparison. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes, it is interesting .@tabbers1968 . The recruits of 1952 would have been largely the products of pre-war elementary schools. I note that Slim reckoned the Army could teach illiterates to read without any real difficulty. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@jlb284 I take it that your assertion that 'I am given to understand that there is evidence of electoral interference' means that you read something about it in the papers. Or do you have some actual evidence to which you can refer me? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@jlb284. Quite so, but our intelligence conflict with Moscow, including a very active SIS station in Moscow (remember the fake rock?) is a part of our slavish intelligence and military relationship with the USA. I doubt anyone in Russia knows what our values are, or cares. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@deanofwestcliff. Is that so? I am so sorry to cast a shadow on your day, but I think you may need to check and then withdraw the second part of your tweet. Then, if you have either manners or courage, you might apologise. But that will be for your sake, not mine. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you .@bigirv426 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@sallywilts. Most decent, thoughtful and informed views tend to be in a minority most of the time (guess why) . If you find yourself in the majority, start wondering if you have made a terrible mistake. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank heaven for that. .@garysparrow41 . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Quite so @iainmrodgers. But my point is also that the 'Russians can't be free' smears are disproved by Russia's own history, and that without destructive foreign interventions, Russia might well now be a civilised law-governed country. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@sallywilts Until they saw the opulence of his successor, who they rightly got rid of by voting him out (the proper way). Only a gullible child would claim that one side in Ukrainian politics is clean and honest, and the other side not. Do you know nothing of that country? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@tonykisil. Several tons of gold were funnelled tro the Bolsheviks, laundered through the super-sinister middleman Parvus Helphand . It was not Lenin's first dalliance with anti-Russian foreign governments. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@bobsmithwalker It should be remembered that John Sweeney was also in the front rank of the screaming electronic mob which denounced me for rightly standing up against the Covid panic. Wherever there is a wrong side, Sweeney will be on it. @johnsweeneyliar — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Ah , OK. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@narkpensarn Where did I say that? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@tonykisil There never was a ‘Bolshevik Revolution’ . There was a conspiratorial coup d’eta in Petrograd, financed and sponsored by the Imperial German Government, which would have given gold to the Devil if he had promised to take Russia out of the war. https://t.co/TknqozJX7V — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@tonykisil . I am referring to the Constituent Assembly , elected during the period of Provisional Govt which followed the overthrow of the Tsar in February 1917. The Bolsheviks, lacking a majority in the CA, closed it down by force after their putsch in October 1917. https://t.co/TknqozJX7V — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@johnmellis. And what is Poroshenko’s house like? Have you checked? Ukraine is as full of super-rich Oligarchs as Russia. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @Cov3raa: Savagely accurate: — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: .@johnsweeneyliar Yeah, the Kremlin loves the way I call Putin a sinister tyrant and denounce his invasion as barbaric and… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you @tomsyvret — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @Kto_Kogo_: @ClarkeMicah If you really want to depress yourself with a “compare and contrast”, read Denis Healey’s autobiography and the… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@patmoore1984. It’s a good idea. She and her super lhawk husband Robert Kagan are very interesting. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@windshearyoga. Poroshenko won an election from which millions of Ukrainians were excluded, after the main opposition party had ceased to exist. Yanukovych was never defeated at the polls. He was, I repeat, overthrown in a violent putsch. Sorry you didn’t notice. — PolitiTweet.org