Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@SrChmiel4 It is safety from the persecution that the person is fleeing that is at issue. Many countries are not safe from crime and disorder, corruption etc, by the standards once set by European countries. But that cannot be a reason to allow free passage across all borders. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

How so, .@pilgrimmission? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@kevfoyo Thanks for the kind words. Can you self-publish on Audible? I had no idea. I must look into it. There's an excellent studio in Oxford run ( as you might expect) by an ex-Navy man. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

To my total lack of surprise, the unpopular Sunday Papers have, like the unpopular Dailies, so far ignored my new book (published Nov 24 and sent out for review before that date). All credit to the New Statesman for giving a fair review to it. https://t.co/0ZbpV8F3OJ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@strategyjane. I have never pretended any such thing. I have no doubt that the Russian state has infiltrated the Russian Orthodox Church and its offshoots. But the 'Slava Ukraini' fan club in this country will hear nothing bad about Ukraine's many faults. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @daveguitarclark: @JohnMellis @ClarkeMicah @DrRosedaniels A lot less than that would even be capable of passing it in 2022. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Well .@rystarrussell, .@doonhamer60 has made a major effort to avoid answering this question and should be guaranteed a place in this country's next Olympic Wriggling Squad. I've now asked him again. If he won't answer, I'm saying goodbye. I can't stand unresponsive bores. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@doonhamer60 I'll ask again. If a refugee's still a refugee after he's left country X and found safety in (say)Turkey;& if he's still a refugee when he moves from safe Turkey through several safe countries to the safe UK, is he still a refugee if he then seeks entry to the USA? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

My pleasure @drrosedaniels — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

From O level to No level. A brief history of the O level examination: https://t.co/oJIefgz7sC — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@drrosedaniels. A brief history of the GCE O level: https://t.co/oJIefgz7sC — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I'd have guessed slightly higher @johnmellis. Fewer took A levels or went to University. But the qualifications they received were worth a great deal more than are the inflated certificates available now. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

B/B .@doonhamer60. This response, in which you self-importantly imagine you have 'touched a nerve', is a perfectly reasonable question about your definition of 'refugee'. I can see why you don't want to answer it (you absolutely haven't done so), but if you don't, it's goodbye. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

A/B .@doonhamer60. perhaps the most pathetically inadequate response I receive on twitter are those of the person who engages in a debate with me, does not like an acerbic response, and claims to have 'touched a nerve'. No, sweetie, don't flatter yourself. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

4/4. @doonhamer60. As I have pointed out, the Russian involvement in Syria was at the invitation of the Syrian state. It therefore has a wholly different character from the Western/Gulf intervention on behalf of Islamist rebels. This is not an an opinion, but a fact. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/4 .@doonhamer60. My other engagement was in a debate about the accusations of use of CW, made against the Assad state. For this (which in my case was principally the reporting of inconvenient facts) I was pelted with slime for months. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 .@doonhamer60. My main view on the Syria crisis was and remains that the (uninvited and lawless) intervention in that country on behalf of Islamist fanatics, by Western and Gulf powers, was a grave error. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@doonhamer60. You are, I see, turning quite nasty. Now you accuse me of having time on my hands because I reply to you. Earlier you berated me when I was otherwise engaged, and did not respond quickly. Now come the straw men... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Also . @doonhamer60, if all your opinions are really Edwardian, as you say, I am surprised at you using my Christian name , when I do not even know any part of your name and we have not been formally introduced. No Edwardian would dream of doing such a thing. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@doonhamer60. Indeed, and so can I and so can any man, but to assert that these are 'fairly representative' of 'the type of person who agrees with Peter Hitchens about asylum seekers' is not warranted by any research or facts. As you know. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@drrosedaniels. Thanks. They were called O levels then because they were a far tougher and better exam than the GCSEs. GCSEs were brought in because the comps couldn't cope wth O levels (or, as it turned out, the old A levels). — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@GaryFlo29335543 I do love these clever strategists. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Just imagine what the USA would do, if China treated America the way America treats Russia. https://t.co/QrynoPdSkc — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@jacko368 . You suffer from knowing less than half the story. You don't ask what NATO is, or why it was extended. You don't wonder how the USA would react if Mexico's legitimate govt was replaced by a pro-Russian regime in a Moscow-backed violent putsch. I can help, if you wish. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you, @derekbrierly As Dick Stroud points out in his excellent book 'The Secondary Mod', your experience was not unique. The slandering of Secondary Mods, their teachers and pupils, by the left has in my view been a disgrace. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

AS I saud, .@onstanleyon, I cannot argue with your personal experience. But I think the evidence shows that millions who did not pass the 11+ still went on the lead fulfilled lives. The incessant claim that they were all branded as failures seems to me to be questionable. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Indeed .@EvanHeasley If you are in the mainstream you don’t need to know anything. Only dissenters are required to do so, and it seldom does them much good when they do. They just get smeared all the more. See the Great Barrington Declaration. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@aDmcollingwood. Thank you. Witty and ingenious. Though also, as you point out, quite long. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

. @onstanleyon. Nobody can dispute your own experience. Yet the history of Secondary Moderns, explored in the book, suggests that many who went to them went on to live highly satisfactory lives. They were better than the bog-standard comps to which the poor are now condemned. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@northernessGetting in touch with Twitter’ is a bit like getting in touch with the moon. I have no idea how to do so. But @isabeloakeshott reveals some very interesting things in her article in the current Spectator. — PolitiTweet.org