Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I think I have now cured myself of watching #UniversityChallenge. It's been several weeks now. Time and again, my hopes were disappointed. Questions either impossible, wildly obscure, too easy or propagandist. Can't believe any team attempts it now without intensive training. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Quite so, @maikzone and not as bad as some other desperate Soviet methods of obtaining alcohol, such as sucking aftershave through cotton waste. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @studleytweet: @ClarkeMicah @janinethechef1 And luckily still going in Chippy! Their hot roast pork roll is always a winner... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @janinethechef1 . Interestingly Nash's still maintain a branch out on the edge of Oxford, in working-class Blackbird Leys, where I suspect sourdough bread,along with polenta and other Blairite fads, is regarded with disfavour. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 @janinethechef1 The bakery, Nash's is still very much alive, and has a lovely old-fashioned cafe in Bicester where, the last time I visited, you could still get proper toasted teacakes. But its shop in the Oxford Covered Market has closed.... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Ah, @theophilusoak, I thought it meant that the stars had vanished, as in the 'disastrous sky' mentioned by Lewis in his description of the dying city of Charn, in 'The Magician's Nephew'. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Most kind @pattif21 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

On purpose, @ladygreenkirtle — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I do so agree, .@OlCunner, but of course deferred gratification, inevitably, is something you enjoy later rather than at the time. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'Our traditional bakery uses locally grown & milled flour to produce proper white bread,soft and crusty. It has recently closed its shop in our ancient covered market, presumably because everyone now prefers sourdough, or more likely they think they do.' https://t.co/6kEbxRX6UG — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I bought Persian Lavash bread as comfort food after Friday prayers in Tehran, during which I was surrounded by hot-eyed zealots chanting “Death to America!” and, flatteringly, given how much less my small country matters,“Death to England!” : https://t.co/6kEbxSfg8O — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'If you made a sandwich of Soviet toothpaste between two slices of black bread, and left it to ferment for a little time, it would provide an alcoholic kick—valuable in a country where the government had made vodka very hard to get' https://t.co/6kEbxSfg8O — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'At one point during the 1914-18 war, the government actually forbade the sale of fresh bread... The theory was that unfresh bread was easier to cut into thin slices, and was in general less appealing, so it could be eked out for longer.' https://t.co/6kEbxSfg8O — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'If ever there was going to be cake, there was bread and butter first, and you were expected to eat it as part of the relentless training in deferred gratification to which the children of the English middle class were then exposed'. https://t.co/6kEbxSfg8O — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

My latest column for The Lamp Magazine - about bread https://t.co/UaEBSKhn3G — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I never knew that, .@bdrussell78. It is rather pleasing. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you.@Essexnanny — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@1892tyerralred1. They are not ‘superfluous’. They just don’t exist. If a nation can defend its borders, and limit its government with binding laws, * freedom* to do these things can be maintained. But codifying them as ‘rights’ will not protect them from incessant attack. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@janinethechef1. A memoir that was not revelatory would be dull. One that was revelatory would needlessly upset and distress people who don’t deserve it. In any case, I have already described the adventurous bits of my life, such as they are. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes you can @faithybird. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@algernon_sidney. I do@not follow your logic. Please clarify. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@neilros93033708 of course they can, but they can still all be altered, undermined or overturned by Parliament. And now by the ‘Supreme Court’ too. Lesson is to cherish them , vigilantly. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: .@1892tyecrralrednoy. Well, as I have explained, I think ‘human rights’ vague, subjective and internally contradictory, pr… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @kynohy: @ClarkeMicah Thank you for this good article on bread & civilisation. Bread and wine - both require time and the knowledge of… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: The EU *is* the continuation of Germany by other means. I don't see how the statement can be disputed factually by anyone… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @rile22886920: @darrengrimes_ One party holds the other up, and repeat. @ClarkeMicah said it years ago and he’s spot on. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

All of them — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@thefreeferret None of the *Below*. The mass-abstention option should be at the top of the ballot. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

My latest column for The Lamp magazine. https://t.co/6kEbxRX6UG — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Adamjoh04292263 Bother with what? I call for proper research into the drug abuse of *all* violent criminals, in order to establish whether there is a link. And until we have done this, I suggest we take no irreversible steps, such as the legalisation of marijuana. — PolitiTweet.org