Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@alexcfisher . So sorry, I was not aware that anybody had been charged with this offence, let alone tried according to due process and convicted. Please give details. The papers miss so much. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Signed copies of my new book about to be despatched from Blackwell’s in Oxford. They can be ordered by calling 01865 792792. You may need to leave a voice message. https://t.co/22PkaPAhrk — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@hughdellar. Do you think you might be able to justify that seriously defamatory (and astonishingly ignorant and stupid) insult with a single fact? If not, do you have the courage or manners to withdraw it, and apologise? Let's be in touch in a few hours. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @Phil99331183 I don't fit any tribe. Yesterday I defended the hereditaries in the Lords, defended the freedom of the rail unions to pursue their members' interests and opposed identity cards. I take all these positions thanks to experience,research and reason. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 Most kind. @Phil99331183 . But I think most of my opponents, and indeed many broadcasting presenters, *think* they know what I think because they rely on conventional prejudice. I sensed that the presenter yesterday was shocked to discover my position on the EU referendum. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@evanheasley3. Telling the truth for its own sake is a major moral duty. It may have no immediate or discernible good effect on day-to-day events, and often attracts abuse, but it matters in eternity, as do all the most important things. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@patanna. Ah, there you are. I was worried, as you did not respond to my request for evidence.I didn't choose to discuss migration yesterday(it's a subject I hate because people get over-wrought and irrational so quickly).The BBC did.But when it arises,I apply reason and facts. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@hughdellar. I didn't ask how they *did* it. We all know how they do it . I asked how they could still be considered refugees, when they had already escaped from the thing they were fleeing from. As you know, they cannot be, because they have at that point become migrants. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The Geneva Conventions deal with the laws of war, @jonnymain2011 . The issue is not international law, but timeless logic:how can you still be a refugee, once you have escaped whatever you were fleeing from and arrived in a safe country? If you then go further,you are a migrant. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Oxford’s departing Vice-Chancellor Louise Richardson, whose university appears to favour state school applicants, has told the FT she even so sent her own children to private schools. ‘Because I wanted them to have the best education they could get’. Ho hum. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Takes me back : Richard Littlejohn in today’s Daily Mail. https://t.co/yNklLLRUnE — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@nickdixoncomic I suspect that the BBC's left-wing audience were *more* enraged than normal by my appearance, because they had thought that I had been banned from the BBC's TV airwaves for good, and so were shocked to hear a dissenting voice *at all*. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 @nickdixoncomic. I was surprised to *be* invited back on to BBC TV after more than two years away. But I accepted, in the full knowledge that I would be in a doomed minority on the panel, and abused by many viewers. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @Paul_MS0: @Haggis_UK Peter Hitchens is the epitome of arrogance as ignorance — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@hughdellar. People who find themselves defending secret police raids on monasteries should perhaps pause to wonder if their enthusiasms and partisanship have not carried them too far into deep water. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@JohnFarren15 You miss my point. People such as @edwardlucas insist there was great fear of Russia among its neighbours in the years after the fall of Communism. I say the main lobby for NATO expansion was and remans arms manufacturers. There is proof: https://t.co/uQpbkWbBZx — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I do. So what? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The dreary sound of one mind closing. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ChrisAn39407384 Take a look at an actual map and see how many neighbours Russia has, from North Korea to Norway. Then tell me how many of those neighbours have hostile relations with Russia. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@vechainwoo. Have you even *looked* at the article you commented on? Dingbat. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@johnfarren15. It began as such a protest, but one not universally supported by the population (Ukraine, then as now, is divided on many issues). It was then taken over by an armed mob. If you think an elected leader has betrayed his office,then you elect a replacement, you know — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1.@mykhailoxpih No doubt, but also riddled with their equivalents (armed with a *lot* of money) from the EU and the USA. Mearsheimer thought invasion inevitable because the USA would not stop its attempts to align Ukraine with the West. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@haggis_uk — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: .@edujdw And perhaps I wouldn't. My very experienced colleague Sue Reid, a reporter of huge experience and tenacity, has… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: .@benpbradshaw. What happens in UK Asylum Courts : https://t.co/mEjJAuTUa6 @benpbradshaw. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@doonhamer60 You made that up: See https://t.co/CEl6t4DzO4 32mins :25 secs .Me :'I admire the people who do it enormously I admire their energy , their spirit, their determination to make this extraordinary journey'. 🦉 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@jimmysecuk. No doubt. But not all the NATO troops in Estonia are Estonians, cleverclogs. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Chris33Davies I rarely drive in Oxford, so I have no real idea of this schem, to which I have paid little attention. . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Wrong, .@stuarthelmer I blocked you for being an Olympic-standard bore, incapable of eve the semblance of rational debate. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@peterbdoran. I couldn't care less. What would you expect them to say? The Colonists would have been defeated without French money, arms, ships and solders, and if it hadn't suited France to aid them, they'd long ago have been forgotten. — PolitiTweet.org