Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @curtistmann: @readthebooks22 @ClarkeMicah @MichaelCooper09 I have been in Waterstones a number of times recently and it's quite obvious… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @shaunmwing: @ClarkeMicah "So I was not a Tory, or even a conservative: I was by nature and upbringing an actual *reactionary — as it ha… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

6/6 .@readthebooks22 So how can *you* 'attest' that what I have here shown to be true is not true? Books will not 'sell constantly' (my first book has in fact been in print for 20 years *despite* bookshops) unless they get a fair wind. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

5/6 .@readthebooks22 So *that* is how I would know and how I do know. For various reasons I simply was not able to repeat that effort for my next three books, but since social media enabled me to bypass the review mafia and the prejudice in shops, my sales have been much better. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

4/5 ... .@readthebooks22 . I was able, that autumn, to promote the book regularly in my then newspaper, and sold thousands, in the end, directly from the warehouse, so tapping the demand which bookshops refused to exploit. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/4 ... .@readthebooks22 ...who actually sympathised with the book and used all his resources of display and and promotion to sell it, selling hundreds where comparable shops sold in twos or threes.... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 .@readthebooks22 ...I and my family found that we, rather than the publisher, had to get it into bookshops, and did so. The responses were most instructive. But mos educational of all was the lone bookshop manager in a medium-sized town... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/3 .@readthebooks22 How would I know? This is I think my eighth book. I learned most of what I know when I eventually found a publisher for my first , 'The Abolition of Britain' in 1999. I struggled to get an agent and a publisher. When at last it was published... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@andy_dundon Of course it's a soundbite, this is Twitter.If you want the full argument,read the book. Political equality is the same as social equality,a mirage pursued by utopians.Odd that they destroyed good schools for the poor,but did not touch mediocre schools for the rich. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@andersinvienna Perhaps, but , as I am pretty sure I have explained to you before, the 11+ is not the only way to select, and I myself prefer the German system of assessment. Nor is the only age for selection 11. I think 13 would be better. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @JSRafaelism: @ClarkeMicah @holland_tom This mixture of cattiness and self-pity is just exquisite ^^^ https://t.co/6WZ1Y23Iru — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No. I have not sent anyone a signed copy .@herrziegler . Not even @michaelrosenyes . Though he is in one of the appendices, in which I try to list the adornments of our culture, sciences etc who attended state grammar schools in their heyday. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

[email protected] would not knowingly read anything by John Sweeney, a man who tells lies about me on the internet. An intelligently critical book about Putin by someone who actually knows and understands the subject and has knowledge of Russia is 'Strongman' by Angus Roxburgh. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@AlexanderAgha The classic brief work on Leninist practice is Lenin's own 'The State and Revolution' & the best introduction to Bolshevik amoralism is Trotsky's pamphlet 'Their Morals and Ours'. But not knowing what your interpretation is,I am not sure what I am countering. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@alexanderagha . *A* book ? I do not think so. There is no single work in which these things are set out. It came from practical experience during seven or so years as an active IS member, discussion and reading. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, .@rednorthuk, you are mistaken. I seldom write for The Guardian these days : https://t.co/Gl3U6tU0Tb — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@wierdohairdo That is Stella Creasy MP. She once 'invited' me to her Walthamstow Constituency, apparently in the belief that had never visited such places. I took her up on it. It wasn't a meeting of minds. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Read the link @frejbabes (no, you didn't bother) — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@MichaelCooper09 Exactly. People hesitate to ask staff to help them find a book, because they then feel committed to buying it. People prefer books to be *findable* so they can browse before deciding. All the anti-God books were easily findable, and usually displayed. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@CheekyMark1917 In some cases, yes, but those papers which have been commercially successful and therefore independent have tended to resist the cultural revolution. Also, journalism remains a trade, and so is not totally dominated by graduates. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you @avidpat — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@AndrewB45294961 Anybody can try this experiment on any major controversial subject. And it's not just what they *stock* (they may have a couple of dissident books on a shelf somewhere in the theology dept).It's what they display on the front tables. And what they don't. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Extracts from my book 'A Revolution Betrayed' now published by Bloomsbury : How utopians sabotaged grammar schools https://t.co/MwzbjfkdUB via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Enoch was paddling in sewage, and he knew it https://t.co/xOLJh8CQjI via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, .@keith_bloke. Powell was a careerist mountebank who made a rational discussion of migration impossible for many decades. See : https://t.co/xOLJh8Ciua — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Pleased to hear it , .@markedwardsgb . Hope it lives up to expectations. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@AlexJBebbington Of course all these takeovers work much more smoothly if people are unaware of them. Thus we see the comical belief of millions that when they walk into a bookshop they see an impartial display of impartially-published works... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@AlexJBebbington Because, like broadcasting ,the academy, the legal profession and the police, the book publishing and bookselling industries have been successfully targeted by the Long March through the Institutions which began in the 1960s. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Some interesting if imperfect parallels here: 'Russia realists are the new lockdown sceptics' . @UnHerd https://t.co/BlkQDfUlGe — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@frasercroft This is alas true. I love bookshops and try very hard to buy from them rather than online. But they do not love me back. Most people will find it much easier and quicker to get the book from online sellers or direct from Bloomsbury. — PolitiTweet.org