Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Great news @secmoderns. Secondary mods were in many cases far better than the comps which replaced them . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@teach_gb This (by Jenni Russell who is no ally of mine) is also excellent on the exam inflation you appear to think has not happened: Drilled, not educated https://t.co/ZDeB0yvXZo — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@trach_gb . Perhaps it is you who do not know what you are talking about. The evidence is clear . From 'O' Level to No Level https://t.co/pycz3KvP3t — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@bobborsley. I do not think this excuses you going round misrepresenting other people's opinions. How will freedom survive if people abuse it as you do? And yet you will miss it once it has gone and wonder how it came to an end — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@rosie__mrsk They know that if they can avoid the main subject, they won't actually have to argue properly at all. This sort of evasion results from the bad schooling I would like to remedy, and is one of the many reasons why we are so badly governed. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

What strange (and in my view rather unappealing) opinions you have @groovybrewster. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes, it's needed again. My great rebuttal and refutation of all the daft pro-drug arguments you've ever heard. Stupid Arguments for Drug Legalisation Examined and Refuted: https://t.co/2PAaVio2AQ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Mr Glover ( an Einstein for our age) asks me with amazing originality 'What about alcohol, genius?'. But I am *such* a genius that I actually saw him coming, @Stephen60127189 : See this : https://t.co/2PAaVi5TmI — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

How the Left's 'comprehensive' schools reinforce the privilege of the rich https://t.co/xvJjeESBfU — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

By which you mean what @moonrakerteach? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@bobborsley. I am not on any 'pro-Putin' side. I describe Putin as a sinister tyrant (and have done for years) and have unequivocally condemned his invasion as a brutal, lawless mistake, from the start. Please correct. . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ciaranohallora1 What argument? I emphatically do not defend the effects of keeping a small rump of pseudo-grammar schools in London commuter counties. I argue for restoration of a *national* academically selective system. For the 500th time. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@simongwynn. That's incorrect.The Rada could not provide the required majority to remove Yanukovych under the Ukrainian constitution,and that document's impeachment procedure wasn't followed. Yanukovych was removed by a violent mob- despite later efforts to legitimise the action. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @witty_original: @Matt_ZA @PrimeShade @ClarkeMicah Anyway, Peter Hitchens's whole argument centers on the point that, in our comprehensi… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Atually the 'make marijuana a class 'A' drug' campaign is empty political grandstanding. As long as police won't pursue possession, it matters hardly at all what class it is. AS for being a 'gateway' drug. Marijuana is one of the most dangerous drugs there is, on its own account. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@joon_of. Has anyone surveyed it? If not we're left with anecdotes such as this,known to me, of a teacher who opposes grammar schools on political grounds, yet works in one, 30 miles from his home, because he can teach, and doesn't have to be a police officer & social worker. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No @joon_of, actually there is no evidence of that in the words used. I have many times said, and here say again, that the besieged remnant of grammar schools give no indication of of how a national selective system would operate.Argue with what I say. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Frizelda still pounding away . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Detailed debate on Grammar Schools (if anyone wants it) A New Discussion About School Selection https://t.co/HDJ5VL0R99 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The greatt unaddressed scandal of how the better Comprehensives select by wealth (and feigned faith) : How the Left's 'comprehensive' schools reinforce the privilege of the rich https://t.co/xvJjeESBfU — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @Rosie__MrsK: @ModernCassie @VbBoynt @joon_of @TabitaSurge @ClarkeMicah If there were as many grammar schools as PH thinks there should… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

How the states of East Germany brought back the grammar schools the Communists had destroyed (they, of course, preferred comprehensives, *except* for their own Marxist elite) https://t.co/cCSqMvlSfd via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@caspianmerriwe1. I tend to agree, but I am a pessimist, and the states of the former East Germany successfully restored *their* Grammar Schools after Communism failed. I visited one in Wismar and it was most impressive.See https://t.co/cCSqMvlSfd — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yeah @jimbo79a . The government are terrified of me, That is why they follow my policy prescriptions on every major issue, obvs. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Before Robert Mugabe comprehensivised his currency, Zimbabwe had few multi-millionaires. Afterwards, everyone was a multi-millionaire. Enemies of grammar schools use the same daft argument, saying destroying good schools and tough exams allowed everyone to have ‘qualifications’ https://t.co/owr5LmUyCQ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@joon_of, if you don't think there should be *any* selection then you cannot possibly support comprehensive schools, which select ruthlessly by wealth and privilege. Please see https://t.co/xvJjeESBfU — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@joon_of . Grammar schools ( as I say in my article) have only become part of the selection by wealth issue since most of them were destroyed. The siege of such schools (and of the better comps) by well-off parents results from the *shortage* of them. For the 500th time. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Why would a conservative leader boast about having attended a comprehensive school? https://t.co/ThUUbUg4MS — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@tabitasurge, you speak of our current system, in which the best schools select by parental wealth, the self-styled socialists madly support this grotesque segregation. I prefer selection by merit. Why don’t you? — PolitiTweet.org