Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@aylmer51 Those who do business in China, Japan, the USA or Canada don't expect to have everyone elsle's clocks fiddled for their convenience. It's a pretty poor excuse for mucking up millions of mornings. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Speak for yourself .@pikku_prinsinn, as you no doubt do. Burt surely the default position for clocks should be natural time (noon is an objective event) and without a compelling reason (and none has ever been given) they should remain there. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@callumthronelow. I don't agree. When it comes to mass entertainment and sport the post-1960s BBC will spend vast sums on satisfying popular taste. I suspect it is done quite consciously to make up for the narowness of their politics. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Ah, thank you .@chubbychaserlee More than a year, again. Joyous as it is to do these occasional gigs, I am always irritated by the knowledge that I might still be on the panel, had it not bene for that veto. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Some people might like to watch this five-year-old recording of me reading a key passage from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four: https://t.co/31flkOkVUC Some might not. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@jimbo79a I have not appeared on QuestionTime since March 2018. I was last on Any Questions more than a year ago. I can't recall exactly when I was last on the Moral Maze, but when the then editor wanted me on the panel it was vetoed at high level. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

You'll come round, .@peterawatt, especially if the clock fiddlers get their way and you spend the rest of your life eating your breakfast in the dark in winter, and watching Newsnight in broad daylight in summer. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@BobJone95763863 Even Wittgenstein would struggle with this assertion. How can dark mornings 'make more sense' than dark evenings. Both make equal sense. It really depends on whether you are a childless metropolitan BoBo, who never sees the dawn, or a normal human being. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@johnstone32 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes, I was 'X', the one Liz Truss really didn't want to meet again. https://t.co/o4z3xIwNfv via @spectator — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@johnsytone32. It is not just news. It's especially the use of drama to propagandise (we see it today in everything from the Archers to Call the Midwife).'Cathy Come Home' was a great TV play (many thought it was real), but the other side needed to be put in drama of equal power. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

If we stopped putting clocks back, millions would have to go to work & school in the dark. London would be in semi-darkness at 9am on the shortest day of the year, December 21, and the sun would not appear in Carlisle on that day until 9.34am. https://t.co/ZSZroGli4D — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Portugal was told that moving the clocks forward by one hour would create jobs, reduce road deaths and encourage participation in sport. But the opposite proved to be the case and the government had to heed public opinion and return to GMT. https://t.co/ZSZroGDriL — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

What actually happened when a country better suited to the Greenwich meridian switched to Berlin time: Portugal warns Britain: We switched to Berlin Time and it was a catastrophe https://t.co/ZSZroGDriL via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The clock-fiddling discussion summarised. A debate from 2011 between me and Rebecca Harris MP. Her Bill failed, I'm glad to say https://t.co/BszoSotmrk — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@O68055313 No, but in fact it's not a bad rule — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@framey666 Starmer would, if he could create a majority, legislate for PR and an elected Senate, and so make it impossible for any conservative formation ever to hold power again. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

What are you on about, .@aylmer51? Brussels, like Paris and Madrid, would be far better off using the Greenwich meridian all the year round. But they all use German time instead, purely for political and historical reasons. Franco adopted Berlin time to suck up to Hitler. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Guess who appointed the BBC's most revolutionary director general - why, the Useless Tories, of course. PETER HITCHENS: Why I refuse to celebrate 100 years of the BBC https://t.co/pC5C5ZCADO via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Amazing how few know that the BBC's 1960s director-general, Graham Greene's brother Hugh,, deliberately set out to launch a cultural revolution, https://t.co/pC5C5ZTDFO via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Too many BBC critics think the private sector can do its job. It cannot. What we need is a new public service broadcaster committed to the BBC's original principles. https://t.co/pC5C5ZTDFO via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

PETER HITCHENS: Why the BBC needs to be replaced by a new public service broadcaster whch does not despise and ignore us: https://t.co/pC5C5ZTDFO via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@aylmer51 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Now is Not The Time - clock-fiddling explained. https://t.co/tJIa83mCW7 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@zappingzebra. My source is the distinguished Professor Richard Sakwa, of the University of Kent, and his book ‘Frontline Ukraine’, which I strongly recommend to you. You also are plainly not an expert, or you would know of this work. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@lumetes_mnt The one who is ignorant is you. It must be wilful, as I have so many times posted here the story of the EU-brokered deal for early elections, which the opposition reneged on for fear of the Kiev mob. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No @ barriedarke , I was critical of the BBC before, during and after the 22-year period during which I was allowed on QT. My dissent on the Syria war and the COVID panic put an end to 90% of my BBC appearances. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Look at the figures. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @framey666: @usuaIIyyou @Lumieres_mnt @garry_knight @DIYKitAtony @ClarkeMicah Spoken like someone who is completely unfamiliar with his… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Ah, Charidee, the cleansing salve that washes away all doubt and cancels every problem and misdeed. — PolitiTweet.org