Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@ukurbanite. The word legitimate is a technical one, referring to the fact that Yanukovych became president through a lawful and constitutional process, a fact nobody disputes. It is not an opinion. Ukraine before 2014 was a deeply-divided country politically. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Since it was released on Sunday, 19,000 have watched my Roger Scruton lecture on the death of conservatism (and the annoying bit at the end where @danieljhannan asks me silly liberal questions). You can watch too https://t.co/9IdlremTl4 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

By which of course they really meant 9.00 PM, .@madzgrant .@cjsnowdon. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

My review of Anshel Pfeffer's biography of Benyamin Netanyahu, perhaps soon to be in demand again : https://t.co/si7HrHmWyn — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The whole carrier project has been a colossal and very expensive embarrassment. We need frigates, destroyers, minesweepers and diesel subs. Not superpoower weapons we can't afford and can't use(and which conk out) . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @lowandslow21: @ClarkeMicah It was pretty good, even with the last 30 minutes being nothing but Daniel Hannan sneering at you. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@daverspat. The two are intertwined. Causes of death, as we learned during the Covi Panic, are a matter of some intricacy. A police officer certainly died *after* being roughly handled by protestors at the Capitol. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

A corrective, from a reporter who was present, to the 'Revolution of Dignity' unanimity of so many media about the events of 2014. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@purplefishcakes. I accept your apology with pleasure and forgive you the action. Thank you for showing the courage and having the manners to say sorry. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

You are quite right @daverspat. But there were police officers murdered in Kiev, which makes it the more unpleasant of the two events. @ggatehouse — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

David Roman of the WSJ, a reporter who witnessed the ‘Revolution of Dignity’, here contests the fashionable version of events. These are extracts from his letter to the TLS. https://t.co/kE64ctyyUr — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@ggatehouse David Roman of the WSJ did not see these events from afar. I think his account rather supports my view. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@ggatehouse. David Roman of the WSJ did not see these evenst from afar. I think his account rather suppirts my view. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@bethm724. Of course there are differences. But the similarities are more important. I do not say the events were *identical*. Just that if you didn't like the Washington mob, you can't condone the Kiev mob either. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

A reporter who witnessed the ‘Revolution of Dignity’ contests the fashionable version of events. Extracts from a letter to the TLD by WSJ correspondent David Roman https://t.co/58eODbM1oh — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I meant to type 'elected' of course .@ggatehouse. Yanukovych was of course illegally ejected. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

18,000 have now watched this video of my Roger Scruton lecture, since it was released on Sunday https://t.co/9Idlremlvw — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@mrtonydrury . How? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I think Cuba has been milked dry . @mrtonydrury. Fact is, neither side wanted war. So it didn’t happen . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@sajeraj I was entirely prepared to discuss drug courts, as you will see if you watch the encounter. And to widen the discussion when Mr Perry became abusive on that subject. And of course I looked Mr Perry up before meeting him. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ggatehouse. Mob? Check. Armed? Check. Neo-Nazis and white supremacists in mob? Check. Aim of mob to overthrow legitimately ejected govt? Check .Guns? Check. Police murdered? Check . That’s quite a lot of similarities. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ggatehouse. Do please enumerate the differences. Apart from the fact that the Kiev mob succeeded, and the Washington DC mob failed. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@.@africanconcrete — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ggatehouse? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

They are, .@newwestrealist — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Those on the Right should enjoy it too @miss_snuffy — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@simontpetherick. But yes, the UK and the USA have both learned to conceal the face of war, and lie for effectively since those days, rather than learn what they should have learned, that wars of choice are generally evil and stupid. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@simontpetherick. I think Nixon and Kissinger (and McNamara) come out of it worse than LBJ. Hastings changed my mind about the South Vietnamese Army. And he never lets us forget how horrible the Hanoi state was. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@normanelliotuk. It grieves me to have to break it to you, but the Bond films are fictional. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@ggatehouse. When the crowd stormed the Capitol were you, like me, reminded of another mob that sought to overthrow the result of a legitimate election, in Kiev in February 2014? I condemn both these mobs. I notice that quite a lot of people condemn only one of them. — PolitiTweet.org