Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@matriux800. I have not said that. But generalised secret police raids on the institutions of a particular church suggest an animus rather than specific criminal charges. And if there are such charges, why the need for this spectacle? Arrest, charge, try according to law. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@paulkearney12 The 'passed through safe countries' thing may be dull, but only because your mind is closed to it. It's a statement of the obvious.Defenders of unrestricted mass immigration never address it, as they know it to be true, and know it does not help their cause. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@PaulKearney12 I repeaterly reject the label of 'intellectual'. It is plain to anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear that I *am* frequently abused. It is possible that Tommy Robinson fans agree with *you* about some things. That does not in itself make you wrong — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@charlestannock I'm ceaselessly accused,quite falsely, of defending the Russian repressive regime, which I have for years described as a sinister tyranny. Yet the Slava Ukraini faction ceaselessly apologise for that country's many serious faults, and nobody bats an eye. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 @charlestannock. I am not 'in denial' about anything. A free country has a serious parliamentary opposition and independent media. Police are subject to law, innocence is presumed and charges are made before independent courts with due process. And in glorious Ukraine? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Not sure of your point @mykhailoxpih . The 'West' were perfectly happy to ignore Russia's savage repression of Chechnya under Yeltsin. Ever wondered why? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@mikeliamsmith Yes, sweetie, I know. But my point is that the thousands of'customers' who made his criminal business so profitable over so many years, the people who actually sustain the drug trade, go wholly unprosecuted and unpunished. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@charlestannock. A sovereign country may do what it wishes on its own territory and its supporters are equally free to apologise for and excuse heavy-handed state actions, if they wish. But secret police raids on monasteries aren't really the actions of a liberal democracy. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@charlestannock An absurd and crude over-simplification (also your characterisation of Kazakhstan as 'democratic' is hilarious). All the USA's neighbours have 'degrees of tension with it', and not just the immediate ones. btw Perhaps you're too young to recall Vietnam and Iraq? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The UK’s most flourishing agricultural sector . If there’s a ‘war on drugs’ how come the marijuana market is so strong? ‘Cannabis farm paid for daughter’s tuition fees’ https://t.co/Mo9vJ0KEiC — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Danny Finkelstein ( who should know) agrees with the point I repeatedly made on Politics Live on Monday - an elected second chamber would be a disaster: Axing the Lords is a recipe for bad laws https://t.co/vAO26P50Z3 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@janemaunsell I am not arguing about *legality* and have made no assertions about law. I am arguing about the truth. Refugees cease to be refugees when they reach safe countries. If they then choose to continue travelling, they are migrants. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@nodnic2 . There is another side to this . Please see https://t.co/TdP3IAad2s — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @BloomsburyBooks: How has the dissolution of grammar schools impacted British education? In A Revolution Betrayed, Peter Hitchens gives… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @peanut_astro: How the West Brought War to Ukraine | by Benjamin Abelow | Medium Peter Hitchens post. https://t.co/mdojwy6CdS — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ItsTaz1989: In Defence of Hereditary Peers. Peter Hitchens is right. https://t.co/9EcmhhkImg — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

As usual, the opposite of what most people believe is the truth. Hereditary peers owed nobody anything and could stand up to govt. MPs, chosen by party machines for safe seats, and easily sacked, fear the whips and do what Downing Street tells them to do. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@doonhamer60. Anything rather than admit your mistake, eh? I have been saying this for years. It is a common fallacy among self-righteous liberals to think that opposition to mass immigration entails any dislike of migrants. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@curtainsilicon. A few days ago, I suggested some reading to you. Have you done it? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Please read this superb, brief, potent and rather frightening antidote to conventional wisdom over Ukraine. https://t.co/suGTXqlKkA — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@PeterMcC66 I think that may be rude to teachers. .@hughdellar — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@nickdixoncomic, .@hughdellar is *so* dim he thinks I was *threatening* you when I said (after you suggested a BBC helpline to deal with people disconcerted by my TV appearances) that you should be careful what you wished for. Where does one turn? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

You are *so* thick that you make mince look runny, .@hughdellar. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@hughdellar is a liar (making accusations against me he cannot substantiate, despite being given generous opportunities to do so ). He is a coward, lacking courage to admit his fault and apologise for it. And, as he demonstrates here, he is also a prize fool and a titanic bore. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Gosh, you are dim, .@hughdellar. It is a *joke*, suggesting that the BBC may actually take up the suggestion. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Where is your answer, .@hughdellar? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@thombullock. Why an unelected upper house is good fro freedom and law https://t.co/hlQiRlPGWI — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@thombullock. The reasoned argument is unanswerable. The hereditaries owed *nothing* to the government of the day and could stand up to it as MPs seldom dare to do. Their loss was a great blow to freedom and law. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

And .@semanthos, *everybody* nowadays misses out the 1914-1921 period, ending with the Treaty of Riga, in which Berlin, Vienna and Moscow slugged it out for control of this region. Berlin very nearly triumphed, as too few know. Russia is not the only imperial villain here. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@semanthos. Many present-day countries in eastern Europe were for many centuries not countries but provinces (if that) of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey and Russia. This does not really tell us much about Ukraine's brief period as a sovereign state since 1991. — PolitiTweet.org