Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @TCourtnadge: @ClarkeMicah @mailplus When they printed the £450 BILLION to pay people to stay at home for their safety and not go to wor… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@okdfatger_john. Why is Zelensky’s reasonable doubt about a Russian invasion a ‘non-issue’? Surely it shows that this was a perfectly legitimate scepticism, and others who shared it cannot therefore he slimed, as you seek to smear me, without dishonesty and inconsistency? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@oldfather_john, oh, I don’t think your baseless slander of me is a non-issue. I don’t think people should tell lies about other people. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

How fanatical utopians made Britain less equal ...by sabotaging the grammar schools that were the true pioneers of ‘levelling up’ decades before the phrase even existed https://t.co/aMmNbyQ0it via @mailplus — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I warned there would be a price to pay over The covid panic . Now do you believe me? https://t.co/IqZjTqlX10 via @mailplus — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@peaceisbeing. Oh , Bismarck said: ‘ Never believe anything until it has been officially denied’ . The difficulty here was that the claims of two duplicitous powers cancelled each other out. As I say, scepticism was reasonable and justified, if not actually obligatory. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@peaceisbeing. I don’t think anyone with any sense ever did trust Russian denials. But plenty, including Zelensky didn’t trust the USA either. Hard to decide who to disbelieve more. Reasonable to doubt. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@mfaithfull It is full of paradoxes. I think I’d have to live there for some years to get anywhere near understanding it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @franfabuleuse: Mmmnnn… interesting 👇 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Then I am baffled. @unpg34. Post-1968 Prague was politically repressed but prosperous by Warsaw Pact standards. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Some people seem to think it a grave failing to have doubted US government warnings of a Russian invasion (I mean, they’ve been so reliable in the past, haven’t they?). Well, what about this guy Zelensky? (All quotes from U.K. national newspapers) : https://t.co/z2mF9dMY57 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

You are talking about Prague? .@unpg34 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes .@ned_donovan, Japan , like Switzerland, is a marvel, and proof that wealthy modern societies do not need to be the slovenly, disorderly non-functioning messes they so often are. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/3 .@billneelyreport. These are all separate and discrete events, bearing no important resemblance to the Hitler crisis of 1936-40. I tend to think that citing Hitler in such arguments is evidence of historical ignorance, rather than knowledge. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 .@billneelyreport. Saddam was not *provoked* in 1990. Far from it. Two years before, our FCO was opposing sanctions against him for his undoubted mass murder of Kurds at Halabja, using gas. And US ambassador April Glaspie's conversation with him about Kuwait was jolly odd. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 Goodness .@billneelyreport I wondered what had beocme of you. As acute as ever, I see. I missed this tweet at the time. It is Robert Kagan, husband of noted telephone caller Victoria Nuland and himself a well-known Washington hawk, who says there was provocation. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Gosh, I missed this at the time @mcfaul. Ukraine did nothing that I know of to provoke the invasion. But the *USA* helped overthrow Ukraine's legitimate elected President in 2014, and spent decades goading Russia by expanding NATO (note especially GW Bush at Bucharest). — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@dr__duran. This sounds like an error. I went from Brussels to West Berlin in the early 1980s, and was issued a transit visa (a scrap of paper) on the train at Marienborn by the East German border guard. The through train had a rather good East German dining car. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Bb28967338 The other day he kept it going from Paddington to Ealing. I am sure that one day I shall hear a train announcement which lasts all the way from Paddington to Slough. I had thought it had been reduced, but it's back at full power now. See it. Say it. S** it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Quite so .@suejen67. Most of the hororrs of Russia originated in Germany, what with Berlin financing Lenin and the Bolsheviks, and Barbarossa. Individual Russians had (and have) little say in the regime they must live under. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@unph34 When did you visit? My first and most memorable visit was in Spring 1978, almost ten years after the invasion. Went in and out by train, through Paris, Heidelberg, Nuremberg. Very few westerners went there then. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@unpg34 Not so. Mrs Hitchens and I were the only foreigners in the Czechoslovak dining cars we used in the late 1970s. The post-1968 regime bought off its middle class with higher living standards in return for political quiescence. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ajyoungman. Haven't come across a diner on that route. But there *used* to be a great diner on the wonderful double-decker sleeper that ran from DC to Chicago via Harper's Ferry and the Potomac and Shenandoah Valleys. Last time I tried, it was a poor shadow of its former self. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@BIforPeace Last time I tried it, I was unimpressed, an unappealing menu and very limited wines in a bleak, cramped compartment. Staff did their absolute best, but it wasn't much fun. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@mrbiswaz. Maybe so. But it does not always work out well. Was impressed a few years ago on Amtrak train from NY to DC, the conductor marching through the quiet car before departure saying that this was indeed the quiet car and if you wanted to use the phone - move now. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

That's another thing .@JamesJo10462188 , the train companies won't enforce their quiet carriages, where they bother to provide them. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes, .@Brucescribbler global capitalism has been a far greater leveller than Communism, which at least provided comfortable first-class train compartments and spacious soft class sleepers on its trains - and , on Czechoslovak railways at least - rather good dining cars — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@divinebiba. Surely bubble and squeak is a home-cooked dish, a brilliant transformation of left-overs (it features in 'the Wind in the Willows') , like bread and dripping. Restaurants can't do it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Deiniolenman Indeed. We have to seek what they used to call 'inner emigration' in the old Communist empire. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@artbookreviews In the late 1960s, you could eat a superb breakfast on the Cathedrals Express between Oxford and London (for less than £1), and despite recent expenditure in the billions, the journey is much the same length now. — PolitiTweet.org