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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
'A bike helmet is not a device to make cyclists safer. It is a device for making drivers feel safer while driving selfishly. Far too many motorists want cyclists to be wholly responsible for their own safety, so they don’t need to bother taking care'. https://t.co/S6zHRNcB12 — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
2/2 .@driedblackgrape Cycle helmets for everyone will put more lives at risk https://t.co/S6zHRNcB12 via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@driedblackgrape. 1/2 Bicycle 'helmets' are styrofoam bowls which *might* provide protection against a peashooter attack - but whose main effect is make drivers more aggressive because they feel relieved of the responsibility to safeguard vulnerable cyclists. — PolitiTweet.org
The Voice of Raisin @DriedBlackGrape
@ClarkeMicah Nice safety helmet. Oh, you’re not wearing one. Some war…
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@steviecrimbo Most commuter cyclists ride upright at around 10 mph. Head injuries not impossible but unlikely. Main danger comes from drivers who are drunk or drugged. A styrofoam bowl won’t save you from them. — PolitiTweet.org
Stevie Crimbo ☢ @steviecrimbo
@ClarkeMicah @MailOnline Cycled for years. Had plenty of spills. Only injuries been knees, arms and a broken wrist.… https://t.co/6J6ZZXTjUi
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
RT @Rosie__MrsK: @ClarkeMicah @rogercheaton I think there is an analogy in there somewhere! — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@josharm123 More bilge from the dope lobby. Where laws against marijuana possession are *enforced* it’s use is greatly reduced, as shown now in Japan and South Korea. There has been no ‘war on drugs’ in the UK for 50+ years.Laws not enforced. Hence our major drug problems. — PolitiTweet.org
Josh @josharm123
@iantighe @Denbo72 @ClarkeMicah But criminalising it doesn’t stop people from taking it. The war on drugs was lost… https://t.co/8SYmlMrmtt
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
Exactly — PolitiTweet.org
Emmy-Lou @YouKnowYou_Emma
@ClarkeMicah There are so many problems with this. I work in MH the anxiety and psychosis brought in by cannabis us… https://t.co/zrmqcKBUVC
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@rogercheaton. I don't know what you mean. Good safe cycling technique is to assert yourself, signalling clearly,moving decisively into lanes etc. Motorists generally prefer this to feeble diffident wobbling in the gutter. If we gave way to everyone bigger, we might as well walk — PolitiTweet.org
RH @rogercheaton
@ClarkeMicah @suesustainable There’s a good policy of “give way to weight”. It’s a Darwin thing really. As a driver… https://t.co/6iAzGy2aiD
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@jimbo79a. Predictably, ( I predicted it) none of this happens when marijuana is legalised, because the illegal market continues to flourish, untaxed and unregulated and run by criminals. Have you really missed this? I wonder why or how *that* happened. — PolitiTweet.org
James E Shaw @Jimbo79a
@ClarkeMicah I know, such a terrible thing, ensuring it can be legally regulated with health warnings and age restrictions?
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
@penkeymanr. Bike 'helmets' are bowls made out of styrofoam. The fact that yours split does not show that it would have protected you. — PolitiTweet.org
PenkeymanR @PenkeymanR
@ClarkeMicah @MailOnline I have to disagree. When I was riding to uni I was run over by a left turning skip lorry I… https://t.co/Fif2KQQPj9
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
No, .@hitchwithari I don't ignore it. I've criticised these silly show-off measures and do not believe people can be punished out of their cars. — PolitiTweet.org
Ari @HitchwithAri
@ClarkeMicah You completely ignore or fail to take into account the longer commuting times for those driving cars,… https://t.co/7q1XJVOGWW
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
Tripe, .@denbo72. Legalisation has now been widely tried and, as I warned, these claims have turned out to be false. The illegal market continues alongside the legal one, defeating all attempts to regulate strengths etc. Marijuana's harms are irreversible and terrible. — PolitiTweet.org
Dennis Jones @Denbo72
@ClarkeMicah You're missing the point on legalisation. Making it legal will help with giving the consumer access to… https://t.co/pydiypdlNu
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
From today’s MoS . Madness to legalise marijuana -,and create Big Dope - after more than half a century combating Big Tobacco., https://t.co/bQdEedXL9B — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
Egalitarians always make sure *their* privileges survive. Don’t be fooled by claims that quotas make us more equal. The opposite is true.From today’s Mail on Sunday. https://t.co/swfBZPyPcy — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
My Mail on Sunday column today https://t.co/VHmXompJg4 — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@gazcon. This has been either revenue raising or gesture politics.Fundamental transport planning is still based on cars and lorries.If you really wanted to reduce car use, you'd copy cities like Zurich,which have *enticed* drivers out of their cars with superb public transport. — PolitiTweet.org
