Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@neilh9_hawkins I am not *denying* anything. I am not a Russian jingo. I am criticising the Ukrainian jingoes, for their misleading idealised portrayal of that, er, complex nation. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@alexand13449480 you are a bit slow. Ukraine’s problems with Banderites and neo-Nazis matter because Kiev’s supporters portray that country as a vibrant liberal Multi-party democracy, and it isn’t really. It’s quite like Russia. A tattoo is not part of any military uniform. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

This is sort of interesting. What will the ‘war to the bitter end, negotiations are appeasement/ surrender’ Ukrainian patriots, so prevalent in London, say about it @edwardlucas? The USA is always a complicated ally. https://t.co/hUJ3GHsqUp — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@alexand13449480 , if you can’t imagine why anyone should be muted, both your imagination and your experience of life must be very limited., — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@alexand13449480. They don’t exist. You absorb or ignore my replies and then change the subject. As for the question you raise, nobody is claiming that Russia is an advanced liberal democracy. Also none of its army units wear SS insignia. Opposite is true of Ukraine. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Once it is clear that I am wasting my time, I stop bothering..@isaacclay170493 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@suesustainable. I'm not sure that it is a waste. People can learn from engagement, even if it takes them a long time to do so. Also, it is useful for me to deal with people who loathe me and what I think, and to know that they exist, and what they say. You have to try harder. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: 'we have no political party which either listens to us or represents our views.' Quite so. https://t.co/I6IeKfYpMe via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

In this podcast I am interrogated by three vicars. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, @kynohy I just updated it. It seemed harmless — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Alexand13449480 I've just noticed something about you. You pick fights with quite a lot, but, when take the trouble to respond to *you*, you don't respond back. Please tell me why I shouldn't mute you for time-wasting and tedium? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I plan to speak at Balliol College, Oxford tonight at 7.00 PM about the liberal left's strange and changing atttude to foreign wars. https://t.co/Ny7dBykHpC — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

An excellent point. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I have written to .@hertspolice to ask these questions. They have done little to answer the fist, and ignored the second. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@GWard00744517 I don't recall anything of the kind. Yanukovych's simultaneous negotiations with the EU and with Moscow were, as far as I remember, conducted in the hot glare of media attention. Perhaps you could give me details of this secrecy? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@paulmaccio. You refer to a headline (as is normal, not written by me) . What I blamed (and blame) the west for was the creation of the crisis. You might like to read what I wrote : https://t.co/MxBK4tgJ94 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @YorkCycle: The Daily Mail may not be known for being pro-cycling, but part of Peter Hitchens' column Wed. 9 Nov sums up both the challe… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Nothing much .@ryantweets_93 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No. The knowledge that the demonstration was going to happen was publicly available. Both journalists and police might have expected offences would be committed there, but that does not make them party to any crime, or the police would have had to arrest themselves. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@frankiespratt2 I think you meant to send this to somebody else — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

You mean that you disagree with me. I think the decision to expand NATO in the Baltic states has, in the long run, made their position worse, as it has( demonstrably) destabilised a formerly peaceful continent. You may disagree, but it is a legitimate opinion. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@alexand13449480 . I have never claimed to be an expert on Russia. I have never said the Russian army can do no damage. Straw men. Learn to debate honestly, as it will improve your ability to learn. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ChimeWhistle: @ClarkeMicah @Kumaon_Enjoyer 1/Many book buyers don't realise they are subject to 'censorship' in some book shops - manag… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@jibby646 . No doubt, but I have never even *been* to the Balkans and am not Maltese. (The Maltese government’s policy towards children of British servicemen born in Malta in colonial times is - quite reasonably - that they have no rights of citizenship) . So not clever. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@davidfl37102261 . That is after the war has started. In Serbia and Libya, NATO launched violent attacks on states which did not threaten the integrity or independence of any of its members, had not attacked them and had no plans to do so. The sophistry is all yours. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@simon_millig. The alternative was years of bloody ruinous war with an uncertain outcome. It usually is. This is why the childish jibe of ‘appeasement’ is usually of so little value in discussing such matters. People appease all the time. That is my point. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@paulmaccio . What you say here is false. Putin is entirely responsible for his actions. But, as the anti-Russian hawk Robert Kagan says, he was also provoked by Western actions. Are you a stranger to subtlety? Can you not argue without defaming your opponent? Looks like it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @robertchallis: @ClarkeMicah Unless you are just plain dense, you know exactly the point Matthew Buckley is making. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Could be! — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

7.00 PM tonight:, — PolitiTweet.org