Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@janinethechef1. Thank you, but in fact it is a sort of return to the position before the Covid frenzy. Also, more of these things can now be watched on the web. My access to BBC airwaves is,I think, permanently reduced, though not wholly blocked. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I generally ignore this unfortunate pseudonymous person, and his sad obsession with me. But I think this just goes too far.If he thinks this is civilised discourse, he is mistaken. If he has any shame he should now just go away altogether.If not, he should also go away altogether — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

A recording of my discussion on the grammar schools and their destruction, in Cambridge on Tuesday https://t.co/D1iQmCPnFu — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Indeed — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: At 7.00 PM tomorrow, I plan to speak at Balliol College, Oxford, on 'War and the liberal Left'. https://t.co/Ny7dByCQDK — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@curtainsilicon. Because most people regard Hitler’s tyranny as significantly worse than Stalin’s. And because in *most* cases, the ‘liberated’ countries had gone from independence to being invaded or otherwise taken over by Germany. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@curtainsilicon, It is .@ibnkhaldune, not I, who has made this claim . So I am not sure why you direct this tweet to me. Ukraine's political system isn't, even so, very good. As for its probing press, being more probing than most UK media, esp on Ukraine, isn't very hard. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@trygerspud Stalin had been thoroughly appeased at Yalta. The USSR pretty much kept within those lines, and the West did nothing about Moscow's various repressions invasions etc, as accepted in 1945 by FDR and WSC. The appeasement nobody dares call appeasement. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@tory_anonymous The only country that has ever *used* nuclear weapons in war had a sane and accountabe leader. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@johnlatkins NATO expansion *long* predates these events and helped to bring them about (btw Georgia started its war with Russia, and the 'West' supported Al Qaeda in Syria). Here is some history which might benefit you: https://t.co/uQpbkVUyXx — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@johnlatkins. Actually, this varies. Ukraine,not being especially free, democratic or law-governed, has simply become worse during the war. Britain in wartime tried to maintain many aspects of freedom.But Salazar's state was not at war and not free;No serious person says it was. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @casadEGAS: @johnlatkins @IbnKhaldune @ClarkeMicah @aggarwalatbar Which is not the question in discussion. The critic is about the asser… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@johnlatkins. Perhaps, perhaps not. But they *are* relevant to your initial claim, which you have not yet admitted was mistaken, that NATO requires its members to be democratic and free. No such requirement has ever existed. If it did, Turkey would be out on its ear right now. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@johnlatkins. If 'security is the first priority', then spending 30 years deliebrately infuriating Russia strikes me as a weird way of pursuing it. Even US superhawk Robert Kagan admits expansion was provocative. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@johnlatkins Factually wrong yet again.NATO ceased to be a defensive alliance when it bombed first Serbia and then Libya (neither had attacked a NATO member). Do try to keep up with events, and *learn* from discovering (as you have) that your beliefs are based on mistakes. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@grieve51i66 , quite so. Who knows where we may be even tomorrow? I don't like to presume. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

More than 9,000 have now watched the first proper adversarial debate on the Ukraie war to take place in this country . .@MaryDejevsky and I versus .@EdwardLucas and .@svitmore, Svitlana Morenets. Fair and civilised. You may watch it here: https://t.co/IO9U83v5zs — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

53,000 have already watched my Roger Scruton lecture on Youtube. You can do so here https://t.co/vdlC0EAAN6 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

At 7.00 PM tomorrow, I plan to speak at Balliol College, Oxford, on 'War and the liberal Left'. https://t.co/Ny7dByCQDK — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Quite so. .@casadEGAS How could we forget the Colonels? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Geography. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Well , .@pjmuk_mk maybe so, but there's been a peep out of me. Try addressing your complaint to those who have *not* defended Mr Assange. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Profound — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@angusdwyer Please stop trying to be clever. The point remains that NATO has no decomrcay membership condition. And you conveniently ignore Turkey, teetering in the past on the edge of military rule, now imprisoning many more journalists (and govt opponents) than Putin's Russia. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: Whatever happened to NATO? 'As Cold War NATO contained Portugal and Greece when they were far from free, and Turkey after… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Spain joined NATO only in 1982, some years after the death of the dictator Franco. But the NATO memberships of Salazar Portugal and Turkey makes nonsense of the claim that NATO insists that ts members are free countries. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@hertspolice This reporter says you arrested, handcuffed, photographed, DNA-swabbed, and fingerprinted her, and locked her in a cell for five hours. How do you justify this? Will you now erase the photograph, prints and DNA record? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@fredbasset9 Oh, truth is absolute beyond doubt. But not easily discoverable, or popular. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@johnlatkins In fact NATO has never had a democracy requirement. One of its 1949 founding members, Portugal, was then and for many years afterwards a despotism. Then there's Turkey. The EU has grown less fussy about this in recent years, too. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@johnlatkins. Sort of, but when various offers of NATO association were long ago being made to Russia (never membership) it did have some semblance of democracy. Its democrats, notably Yegor Gaidrar, were furiously opposed to NATO expansion. We ignored them. — PolitiTweet.org