Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@jibby646, Yes, I can easily see why. Sorry to disappoint. But I prefer North Korean soaps. They have more depth. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/2 I deplore it when people use my late brother's memory as a way to attack me. I really do not think Matthew Perry should have done that . It's a teenager's weapon, not an adult's one. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 I suppose Matthew Perry, used to sycophants, was shocked to be challenged. I suspect this is why, nine years later, he deems my failure to suck up to him so important that it merits a place in his life story. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 I had never heard of Matthew Perry when I was invited by Newsnight to debate the subject of drug courts with him. When I got to the studio, I found he had an entourage, as if he was Henry Kissinger. No wonder he was unused to people disagreeing with him. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: 2/2 For those who like that sort of thing, my encounter with actor Matthew Perry on BBC Newsnight nine long years ago. htt… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

What can one say about Matthew Hancock, the tinpot Covid tyrant, now signed up for 'I'm a Celebrity'? How can people be simultaneously ridiculous and sinister? Yet they are. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Matthew Perry, an actor, who thinks debate consists of calling your opponent names, now calls me a ‘complete tool’ as he resurrects his bizarre 2013 clash with me on Newsnight. Fine by me. https://t.co/qT2HKNrslr — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 For those who like that sort of thing, my encounter with actor Matthew Perry on BBC Newsnight nine long years ago. https://t.co/8sDRm1ci9Q . Mr Perry is still sore about it. No wonder. 'Allergy of the body', indeed. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 Matthew Perry, an actor, is *still* licking his wounds after his weird 'it's an allergy of the body' claim made him look ridiculous nine years ago: https://t.co/yUUGdnry03 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@28dazza. France is a fiercely independent country( I wish we took the same line) and will do what *it* wants to on its own territory.If we can persuade France to halt the crossings, France will do it and they will cease. If not,the people smugglers will continue as they do now. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @rcolvile This may help you https://t.co/SrNfF4zsz5 as may this https://t.co/tJIa83m56z — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 @rcolvile. But I don't. That;'s why I didn't say we did.We have had clock-fiddling since WW1 (no daylight is saved) because wars give opportunities to fanatics who want to push people around. We may *keep* it because think tanks support it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

When the Guardian was still the Guardian, rather than The Warmongers' Gazette. It takes a *lot* of effort and money to organise a 'Spontaneous' Street Movement': Ian Traynor: US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev https://t.co/66DGlF4c9I — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@geordieonline It's quite astonishing that such people should have sat down together. I disagreed with much that John McCain said and thought, but he was a man of courage and honour. The whole Ukraine crisis has, alas, caused many people to lose their sense of proportion. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@paulafr68963440 Silly comparison. France now, in effect, has a land-border with us (just as continental Europe, since the crazy overthrow of Gadaffi, has a land-border with Africa). Without maximum French help, we can't control Channel migration. With it, we can.Choose. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yeah .@rcolville, it's really strange how super-rich hedgies and Big Tobacco etc, spend so much money on think tanks, isn't it? Why on earth would they do that, when they have so little impact? ☠️ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@cjsnowdon. I see no gloating, not least because I do not think I have won a victory. The glinting busybodies are still hard at work, sure that millions will never grasp the connection between permanent Berlin Time and their permanently reduced quality of life. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@jprnyct , All kinds of people, from academic intellectuals to doggie trolls, repeat the assertion that Yanukovych ran away, as if that ends any consideration of whether he was lawfully removed. All of them would have run for their lives under the same circumstances. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@chimewhistle It's a separate issue. What goes on now is that the better schools are almost wholly reserved for the well-off. The problem of pupils whose parents needed them to go and earn a wage was not the same thing. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No doubt all the people described here say they are against the cruel process of selection by ability. Selection by money, and elbow-power is, by contrast, fine: How the middle classes are gaming the school system https://t.co/wcwDWcNRIR — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @AnnaTheWise1: It's a terrific speech because Peter articulates so beautifully his views on the political landscape which are shared by… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@gribblethgreat. I had no idea this fascinating letter about the Kiev putsch of 2014 was now available in full. Thank you for posting it. Everyone should read it. Most won't. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Transcript of my Roger Scruton Lecture, delivered at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford on Monday 24th October https://t.co/jUz1auJSHM — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Youtube video of my Roger Scruton Lecture (the introduction by Noel Malcolm contains a startling revelation) . More than 9,000 have watched this since it was released on Sunday. https://t.co/2aJkviTwMl — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

True .@aeraus. There is no fortress more impregnable than a closed mind . But millions have never had the chance to believe it, as they have never been offered the information in the first place. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Ukraine - A Warning to the Furious' (written in May 2014): 'I must just hope that people on both sides keep hold of their reason and their sense of proportion' : 'https://t.co/CJZUpfYilL — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Now it starts to come out - Kiev's 2014 'revolution' was achieved by 'heavily-armed thugs', many of them 'neo-Nazi' . An interesting first-hand account. https://t.co/EmzLO2O3Hz — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Some Thoughts Occasioned by a recent visit to Saffron Walden https://t.co/Ws3076qvUt — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

This from .@clemmowjoe is perhaps the funniest tweet I have seen so far this year. Makes Pollyanna look like a hard-bitten cynic. — PolitiTweet.org