Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No , .@doonhamer60. I was stating a fact. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@doonhamer60 . How I still yearn for your answer to this question. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@doonhamer60 Do please provide details of the research which lies behind this astonishing claim. Or is it another instance of the ( very common) use of the word ‘seems’ to mean ‘is not’ ? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@doonhamer60 . See here, where you unquestioningly accepted and repeated a falsehood without any effort to check. Not very Edwardian . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@doonhamer60 That is simply a statement of a significant difference, not support. If someone says that is support, he is misrepresenting me. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

PETER HITCHENS: Arrogance could send us towards nuclear catastrophe https://t.co/JtiqKvycWQ via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

My column in today’s Mail on Sunday https://t.co/Ebrhffzhfi — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Short Breaks. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@kevfoyo. The Orwell@reading was unrehearsed.Alas.m, nobody has ever asked me to record ‘Shirt Breaks’ , it was self-published(no publisher was interested in bringing it out. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Was I @doonhamer60? Can you produce any referenced quotations to back that up, or are you just believing what my Twitter enemies say? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Oh, most certainly @grumpyoxford. But the problem I state is one of the reasons why the car is so embedded in our society now. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@davidg66 Nope. You must acceppt legal tender (up to certain limits) in settlement of a debt. But if you are warned in advance by the trader that he will refuse cash, then you cannot contract the debt, and so cannot settle it. I've tried this one. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@deankempton. I should have thought that failing or refusing to give correct change, when paid more than the advertised price, was a straightforward common law theft. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@DeanKempton I don't think it's a courtesy. It's a duty. Courtesy is shown by doing it swiftly, honesty by doing it accurately. Some shopkeeprs have the change ready for you before you've even paid, correctly anticipating what coin or note you'll use. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Ah — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@bsnews. People keep telling me this as if I was claiming that this *is* the law. I'm clearly not. I'm making a simple point about who is a refugee, and who is a migrant. Refugees are coming *from* a place they want to leave. Migrants are going *to* a place they wish to enter. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@grumpyoxford. The problem is the conscription of young mothers into the workforce, who may need, in one hour, to leave work, pick up children from day care or school, go the shops, go home. Hard for them to do this by bicycle. Hopeless on Oxford's buses. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@acemccain8 Generally I reckon I could do it better now. But sometimes there's an immediacy, thanks to the place I was in when I wrote it, which I know I couldn't replicate. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@iantaylordover. I definitely think we should copy the French and make it an offence to refuse cash . Absurd to produce coins and notes with the King's head and superscription on them, protected against forgery, and for people to be able to refuse them as payment for goods. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I'd forgotten about this long-ago interview for The Times. https://t.co/krx4cTqbC2 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, observable and demonstrable facts .@iantaylordover. Try imagining you're a non-driver and have no car, for just a couple of days. See how you get on. Lots have to https://t.co/LDh84EThj1. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you @maggie_tat. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

That's handy. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@iantaylordover. Alas, traders are only obliged to accept cash 'in settlement of a debt'. So you must first contract such a debt to them. If the trader states before you buy that he will not accept cash, then no debt can be contracted. Sorry. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Give examples, .@jamesladbroke .I am not expected or required to give a 'dramatic reading'. Rather the contrary. These are books of description, argument and polemic, not thrillers. Maybe it is you who are bored and want to finish quickly. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Preview my Mail on Sunday column today: Arrogance and folly that could yet send us hurtling towards nuclear catastrophe https://t.co/OCHeyxPjrC via @mailplus — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@shsaesvshav. The purpose of the Convention is to ensure that the would-be refugee can escape the place where he is in peril. Once he has done so, it has done its work. Refugees can seldom choose where they flee to. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Perhaps you just prefer his voice, or agree with him more, @jamesladbroke. No doubt he reads it very well but I regard him as a bit of a broken reed since he was a neutral spectator in the crucial early months of the Covid panic. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@janinethechef1. I rather hope that's it. I never much liked travelling long distances anyway, as I hate flying and airports, and dislike beng away from home, and the people I used to travel with, especially in China, aren't available any more. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Well, @jamesladbroke, there isn't much I can do about that. I must confess that you are the first to offer such a complaint, in many years, so I must wonder whether the problem is particular to you, or at most one confined to a minority. Perhaps Stephen Fry might do a better job. — PolitiTweet.org