Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: Some people may enjoy watching me be interviewed here by three vicars : https://t.co/Bo71hSNz6c — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@clemmojoe. Democracy's a pretty recent invention, but I think it played a major part in the 1914 and 1939 wars, the Korean war and the Vietnam war, and the Iraq War, and I'd hazard a guess that those alone outdid all previous wars in human history in their cruelty and carnage. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Some people may enjoy watching me be interviewed here by three vicars : https://t.co/Bo71hSNz6c — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I should say it was, .@guyrbailey. Do you perhaps think you might do well to withdraw the insinuation contained in your first tweet? Doesn't bother me, as I've generally been insulted six times before breakfast on any given day . But I was thinking of your integrity. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Prophetic and terribly true. Modern governments whip up support for wars, then cannot stop them because their propaganda is too successful. https://t.co/f3DTa5MZtu — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

33,000 have now watched my Roger Scruton lecture since it was relased on Youtube on Sunday. Join them. Here it is. https://t.co/vdlC0EAAN6 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I understand clocks because I once flew backwards across the International Date Line https://t.co/jm6GFo8079 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I don't know .@guyrbailley. I have made no suggestion that Ukraine *should* give up any territory to aggression. Find someone who advocates this, and ask them. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @howtoacademy: TONIGHT: Should Ukraine make peace with Russia? Or must Putin’s invasion be repelled at any cost? The debate begins: @ma… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Mission creep here. The agreed title of the motion , when I accepted the invitation in October, was 'Now is the time to make peace in Ukraine'. The false choice stated in the tweet below is not part of the debate title. Apart from anything else, the invasion *has* been repelled — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Flying backwards across the International Date Line, and other mysteries of clocks and time, my conversation with @Iromg on @talktv this week https://t.co/dzjIUQ3gFm — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The mad reasoning of the clock-fiddlers explained, plus otehr things. My conversaton with @iromg Mike Graham on @TalkTv this week. https://t.co/dzjIUQlpTu — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@curtainsilicon. If Lansdowne (or Wilson) had got the peace talks they sought, millions of dead and wounded would have lived unmaimed, we'd have had no USSR, no Mussolini, no Hitler no Franco. But 'patriotic' warmongers and jingoes wouldn't listen. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@curtainsilicon Both sides were willing to negotiate at the start.Why did they stop? Lord Lansdowne wanted peace talks in early 1917.Austria-Hungary also sought peace. So dd the USA.But demagogues & warmongers continued the slaughter,& brought about the Bolshevik Revolution. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@oggmus. Reliable rule. When someone says to me 'You seem to say..' they usually mean 'You did not say...' but seek to give the gullible the impression that I did. You know what I say. It is easily found. Putin is wholly to blame for his invasion. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'One day, this dangerous fable of the glorious anti-fascist war against evil may destroy us simply because we have a government too vain and inexperienced to restrain itself. That is why it is so important to dispel it.'https://t.co/R3H04YNW7z via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @Oswald1933: @Soroush_1401 @ClarkeMicah @edwardlucas Wrong. Hitchens wrote a book saying amongst other things that Britain was in part r… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@curtainsilicon. It assumes nothing of the kind. It assumes that, as long as there is widespread popular support for continuing the war, especially in the USA and UK, little will be done to end it. See 1914-18. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@stuartdowell_ This must be the purest bilge I have seen in a long time. I hope to heaven you're never on a jury. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@stuartdowell_ There are four people on the panel. Two on each side. You may pay to go, or not. It is a defamatory falsehood to suggest that I condone atrocities, and the precise opposite of the truth to say that I argue for the war to continue. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@stuartdowell_ But he isn’t going to put everything that ever happened to him in it. He’s going to leave out things he believes don’t matter, and leave in things thinks do matter. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@stuartdowell_ you might try to rebut this: The Fantasy of Addiction https://t.co/zjFmcnmasU — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@stuartdowell_ That’s dashed nice of you. But you can’t just *assert* that your opponent is ignorant or she’s not understand the issue. You might as well make farting noises. You have to show it, using fact, reason and quotation. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@stuartdowell_ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@pstni A good point, but how would that affect the time-stamp for the original tweet? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

That’s what interests me. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @prwhittle: I’m delighted that @ClarkeMicah will be talking to me about his new book on @NewCultureForum later this month — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@edwardlucas A total military expulsion of the Russian invaders from Ukrainian soil is of course possible, though far from certain. But at what cost? There will be negotiations. Better now than 100,000 deaths later, in my opinion. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@edwardlucas. 1/2 Well, the invasion *has* been defeated. Yet the war is still not over, soldiers and civilians are still dying, people driven from their homes. Ukraine is in deep economic difficulty and faces a cold, dark winter. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

This is *really* strange . A tweet I posted months ago in a long-forgotten conversation with .@cjsnowdon has now reappeared on my timeline as if I had posted it yesterday. Spooky. — PolitiTweet.org