Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Frizelda straining every sinew. She has a quota point to meet. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

4/3 @GaryJon69378372 I have little in common with American 'conservatism' which is non-monarchist, not very British and non-Anglican. A lot of my positions are more or less incomprehensible to many on the American right. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/3 @GaryJon69378372 Add to that several decades on Fleet Street, much time spent living and working abroad in highly dramatic circs, and I have experience and education which most will never get. I try to communicate it. Not always successfully. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 @GaryJon69378372 I was brought up and educated in a pre-1965 world. I utterly rejected what I had been taught and became a revolutionary. In my later rejection of that position I came to see much virtue in my original education and upbringing. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/3 @GaryJon69378372 I think my opinions are actually horrifying to most people brought up since the cultural revolution. They think I am not just wrong but bad. Very few people have lived the sort of life I have experienced, and I don't expect agreement. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Frizelda is back again. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@rosie__mrsk Though also note the word 'his'. He did it. The question is surely not whether to show compassion or not, as we all must do so but how compassion is best expressed in practice. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Not very much @rosie__mrsk . As I recall he was keen on wars of intervention . Pleasant to meet, personally brave, but undistinguished. I thought Charlie Kennedy, tragically destroyed by his drinking, was the better leader, especially on the Iraq issue. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @HateSeventh: @ClarkeMicah Well I can’t afford a house there so you’re probably right. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@diykitatony. No doubt some people dispute that there was provocation. But Kagan's acceptance of it is telling because he is part of the faction which might normally say there was none. In any case, it makes it hard to state as a fact that there was none. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@diykitatony. Provide evidence for this assertion. Here is substantial evidence against it https://t.co/uQpbkVUyXx Where have I said I believe Russia should be an empire? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@Alexand13449480 Those countries were for several years not members of NATO and nothing happened to them. See https://t.co/uQpbkWbBZx I'd need to write an essay to deal with your second question. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

That's a very unpleasant thing to say. @Raymond18701746 . I think you should withdraw it and delete the tweet. Political disagreement is one thing. Violent fantasies are another. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @janinethechef1. Later in the campaign I was waiting outside a building in which he had been speaking. To avoid being questioned by me in front of TV cameras, he sent Anji Hunter out to offer me an interview. I fell for it. He ended the 'interview' after about 45 seconds. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 @janinethechef The remark came after he had finally (out of embarrassment) taken my question. He then avoided the question. I pressed him. It was then that he told me to sit down. I seem to recall standing for a bit but there was no point in going further. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Oh, give it up @hateseventh. No area of any British town is *exclusively* anything. There are enclaves and exclaves and sharp contrasts just across the tracks, etc etc. But Roundhay is a comfortable suburb. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

At 40 minutes into this October 2013 'Question Time' https://t.co/uoRbdcDq9f see Elizabeth Truss saying that 'The comprehensive I went to went to was an average comprehensive in Leeds'. If you listen very carefully you can hear me scoff 'In Roundhay?' — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No @geraldinbelfast, they didn't ban me,though they did try to keep me out of their 1997 campaign launch, and Blair pointedly ignored my questions at press conferences, eventually telling me to 'sit down and stop being bad'. This was when he was universally admired, except by me. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @lucasw07: @high_tories @MatthewStadlen What Peter Hitchens has been advocating. It will take several electoral wipeouts of the tories t… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @kynohy: @KeithNHumphreys I am not shocked because I have been reading Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah, especially his book 'The War We Nev… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

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

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No doubt @tymdyn . I didn't say ti was *exclusively* middle class. The process by which some schools become increasingly socially selective is explained here https://t.co/xvJjeESBfU — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@hopefield3 Surely recent events in Ukraine show that Russia *is* a paper tiger? I find it increasingly hard to cope with people who simultaneously point at Russia's pathetic military performance and claim it is a huge danger to its neighbours. One or the other. Not both. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

At 40 minutes into this October 2013 'Question Time' https://t.co/L7xHOMVdlP see Elizabeth Truss saying that 'The comprehensive I went to went to was an average comprehensive in Leeds'. If you listen very carefully you can hear me scoff 'In Roundhay?' — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

In what way ‘taken in’ @Simon_wookey? In this case, as usual, I asked the person to provide information to back up what he was saying. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ethan_odin That has not been true for many years, especially since NATO bombed Serbia, even more since NATO bombed Libya.The NATO deployment in Afghanistan was also a major departure from its original purpose and nature. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ethan_odin Because the continued existence of NATO l, and even more its expansion, made war in Europe (where Britain is) more likely. QED. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @HaroldE01064355: @BadBalticTakes @ClarkeMicah Can we agree that Peter Hitchens is one of the most despicable people on earth? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @GarryMaddocks1: https://t.co/StS4MZ02ea Piers Morgan a man without shame. Any right thinking person knew what the mammoth cost of lockd… — PolitiTweet.org