Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Crowds, literal and metaphorical, are often mad @shaun_hutchings . Individual madness is rarer. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I think he took an irrational self-damaging decision @shaun_hutchings, in the full knowledge that it was so. That doesn't mena he smears his excrement on the wall, or thinks he is a poached egg and demands toast to sit on. But the decision was mad. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: My upcoming evening with the Oxford Psychedelic Society https://t.co/HdIu04DqLa — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Alas, and one of many comparable tragedies, @sinclair_horace, but the huge resources of the state and the academy,which ought at least to be interested by the apparent correlation between marijuana use, mental illness and wild,violent crime, make no consistent effort to study it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Gosh, thanks, @Raymond18701746 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

My upcoming evening with the Oxford Psychedelic Society https://t.co/HdIu04DqLa — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @piercepenniless: @isaac_kh @ClarkeMicah The opposite of what Hitchens (and I, tbh) wanted, no? Permanent dislocation of time. Noon is w… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes, stupid decisions are generally taken because of some panic or other. Clock-fiddling, resisted for years (on the basis of facts and reason) by Parliament, was eventually imposed as a ‘war emergency’. @cjsnowdon — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@pollypingwing. Actually we do not have a Presidential system here. The premier’s mandate comes from elected MPs in the House of Commons, who can also remove her, not from direct personal election. The only directly elected head of govt in the UK is the Mayor of London. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Delingpolesques Where and when exactly did I say he would not invade? Give referenced direct quotation. If you can’t, withdraw and apologise. As for troop buildups, after Iraq and WMD everyone is entitled, nay obliged, to question such claims. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Hitchens on nukes, – The Spectatir’s Week in 60 Minutes podcast | Specta... https://t.co/qggEjJKT72 via @YouTube — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you @roddierandom — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@ianturner4. Do you apply this same ultra-simple view of events (in which you pay no attention at all to the circs) to all areas of life? This would make Napoleon III the aggressor in the Franco-Prussian war, for instance. Do you think he really was? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

This remains one of the most perfect tutorials in politics ever delivered. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

This remains one of the most perfect tutorials in politucs ever delivered. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

All wars end . Ten minutes in, here: https://t.co/H5b7y9s9vX — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@henrydbuckley You don't need to apologise for *missing* it (anyone could) but for assuming it did not exist and making no effort to check, which was rude, sloppy and narrow-minded. See the discussion which begins at about ten mins here: https://t.co/H5b7y9rBGp — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I didn't say they shared deputies, but that Svoboda votes went to Lyashko in 2014. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

It can use its diplomatic heft to begin peace talks. Ukraine's government, probably the only body which might now oppose seeking peace, would not get far in opposing such a move. @GaryFlo29335543 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Putin was insane to invade. What was wrong with saying so? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Bilge .@guernseypete. It is a revolting resort to McCarthyite smear tactics to seek to characterise legitimate dissent as support for a foreign power. It's precsiely what Putin does. How then can you claim to disapprove of him? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@alastairromanes And pouring in military equipment, real-time intel, ammunition and (I think we may confidently say ) 'advice', since February has not in any way lengthened or sustained the war? Golly. Cause and effect must have changed a lot since I were a lad. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@alastairromanes. So 30 years of NATO expansion, of arming & equipping Ukraine,of billions spent on 'civil society' orgs, culminating in the violent overthrow of Ukraine's legit government because it woudln't align with the West, neither affected events nor were intended to? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@henrydbuckley — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

They mostly disappeared into Lyashko's party in 2014. Who knows where they are now? Their main object was surely achieved by the putsch. Parliamentary politics isn't really thier forte @bears_beats_b_g — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Ah . I am afraid your knowledge of history, politics and diplomacy so far outstrips mine @GeoffreyOConn11 that you leave me standing. ☠️ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@henrydbuckey. Well, the USA, the principal driver of this crisis, could halt the war in a moment if it wished to. I have several times here and elsewhere outlined a possible compromise, but I can't help it if you didn't notice. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@bears_beats_b_g Banderite formations in Ukraine shift and change . Here's one lot, who were later absorbed in a broader movement https://t.co/uFrX0Jy3hW But their existence remains constant and their influence remains considerable. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@henrydbuckley. No, I am equating the two principal aggressive actions by outside powers.I'm also not including the saintly conduct of Ukrainian forces in the Donbas, 2014-2022. If you don't like atrocities, don't start wars, is my simple rule. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@bears_beats_b_g The EU's independent Tagliavini report describes in detail what happened in Georgia . Saakashvili started a war to try and force NATO to let him in. Are you saying Pravy Sektor weren't involved in the Kiev putsch, btw? — PolitiTweet.org