Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@paulgwesspon. @gcmarxist Yes, and that ended 30+ years ago, when the Soviet Union collapsed, as I just explained. All is made clear here, for those with open minds . Don't read it if your mind is shut, as you might do yourself a mischief https://t.co/uQpbkVU17Z — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@johnsweeneyliar Yeah, the Kremlin loves the way I call Putin a sinister tyrant and denounce his invasion as barbaric and stupid. Well, this is what they most hope for, isn't it? Are you stupid because you're a liar, or a liar because you're stupid? Great question of the age. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@davidofengland. Nobody seems to have any idea where the name comes from, which seems in a way, rather appropriate. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 "big_al007. Most powerful countries attack their neighbours at some point, especially (though not uniquely) if those neighbours do - or even might - ally with their enemies. Ask Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Spain, France, Mexico, Cuba, Canada etc etc. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 @big__al007. We are not the neighbours of the Russian Federation. As a nation, we have no territorial or maritime disputes with them. What disputes we do have arise from our slavish participation, since the 1990s, in the USA's strange anti Russian spasm. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@paulgwesson. NATO was formed as a *defensive* alliance against the USSR and the Warsaw Pact. Both of these ceased to exist 30 years ago. NATO became an offensive alliance when it bombed Serbia,and thereafter. It also expanded despite specific promises made by the West. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

At last I have actually seen it. A book of mine *on display* . Thank you, Blackwell’s . You can order signed copies of almost all my books from them on 01865 761171. https://t.co/3npmzPuG4b — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Brianpa42887083 I think we got what there was. If he had really been the genius you imagine, he would have defied the COVID panic. He fell because his power was based on fear, and MPs stopped fearing him.He had no big idea. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@sallywilts Do you apply this to all countries? If so, back to what date? Also, what’s your view of Ukraine’s 1992 refusal to allow Crimea to vote on its future? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@warren_dunn. I suspect the obvious answer is the right one. Intelligence can be put to many uses. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@sallywilts Are there any other countries you wish to ‘push back’ or any other peoples you wish to use as the instruments for doing so? And how far do you think Russia should be pushed? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@bbuilder66. Few people in Britain know anything of this region. It doesn't stop them intervening there and having strong opinions. What I seek to do is to explain is that if China did to the USA what we do to Russia, the USA would react much as Russia does. People would suffer. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@sallywilts. Do Western European nations, Gulf states and the USA (and now China) not also intervene in the Middle East and Africa, sometimes killing large numbers of people in the process? Do some countries have the freedom to do this, and others not? How is this decided? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ipricepsychauth. Oh, we have to expect this now. The revolutionaries have captured all power, and of course this plays out most obviously in culture. Get used to it. We are living in a marshmallow totalitarianism. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Round about the same time all the other major powers in the world learn the same thing, and give back all *their* annexations, I expect. @sallywilts — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@sallywilts. What interest do you have, and more importantly what interest does *Britain* have in 'Pushing back Russia' ? I love the way that countries surrounded by sea, or with feeble, cowed neighbours, think that borders are just playthings. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/3 @janinethechef1 There are so many ways in which these pictures tell us who and what we really are, and quell any foolish feelings we may have about being superior to our forebears. But how long will they survive? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 @janinethechef1 I went yesterday to see the newly-restored Piero della Francesca nativity, and while looking for it was halted in my tracks by two of the world's very few Vermeers, a lovely Ruysdael,two Rembrandts, a Van Eyck, a Holbein and the picture I displayed here. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/3 @janinethechef1. I have gained hugely by visiting the great galleries of Europe, and only now realise what a giant privilege it is to have the London National Gallery so accessible, and for nothing. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@baloghstephen. I was measured for the same role and rejected. But the transformational power of my *one* appearance on HIGFY, in terms of public recognition, was immense. The effect of this dozens of times over is incalculable. Celebrity is a source of power. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@baloghstephen Johnson is a showbusiness character, and TV celebrity not a politician.Hence his use of a stage name. As I have said many times, Ian Hislop and the HIGNFY people turned him into someone that millions *think* they know and wrongly imagine to be their friend. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 @baloghstephen. Johnson is a showbusiness character, and TV celebrity not a politician. As I have said many times, Ian Hislop and the HIGNFY people turned him into someone that millions *think* they know and wrongly imagine to be their friend. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

If you are going to use 17th century English , get your conjugations right . It’s actually very similar to modern German and still survives in parts of Yorkshire. The verb ending that goes with ‘Thou’ is ‘est’ , not ‘eth’ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: .@markpensam . Why on Earth would I seek to *excuse* an action I have repeatedly and consistently condemned as both morall… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The topic was the danger of nuclear annihilation arising from the Ukraine war .@nagarjuiniann — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

‘Boris’ Johnson’s grasp of foreign affairs is that of a large child. The veneer of classical education, sub-Wodehouse wit and continental holiday sophistication conceals a historically and politically ignorant hole in the air. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@markpensam . Why on Earth would I seek to *excuse* an action I have repeatedly and consistently condemned as both morally wrong and politically stupid since the moment it took place? Look it up. The claim is absurd. Give it up. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Actually, I do not overstate the merits of academic selection . I make limited claims for them, but show that such selection is far superior to our present reactionary and crude system of selection by wealth. .@newstatesman — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

It has been some time since @talktv have posted my conversations with Mike Graham @iromg. You’d have to ask them. I am useless at finding things on the internet. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@sallywilts, as it is plain that you are seeing things that are not there ( seldom a good sign) I think it is more pressing for you to find out what is amiss with you. — PolitiTweet.org