Gary Conway 🙂 @gazcon
Perhaps for 40 of the last 60 years. For the last 20 years city planners have been openly and proudly hostile to t… https://t.co/gU22sFo51l
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@enduklockdown1. I believe local authorities get grants for so many miles of alleged 'cycle track'. Rather than creating Netherlands-style segregated paths which people actually want to use, they instead paint lines on roads and pavements. — PolitiTweet.org
UK Lockdown Sceptic @EndUKLockdown1
@female_generic @neodarwinist @ClarkeMicah My guess is there was probably no consultation with cyclists and thus th… https://t.co/1jO3uCpW5h
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
PETER HITCHENS: Every time I set out on my bike I prepare for war. It’s time for peace on the roads https://t.co/4cF28UoA99 — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
Egalitarian quotas will not destroy privilege in our universities https://t.co/BfTYjOFOHd — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@scepticalists What generalisations do I use? Also, the argument that we should continue in this crowded country with a car and lorry-based transport policy has no validity at all. It has been a disaster, and will be until it is dropped. — PolitiTweet.org
Hmmmph @scepticalists
@ClarkeMicah @neodarwinist Love the way you both use massive generalisations. Just accept that both arguments can h… https://t.co/ydiR6r9OO6
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@thecynicalbrit2 , then I doubt that you have ridden a bicycle since childhood. It is not about 'stopping at junctions'. If you ride on the pavement, you lose the right of way to cars turning out of side-roads. Think about that. — PolitiTweet.org
The Cynical Brit 2 🇬🇧 🦕 @TheCynicalBrit2
@ClarkeMicah @neodarwinist I completely disagree, the cycle lanes aren’t used because cyclists have to stop at junc… https://t.co/R5rMzZyTSo
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
RT @Bathshebareba: @ClarkeMicah @MailOnline You are so right yet so wrong — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@tinytodger I'd restore state grammar schools, such as they have in Germany, where private education is an insignificant vestige. — PolitiTweet.org
Tiny @Tinytodger20
@ClarkeMicah @ShaunHutchings How would you change it Pete, apart from giving more oxbridge places to privately educated kids?
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@heddoman1 No doubt. But the act of getting behind the wheel of a car also transforms perfectly sane and reasonable human beings into snarling, impatient road warriors. And, as they have the heavier, faster weapons, they are far more of a problem than lycra louts. — PolitiTweet.org
Honeybadgerheddo @Heddoman1
@ClarkeMicah @MailOnline I feel personally, there is a deep narcism complex in alot of cyclists. It gives them a 'G… https://t.co/b2iRo94N97
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
Pyschobabble. — PolitiTweet.org
Ray Owen @RayOwen27617272
@ClarkeMicah @tombobc I think he’s referring to our brains evolutionary addiction to matters dedicated to generic r… https://t.co/RzhNm2G1bU
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@auville. Oxbridge are not looking for ability . If they were they'd have fought to save the state grammar schools which between 1944 and 1965 propelled many state-school pupils into Oxbridge without special concessions. They're trying to meet egalitarian quotas. — PolitiTweet.org
auville @auville101
@ClarkeMicah With respect, you're missing something. I've known parents cram their kids to get them through entranc… https://t.co/hgtm6iDcY8
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
Thank you .@suesustainable. — PolitiTweet.org
Sue Everett @suesustainable
Well said @ClarkeMicah. It shouldn't be like this "The whole of our transport policy is still based on a 1950s beli… https://t.co/Eg2KCimYqz
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
RT @Rosie__MrsK: @ClarkeMicah and my dad himself worked very hard to get a scholorship to Dulwich college and then a major scholarship to a… — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@rosie__mrsk And so have many thousands of others. The idea that fee-charging schools serve only plutocrats is prejudice without knowledge. But in Germany, which still has state grammar schools, private education is a very small sector. — PolitiTweet.org
Rosie K @Rosie__MrsK
@ClarkeMicah I was this family. My father was an NHS Dr (a consultant but even so- he had five daughters). I shared… https://t.co/zfqqvW3JZo
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
.@ballater6 demonstrates bigotry and prejudice. I made no such claim and believe no such thing. Why did she not read what I wrote before attacking it? Does she *prefer* prejudice to knowledge? How can a civilisation function if its people behave in this way? — PolitiTweet.org
Sue @ballater6
Peter Hitchens from the daily fail should realise that just because you’ve been privately educated doesn’t give you… https://t.co/qhxGdp65Nd
