Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Well, exactly. .@theophilusoak — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@joseph__place. You mean that you disagree with me. Please feel free to do so, but that does not mean I cannot form rational arguments. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@IsabelO20183051 As you say, we disagree. I think Ukraine a very badly-governed country, and it is hard to find anything good to say about *any* of its post-1991 leaders. But Zelensky, in my view, has repeatedly shown courage. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@rufc2022. Paradox is that Imperial Germany(which forced occupied Belgium on to Berlin time in November 1914, demonstrating its purpose as a political expression of power) then jammed its own clocks forward supposedly to help the war effort. And lost the war. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@karl19782 Say what you like. I have many criticisms of President Zelensky, particularly the way he allowed Oligarchs and ultras to destroy his peace policy. But his bearing since the invasion has been admirable, and his courage evident. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@swedentim Lucky you. Thousands suffer heart problems in the days after the forward clock change, and millions have to endure needless dark mornings while commuting or getting children to school. And for what? No objective evidence exists for any benefits. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@bctallis. Twaddle. I mocked your absurd claim that *the tweets from our Swedish friend* had in some way introduced me for the first time to the horror of war. Sweetie, I already know that war is hell. So do you. We didn't need to go on Twitter to have our hearts broken. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@theophilusoak. Indeed. And do you endorse that Russian policy, or condemn it? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@joseph__place If the major powers had tried harder to implement Minsk-2, many people who are now in their graves would be happy and alive, many who are now refugees would be at home. Likewise, if they had tried harder to bring about peace after the invasion. Talks now, please. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

That is the exact opposite of the truth .@teh_skullz — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@bctallis. I have as it happens praised President Zelensky's bearing and courage, and here do so again. I have without hesitation, equivocation or qualification denounced Putin's invasion of Ukraine as barbaric, lawless and stupid. https://t.co/7LUVAuZJiZ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@bctallis. How silly it is to assume that people can understand nuance. Many years ago I said I thought Putin's foreign policy had some merit, while simultaneously describing his domestic policy as sinister tyranny. https://t.co/7LUVAv0h8x — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@bctallis. I campaign for peace, and the beginning of serious negotiations to that end, and have been doing so for months. It is in my view the only reliable way of getting Russian forces out of Ukraine permanently. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@contrahitch99. I cannot work out how this is a response to my tweet. Please explain. (btw, the quotation you provide would work just as well if you began it with 'The USA' , except that the USA has yet to give up any territory) . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@bctallis. I think you need to have your imagination looked at. I cannot find the sentiments you attribute to me in this tweet, for the simple reason that they are not there. Are you perhaps not familiar with the practice of supporting claims with evidence? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@curtainsilicon Blatant straw man(and subject change by person losing argument). I have not used it to excuse an invasion I condemn. I am stating a fact about Ukraine which should disturb any thoughtful or fair-minded person. Are you such a person, or just a cheap propagandist? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@joseph__place. An interesting assertion. Can you justify it with evidence? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@bctallis. Where did I say that? Please don't make stuff up. It's disreputable and also a great waste of time. (PS, do you really think I was unaware of the horrors of war before your friend spoke of them on twitter? Why do you think I campaign for peace?) — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/3 Defenders of Ukraine's language policy, under which Russian has no official status nationally, might like to tell me why that country cannot follow the good examples of Switzerland and Canada, especially given how many monoglot Russian speakers there are in Ukraine. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 Canada also does a pretty good job with French. The country is bilingual nationally, and French is the official language of Quebec. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/3 I think most people would say that Swiss language law was the most civilised, with the major languages of that country having fficial status at federal level, and also in the Cantons where they are spoken. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@bctallis. Oh, I thought I was trying rather politely to deal with some obtuse but hotsile tweets from a confused and ill-informed person. Is that what you call 'heartbreaking'? You must be easily moved — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

One of my critics, after a long and probably painful struggle, expresses all his intellectual power. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@curtainsilicon Of course Russian is widespread. Millions speak it. The argument is over whether they are being turned into second-class citizens by language laws which refuse official status to their tongue. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 @curtainsilicon. 'Imperfect' is masterly understatement. But aren't you the one who excuses the lawless removal of the democratically-elected Yanukovych, an action which pretty much prevented Ukraine's monoglot Russian speakers from having any influence at all, thereafter? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Not so. Russian-speakers in Ukraine were complaining of petty language rules when I visited Crimea and Donbas in 2012. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Quite — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ideoprax. Incorrect. Correjation is not *necessarily* or invariably an indication of causation, but it sometimes is, and it is the basis of epidemiology. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@freebirdsiars. But not associated with delusional mental illness or wild machete attacks on total strangers. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@jd_is_faith. It would be if so many people did not become mentally ill *after* marijuana use, especially( but by Ah ways) when they start using the drug in school, as in this case. Why even bother to try to deny it? — PolitiTweet.org