Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ScottTy91290223 It's a good rule to take seriously *any* remotely coherent attack on your position, until you're sure it is from an idiot.Your opponent may learn from it, and you may discover a weakness you hadn't previously suspected. Argument's a wonderful means of education — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Quite so — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@it_must_be_jim I had it from Ted, a former Sergeant of Marines, who long ago was the Daily Express messenger at the House of Commons, and knew a thing or two. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@tgriffons. Yet I was present when Soviet troops murdered Lithuanians in Vilnius, and had studied their history,visited them and read Milosz’s ‘Captive Mind’ long before you could even distinguish the Baltic from the Black Sea (a common error among warmongers)So they’d be wrong. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

You think lemmings hurl themselves to their deaths? You’re wrong about that too: Lemmings, NATO, the Russian Threat and the Merchants of Death https://t.co/uQpbkVU17Z — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@doonhamer60. There are some useful dates in this:,Lemmings, NATO, the Russian Threat and the Merchants of Death https://t.co/uQpbkVUyXx — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@doonhamer60 Well anyone with a pulse would expect NATO to be biased in favour of itself. But Soviet( not Russian) troops left theBaltic States in 1991. Somehow or other, they managed to stay out for long years afterwards, despite the absence of NATO. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @doonhamer60 And, as I sent the previous tweet I made a bet with myself that you would now assert that your belief was not a choice, and that your faith in the idea that the universe is a cosmic car crash is the default position of the human mind. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@doonhamer60 I think this is a created universe. It's a blief, and like all beliefs abouyt the unknowable is a choice based on desire. What interests me is why *you* choose to believe that a complex universe came into being by accident and has no purpose. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@profound_meanin. I've seen no confirmed figures for either side. I know many people think Ukraine's army suffers no casualties, just as they think it commits no atrocities. But some observers believe that both Ukraine & Russia have suffered roughly 100,000 military causalties. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @kynohy: @ClarkeMicah @IanTurner And this: https://t.co/NAy6o5jcCh — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Actuallly .@it_must_be_jim It is '*Berkeley* Hunt'. The 'Berk' in 'Berkshre is pronounced to rhyme with 'dark'. That in Berkeley, is pronounced to rhyme with 'lurk'. As is 'Berk' . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @college_kumaran: Proper education is a fundamentally conservative activity, based on the assumption that a body of knowledge exists, is… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @college_kumaran: To believe in God is to desire a universe that has laws and purpose with justice woven into its very fabric. The unbel… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@kynohy. It is, like 'Berk', based on rhyming slang. 'Michael' leads to 'Mickey' which then leads to 'Mickey Bliss' (whoever he was, probably a friend of Ruby Murray). Which in turn rhymes withthe lst word in a well-known but crude phrase or saying. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@doonhamer60 The actual existence of something rather than nothing (a vast universe operating to fne tolerances) is pretty weird & requires a weird explanation. That's why Einstein, though unreligious, was also not an atheist. 🔀https://t.co/XbQF3HuxNZ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

So what, .@M1chaelk? These are Pravy Sektor talking points. The problem is not the *number* of neo-Nazis . It is their readiness to use violence and their disproportionate influence (as in the 2014 putsch,in the armed forces & in the campaighn against Zelensky's peace policy) . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@domidest. Putin is responsible for the invasion, an act of both barbarism and stupidity. He is not responsible for the 25 years of needlessly heightened tension in the region created by NATO expansion . See https://t.co/uQpbkVU17Z — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@davidkennerly?Umbrage? Me? I have been insulted by experts and you are not one of them. I just enjoy taking the Michael out of fanboys such as you. What business is it of yours what opinion I have of a person I knew from childhood and you never even met? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yet .@AlanJen16982104 , when surrenders or appeasement are offered to destructive and bloody persons that the Left approve of, such as Yasser Arafat or Martin McGuinness, we are told piously that peace can only be obtained by talking to our enemies. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Ah, yes, .@Patrick31251491, reparations impoverishing the population - a proven reliable way of ensuring a war of revenge within one or two generations. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ianturner. Atheism *is* strange. The USSR encouraged its citizens to set up 'Little Lenin Corners' in their dismal homes, to try and make up for the abolition of Christianity. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@alexand13449480 . Now you must say goodbye. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@bellibelli1 . What do I care? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@domidest . Something deep inside me revolts at the idea of urging others to fight and suffer, perhaps for years, from far away. Contrast (for example) Finland's longstanding policy of unshowily creating and maintaining serious national defences. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@davidkennerly. Ah, I see, so you *do* have a shrine to my late brother in your bedroom. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@davidadeola. Possibly, but if Putin has tantrums, and they have misled him into barbaric stupidity, should the rest of us imitate him, or prefer calm rationality? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Also .@adeola, I think it an exaggeration to say that Russia is 'almost on its knees'. It still holds a great deal of captured territory. Attack is far more costly than defence, and attack is what Ukraine will have to do to retake this territory. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@davidadeola. I don't recall this rebuff. The original talks began while combat was continuing. Who said what? In any case, are we children, sulking rather than bringing a horrific war to an end? Serious negotitaions require adults. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@HMSIncomparable 'Pressuring Ukraine'??? Ukraine is the battering ram of the USA, in its proxy war against Russia(Leon Panetta, former CIA chief, has averred that it is a proxy war, so don't say this is Kremlin propaganda). It's therefore the USA that needs to be influenced. — PolitiTweet.org