Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@neodarwinist 2/2 Car users are much more likely to be held up because many major roads are also car parks,where motor vehicles depreciate in the rain all day.Or because of bus lanes, a cheapo and failed attempt to make up for the mad destruction of electric trams 60 years ago. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@neodarwinist 1/2 I suspect you have not ridden a bike since childhood. Pavements are strewn with litter and broken glass, undulate thanks to dropped kerbs and expose those riding on them to motorists reversing out of gateways. They also lose the right of way at intersections. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@shaunhutchings . AS the article shows, the poor are viciously kept down by a 'comprehensive' school system which is rotten with secret privilege, mainly understood and used by rich leftists. Private schools are marginal in Germany, which still has state grammar schools. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ecogreentoday Oxford will find that, unless it *begins* by providing first rate public transport and Netherlands-style cycle facilities (and it is doing neither) such measures are deeply resented and unpopular. Drivers need to be *persuaded* out of their cars, not bludgeoned. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@davidfl37102661 As far as I know, nobody ever asked their populations, but the countries you mention managed perfectly well for years outside NATO. For actual *facts* on NATO expansion, see: https://t.co/uQpbkVUyXx — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Cycle helmets for everyone will put more lives at risk  https://t.co/S6zHRNcB12 via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@MrEddieSimpson The amount of daylight cannot be altered. If we are going to disrupt the lives of millions, you need a better justification than a one-hour postponement of the arrival of evening in the winter. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@tdenn20. This option, always a painful stretch for many parents who chose to do it, has in recent years become an even bigger burden. University discrimination against those who save and strive is not likely to benefit the country. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Forty thousand have now watched my Roger Scruton lecture since it was first released on YouTube almost a week ago. You might want to do so too. Here it is: https://t.co/vdlC0EiryY — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@tombobc . You seem to have 'addiction', a questionable and objectively unproven attribution of cause, mixed up with Delirium Tremens, an objectively observable consequence of long-term alcohol abuse first described in 1813. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@steph_a57 If by 'patch' you mean 'not have', then I can absolutely assure you that they do. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@JonathanOX1 I ride in London as well as in Oxford. Oxford drivers are more used to cyclists than most, but I still sometimes encounter bad behaviour by drivers there. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Smeeghee It might be, but I struggle to see the parallels. What are they? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Why is it 'nonsense' .@steph_a57? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @TailedFeature: @ClarkeMicah My favourite video. https://t.co/zD49fVWSmK — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The left, while they rail against supposed private school privilege, are doing all that they can, by professing strong religious faith or moving into costly catchment areas, or by hiring tutors, to put their own children on the magic carpet to Oxbridge https://t.co/RedZud5chM — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Discriminating against private school pupils treats the suburban middle class as if they were privileged billionaire aristocrats rather than men and women who work and save, and put schooling before big houses, holidays and expensive cars and clothes.https://t.co/RedZucN33E — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@smtm_lfc1975 But I specifically do *not* make any such suggestion. Try again. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

One driver in three said they felt too much cash had been spent improving infrastructure for cyclists. This is plainly a mad attitude. If you don’t spend money on cycle paths, then there won’t be any cycle paths for us annoying cyclists to ride on. https://t.co/TkcgUV5FHm — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'The Government has for 60 years built cities round the needs of cars. It doesn’t work, because all these motorways and bypasses have increased the number of cars and will always do so. We'll never catch up with the demand our policies have created. https://t.co/TkcgUV5FHm — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

PETER HITCHENS: Every time I set out on my bike I prepare for war https://t.co/TkcgUV5FHm via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

PETER HITCHENS: Oxbridge's war on private schools doesn't help the poor. The left-wing elite are as privileged as anyone ever was. https://t.co/RedZud5chM via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@munnwez Much as I take your point, and I know what you mean, I really don't think Scottish nationalism is as , er, militant as the Ukrainian variety. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: A report of last night’s Ukraine debate: Is now the time to make peace in Ukraine? https://t.co/rZeRqu3Ffd via @spectator — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes,this is the classic ‘ I didn’t see you’ incident . Most dangerous at junctions, where it is wise to make eye contact or just stop. Some drivers ‘ don’t see’ cyclists because they just assume they will not be there. Wishful thinking? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I am so sorry for your loss @kynohy — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@britaingrates. I nowhere say they should have been used. My very simple point is that there is scant evidence of public support for NATO membership. Please deal with this substantive point. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@scottberryb912 . Swiss referenda are called by the people, not by the govt. quite different. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I have no such obsession, .@britaingrates. I dislike referenda. But you are the one claiming NATO membership has popular support in Eastern Europe, and so I am asking for evidence. What other evidence might there be? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No .@oldcockle , it isn’t . Be as courteous as you like, some drongo in a steel box will still give you a hard time just for existing and if challenged will say ‘But you don’t pay road tax’ .I rather doubt that you do much urban riding . — PolitiTweet.org