Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @baldingwelshman: @ClarkeMicah The loss of grammar schools from here in the Welsh valleys really curtailed social mobility and limited t… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@felchmc Thanks. It was my impression that this was the case. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you . @m1charles1m. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

PETER HITCHENS: How utopians sabotaged grammar schools https://t.co/MwzbjfkdUB via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@megawhelmed. It wouldn’t have been. Well before 2000, middle class parents had begun to realise how bad the bog-standard comps had become, and how expensive private schools are. So they began to besiege grammars. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @m0jomoj0: @ClarkeMicah Have started with the appendix https://t.co/9r9kCqkkLo — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you. There was a bad period from 1956 to abt 1962 when the post-war Baby Bulge overwhelmed the schools( the Tory govt did almost nothing to prepare for this wholly predictable problem) — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Interesting to hear .@richard_weiss. Where and when was that? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

On what do you base this statement, .@booksmiscellany? Ten years after free grammar education was introduced, the Gurney-Dixon report found approx 64% of grammar pupils came from working class homes (see Table J). — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@brandonoffice. On the contrary, during the period of selection by ability, the USA, with its comprehensive high schools, plundered this country for talent . It was called the Brain Drain. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

How peculiar. The left spent decades campaigning for universal secondary education in England, and I don’t think that particular misunderstanding ever occurred. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Published yesterday. https://t.co/zq4NWv9jHv — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@kengibs1 Note how that formulation does * not* assert that he will not do it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@nickrob68233660. Good picture. What’s your point? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @NewCultureForum: "There comes a stage in a man’s life when he puts aside childish beliefs and comes to realise that Peter Hitchens was… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@goutsrossignol? What failure was that? On the contrary, the book deals at length with the left’s false portrayal of Secondary Mods - an attempt to cover up the failure of comps. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@nickrob68233560 Thank you fur confirming that I did not say what at first claimed I had said many times. When Putin *did* invade I immediately said that, yes, he was insane. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

If there are any reviews, @gerausaroya. My last book received two, one from a Knighted Professor who bizarrely accused it of being ‘Eurosceptic’ , a designation I still struggle to make sense of. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

So I am often told. .@helaineolen . But of course it is also the smell of big profits for Big Dope, and Big Taxes for moral-free politicians. So opposition is howled down, and nobody even suspects that the howlers might be paid. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@pjhroberts. Yes, I do know about Finland’s much over-rated schools ( over-rated by the egalitarian OECD). Like all comp systems, they have the usual differences between catchment areas. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

It’s my duty to oppose it, .@inversefox , because it is based on ignorance and free of reason, not because it is fashionable. I cannot *offhand* think of a fashionable belief that coincides with the truth known to the informed and rational, but it is theoretically possible. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@nickrob68233560 Where and when did I say this? Referenced direct quotes, please. I think you must have me mixed up with President Zelensky. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@stevemayman Can you identify the research paper under discussion? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@mojomojo . Hope it comes up to expectation. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

OK .@jimmyhsands. Here I am. What is your point? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@inversefox Despite the twits who accuse me of taking positions to be contrary, my views on the Ukraine crisis,,which I have been expressing since its existence was largely unknown here, follow study and thought. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@inversefox. Why not consider it possible you may be mistaken about Ukraine? That’s all I ask of people on this subject, to avoid an instant emotional engagement and start to consider it rationally, and to investigate its history. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@tdenn20 I am hoping to sign some at Blackwell’s in Oxford soon. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@seowele. Order through Blackwell’s in Oxford +44 1865 792792. — PolitiTweet.org