Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

On the contrary .@doonhamer60 , they left their country of origin because they were refugees. They choose to leave their country of refuge to come here (through several other countries) because they are migrants who wish to live in this particular country. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@janinethechef1. Thank you, but 'Short Breaks' and 'Unonventional Wisdom' are wholly different kinds of books, being collections of articles rather than a book-length argument. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@doonhamer60 So that in your view he is *still* a refugee when he leaves France and travels to this country.Will he *still* be a refugee if he then seeks to travel to the USA or Australia? Or does his refugee status end when he arrives here? Just checking. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@doonhamer60 You maintain that a refugee continues to be a refugee even after reachig a safe country. Thus if he escapes from Syria to Turkey, he is still a refuygee. And if he then travels from Turkey to France across several free states, he is *still* a refugee... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'Unconventional Wisdom' a collecton of essays dissenting from the supposed mainstream, is available form Amazon as a paperback or an e-book https://t.co/GmsNpNwlRK https://t.co/pCflwlk3JV — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Signed copies of almost all my books, especially my new book 'A Revolution Betrayed' on grammar schools, may be ordered from Blackwell's in Oxford 01865 792792 (overseas +44 1865 792792) https://t.co/uaCaux28X2 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

My account of visits to weird and unpleasant countries 'Short Breaks in Mordor' is still available from Amazon, as a paperback or an e-book: https://t.co/jTbCt2Vis5 https://t.co/UPEaThsBdt — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Signed copies of almost all my books, especially my new book 'A Revolution Betrayed' on grammar schools, may be ordered from Blackwell's in Oxford 01865 792792 (overseas +44 1865 792792) https://t.co/NoXQnRidVo — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Signed copies of almost all my books, especially my new book 'A Revolution Betrayed' on grammar schools, may be ordered from Blackwell's in Oxford 01865 792792 (overseas +44 1865 792792) https://t.co/zo7ibDDPYZ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Signed copies of almost all my books, especially my new book 'A Revolution Betrayed' on grammar schools, may be ordered from Blackwell's in Oxford 01865 792792 (overseas +44 1865 792792) https://t.co/ekucSLG0ew — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Signed copies of almost all my books, especially my new book 'A Revolution Betrayed' on grammar schools, may be ordered from Blackwell's in Oxford 01865 792792 (overseas +44 1865 792792) https://t.co/1VxVlVQRfF — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Signed copies of almost all my books, especially my new book 'A Revolution Betrayed' on grammar schools, may be ordered from Blackwell's in Oxford 01865 792792 (overseas +44 1865 792792) https://t.co/BvDVBQetex — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

[email protected] that, your anti-factual insistence that a person who has escaped from the persecution or danger he fled from is *still* a refugee if he then seeks entry to a *third* country is an absurdity. I cannot argue with irrational people, or those who ignore facts. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes , @davidtbtaylor Christopher Booker noted the creation of these diesel generator parks some years ago. He also noted the need to use gas to keep powerplants spinning, ready to cut in when the wind failed. The supposed triumph of wind power is propaganda. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@janinethechef1 Yet, encouragingly, in France the law requires traders to accept cash. They cannot lawfully refuse it. If the French can do it, we can do it. I am sick of people saying 'we can't accept cash' when they mean that they won't. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@alkemajan1. Oh dear. How can people be so ignorant, so lazy and so voluble in public about things they know nothing about? They are so *not* 'my beloved Tories' . I hate the Tory Party. I have been campaigning for its destruction for nearly 20 years. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

A Revolution Betrayed - How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System https://t.co/uCLr3UrcjJ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/2 .@doonhamer60. I said 'you still *haven't* answered my question'. (about what you *did* support). Had you said 'I *have*, or better still 'I have answered your question', there would have been no room for misunderstanding. But doubtless you were short of electrons. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Interesting @agrippaspqr . Is there a site where these low wind emergencies are recorded? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@doonhamer60. I should note that this tweet was based on a (very pardonable) misunderstanding of one of your tweets. I now accept that you did not support these wars. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

[email protected] that, your anti-factual insistence that a person who has escaped from the persecution or danger he fled from is *still* a refugee if he then seeks entry to a *third* country is an absurdity. I cannot argue with irrational people, or those who ignore facts. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 . @doonhamer60 In answer to this from me : 'I note you still haven’t answered my question about whether you supported any or all of the idealistic wars which created the migration crisis in the first place..' You replied: 'Yes, I did'. Easy to misunderstand, eh? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 @doonhamer60. I am sorry for missing this earlier answer. Alas, your response to my later requests for you to answer it - 'Yes, I did' rather than 'I have answered it' - was , how shall I put it, very easily misunderstood. So not as sorry as I would otehrwise be. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I don't recall *supporting* it .@Lumieres_mnt though I certainly *dis*approved of the US, French British and Saudi intervention in Syria which more or less destroyed that country on behalf of Al Qaeda. Russia, unlike the others, was *invited* by the sovereign government. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@doonhamer60. I thought so. Then your noisy humanitarianism is a fraud. If people like you had opposed these noisily virtuous adventures, there would be no migrant crisis. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@doonhamer60 This I think shows that you are much more concerned about *looking* good, to your fashionably liberal peer group, than about actually *doing* good. You have no concern for the poor of your own country. And if you’d opposed these disastrous wars, you would say so. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@eleanor50754254 Why? Millions have no access to cars and cannot drive. Your view means the whole country has to be designed round the car, making everything ugly, noisy , dirty - and hugely inconvenient and expensive for those without cars. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@doonhamer60 I note you still haven’t answered my question about whether you supported any or all of the idealistic wars which created the migration crisis in the first place.. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@doonhamer60 . You are not disputing my logic. You are asserting a blatant fallacy. A refugee is by definition fleeing *from* persecution or danger and seeks safety from it. Once he has achieved that safety, any further journeys he makes are l, by definition, migrations. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@ Portes I . But it is not the powerful, who launch these wars, who have to live with the consequences of mass immigration. It is always the poor. — PolitiTweet.org