Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Blow the trumpets, light the beacons –it’s time to welcome back hereditary peers to the House of Lords https://t.co/PKpq2rYuvc via @mailplus — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@kikidevine1. Not in the slightest. There's no parallel between these events anyway,but Halifax was frantic to get Britain into a war with Germany in 1939,hence the Polish guarantee,which achieved that aim. Then, when it (predictably) went badly wrong, he was keen to seek peace. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Was he right about Putin, .@gillettelucy? How? I've been right about the Iraq War (about which my late brother was mistaken), about Libya, about Syria,about the Covid panic, about the Tory Party and about the drive to war with Russia, against which I warned in 2008. For example. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@gillettelucy. Indeed, if only we could, but what has that to do with this discussion? My late brother, bless him. made a bit of mess into his most ambitious entry into the world of foreign policy. And he knew little of this part of the world. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@lumieres_mnt. I have asked you in the past to produce evidence for these claims and, paradoxically, you cannot. I make no claims to academic status but I think, by the standards of journalism, I make a reasonable effort to research and justify my positions. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @FraserCroft: @Ant1068067711 @ClarkeMicah Which rather proves my point. Only 15000 out of 3.2 million people that admitted taking drugs… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@rosie__mrsk . I expect so. You've been spared a lot, anyway. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

If you have no respect for your opponents, you will learn nothing from them and close your mind. This low-grade production is the Straw Man fallacy in a new form, scornful, triumphalist and inaccurate caricature of anyone who disagrees with you. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@dave_m_robinson. I think they answer this question by their behaviour once they arrive. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you @rosie__mrsk . I am so sick of people who know nothing of the 1938 crisis boldly stating that we are living through it again (when they also have little idea off what is going on now). — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Mykhailoxpih Either you have no idea what happened at Munich in 1938, or you have no idea what is going on in Ukraine now (possibly you don't understand either event). The two are as comparable as bubblegum and space travel. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@charlestannock. It hasn't disappeared. You're still Olympically naive. An accusation of dishonesty, as implied in the word 'denial', is a serious assault on my character. My accurate attribution of naivety to you is not such an assault. In fact it excuses you. Not your fault. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@janinethechef1. I am pleased to hear it. Did they call you back, or did you have to keep on calling them? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

4/4 4/4 .@charlestannock. I will tell you who wrote it . My friend and adversary @edwardlucas , who, while taking the opposite position to me on this war, has the guts, sense and wisdom to be truthful about Ukraine. Read here : https://t.co/gwbojr25dK — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@charlkestannock — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@charlestannock. I support no such plan. Your account of the violent overthrow of Yanukovych is hopelessly inaccurate. I refer you to the relevant pages of Professor Richard Sakwa's 'Frontline Ukraine'. What interesting friends you have. This explains a *lot* . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @scrawshan: @VictoriaTrow1 @ClarkeMicah @nickdixoncomic He is pompous, but I agree with most of what he says — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@crockejo . I invariably choose the side of my own country and people, who do not benefit at all from the USA's absurd and ill-advised policy of goading Russia, or from its increasingly damaging and dangerous economic and political consequences. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@magdalendolores. I am afraid this argument is tripe, marinated in bilge. Please see https://t.co/2PAaVi5TmI — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@charlestannock. Personal insults? I have said nothing about you personally, except to draw attention to your obvious and demonstrable ignorance of the history of the region, whereas you publicly (and falsely) accuse me of dishonesty by your use of the word 'deny'. . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@crockejo. Yeah. Ah, well then, it obviously requires neither evidence nor due process nor the scrutiny of independent media. Which is lucky. Because it tsn't going to get them in Gloriouus, Free, Democratic Ukraine. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yeah, .@lurke_tmza obviously a right-wing putsch at Portland Place. Or perhaps not : https://t.co/n88OvdOJT8 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@andrewprlevi.The use of the word 'denial' is often an attempted smear. It can only properly be used against those who deny proven facts. People such as you seek to gull the naive by using it against dissent & minority opinion which you hope to suppress. What does that make you? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

[email protected] can't help it if you're Olympically naive and uninformed about the history, politics and diplomacy of this region. That is your problem. But I would be grateful, even so, if you would excuse me from your ludicrous sermons about the glories of Ukrainian freedom. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

4/4 .@charkestannock. I will tell you who wrote it . My friend and adversary @edwardlucas, who, while taking the opposite position to me on this war, has the guts, sense and wisdom to be truthful about Ukraine. Read here : https://t.co/u0eNHYjYFl — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/4 .@charlestannock. Who wrote : ' [In Ukraine] Senior positions are bought and sold. Healthcare and education are plagued by kickbacks. The security service, the SBU, is infested with intrigue and sleaze – and penetrated by Russian agents of influence.' — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/4 .@charlestannock . Who wrote : ' [Ukraine's] Oligarchs run media empires, with politicians and officials on the payroll. The judicial system is a festering mess where arrests, prosecutions and verdicts are used as score-settlers between political and commercial rivals...' — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/4 .@charlestannock . Who wrote: 'Ukraine’s corruption – worse than Russia’s in many eyes – has deep roots. Power and wealth are deeply intertwined. Among the public, mistrust of a predatory state is entrenched, and all too justified...'? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@charlestannock. Ukraine's last nationally-elected President was violently overthrown in a US-backed putsch in 2014. Since then there has been no serious parliamentary or other democratic opposition. The country is indeed 'vibrant', but not with tolerance or liberty. — PolitiTweet.org