Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

A Revolution Betrayed - How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System https://t.co/uCLr3UqEub — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@RoodGridance Where was this? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Kind of you .@simonhallwriter — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you .@intothefuture45 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Dr__Duran You're mixing up the tiny rump of surviving grammars besieged by middle class parents, with a national system where they are evenly spread over the whole country. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Dr__Duran Schools don't need 'facilities' to be good schools (this is a private school thing). — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

You are mistaken .@deannpg85 As I point out very often, you may comment freely on all my articles on the Petr Hitchens blog. I also engage directly with criticism here, as you see. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@MarkhnoBS What was the name of this school? What was the name of the class teacher you mention? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @SDValentine17: @ClarkeMicah Both my parents went to a grammar school in the 50s. Mum's dad was a lorry driver. Dad's father was an ex m… — PolitiTweet.org

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.@Jackluk51996223. I’d be surprised if it was her *teachers* who told her that. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@melissa_benn, yes, the Tories are your friends, not mine. In fact, though Ms Keegan doesn't know or care, there were two fine grammar schools in Knowsley until 1975, one of them founded in 1544 ( see for example https://t.co/OmkNsokp9Q) — PolitiTweet.org

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3/3 .@NeilRos93033708 Taxpayers should pay for high-quality education because the country benefits , by making use of, and not wasting, all its talents, and by keeping the standards of all schools high. That's a basic Fabian socialist position. — PolitiTweet.org

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2/3 @NeilRos93033708 I wouldn't expect a grammar school to cost much more than a Secondary Mod. Why would it necessarily do so? — PolitiTweet.org

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1/3 .@NeilRos93033708 I should imagine both will cost less than our current system of failed 'academy' comprehensives with their vast buildings and the hundreds of special schools which have been created to cope with the failure of the system. — PolitiTweet.org

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Thank you .@Joseph91966930 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@targett_chris It is an excellent and informative site, packed with references to key resources. I should say it is edited from a leftish 'progressive' perspectivve, but its determination to provide orginal documents is laudable. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Signed copies of my new book 'A Revolution Betrayed' may be ordered from Blackwell's in Oxford 01865 792792 https://t.co/FcghpXT1Pk — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

My new book, ' A Revolution Betrayed' about the detsruction of the Grammar Schools, is now published by Bloomsbury. You may order it here: https://t.co/uCLr3UrcjJ https://t.co/XdXU3DgqVO — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

My new book 'A Revolution Betrayed' , on the destructioin of the grammar schools, is now published by Bloomsbury: https://t.co/uCLr3UrcjJ https://t.co/Q7KonNVMWf — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'A Revolution Betrayed' is on Audible (read by me) and as an e-book .@marybenton111 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @JbeagleyJohn: @ClarkeMicah I passed the 11 plus from a working class family who encouraged me and I went to a Grammar school. From ther… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @KenGoodwinITV: @Booksmiscellany @ClarkeMicah @Spackymartin @BobHarrisonEdu The only book I had (at home) was a 1950s edition of 'The Bo… — PolitiTweet.org

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.@stevemayman. We have seen where this leads, especially in Soviet Psychiatry and its barbaric use against dissent in the 1980s. Interesting that the modern cultural left have learned nothing from, and perhaps are unaware of this grisly experience. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ThatJohnJones: @PankhurstEM @eilidhfife Police service in England & Wales needs wholesale reform. I appreciate the source of the idea m… — PolitiTweet.org

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.@hawk505steve . ‘Restrictive and elaborative codes’? Maybe. But until the 1970s, nobody was in much doubt where the borders lay. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@trevormfisher comps cannot perform as well as grammars, as their inventor, Graham Savage, admitted from the start. They were always an egalitarian political project with educational disadvantages. But no-one knew *how* bad they would be. Now we do, yet they are not scrapped. — PolitiTweet.org

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Quite so .@ianturner4 . A lot of the book is about the uselessness of the Tories when the grammar schools needed a defender. But Crosland’s spite is still extraordinary. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @newscience161: @ClarkeMicah @MailOnline Oh. "Labour politician Anthony Crosland, who made the original mistake, boasted crudely about… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Bazzaaa_ji: @ClarkeMicah @richard_weiss My grammar school was like that too. In Tooting in 1970s. Many working class kids (like me) did… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CoatedRusset: @Richard_Weiss62 @ClarkeMicah @richard_weiss I taught there! Still help out with their CCF. A great school with a proud… — PolitiTweet.org