Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@ajoyfuldistance It is very kind of you to say so. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@hygge_lee. Alas, millions in this country have been brought up without any understanding of religious faith especially Christian faith. Many schools treat it as an anthropological peculiarity. So, sad to say, the statement is probably true. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you @syboat — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@Macj007C I do not recall expressing or advocating worship of the monarch. Rather the reverse. I have over the years made several criticisms of the late Queen. I worship only God. Perhaps you could quote the things I have said which suggest otherwise. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Why is it 'trash', @dykesy1? The change is a matter of undisputed fact, and plainly significant. Why is it 'cheap' or a 'low kick'? The relationship between authority and the public is a matter of vital importance. Majorities are often wrong. The police aren't above criticism. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@dykesy1 I do not have an 'anti-police stance'. I am hugely in favour of this country having effective, popular police. But I do not think the organisations now appropriating the honoured title of 'police' are anything of the kind. Calling me rude names does not alter this. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@neill_king. Oddly enough, it is so. I doubt there has ever been a civilisation which has tried harder to hide from death, and to live as if it does not exist. I think this attitude had a lot to do with depth of panic over Covid. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @dlhobbins03. In a free society we have to grasp that we are not all alike. As long as our desires do not harm others or outrage the moral law, we expect tolerance for our own pursuits and give tolerance to those of others. This simple arrangement makes us better people. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 @dlhobbins03. Well, I tried to explain it in the article (have you read it? if not I can link to it for you).But we are just not all the same. I,for instance, cannot understand the attraction of football or rock concerts. But I recognise that others are greatly drawn to them. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@essoexeter. Sir Max is sneered at by mainstream historians, but achieves what they cannot - narrative power suffused with understanding of the events he describes. His absolute respect for calm courage is an important part of this. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you @pmcalver — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @PMCalver: @ClarkeMicah @EustonPavoni Just finished this up... Would highly recommend it. Written with clarity, with beautiful French… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@wokeworld4 . Most kind, but why do you assume that calling me ‘Eeyorish’ is a criticism? Eeyore is plainly one of the most intelligent and profoundly humorous characters in English literature. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@norniqo. This is very ignorant. I wrote *before the referendum* about my preference for staying in the single market. I did not vote.I have long mistrusted plebiscites.On the morning of the result I did enjoy the discomfiture of the liberal elite for its own sake. That was all. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No @eustonpavoni . I am currently deep into Max Hastings’s book on the Vietnam war. De Gaulle was astonishingly prophetic in 1965 about the outcome. Human folly is extraordinarily powerful, reason frighteningly weak. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, I didn’t — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you @reb1958 , this from ‘Lost Hearts’ one of the superb ghost stories of M.R.James, is a marvellous description of an English September . You might like it. https://t.co/bBVefscU25 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

What an odd conclusion, .@wokeworld4. We have very little idea what motivates the crowds, but I doubt very much that it is principally conservative monarchism. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@dizzidi12. It is startling how hostile some clergy are to traditional services. I think they dislike the tougher, more penitential beliefs they express (and are indifferent to the beauty). — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@MrPants69035458 Also, if you'd witnessed the endless wide-eyed standing ovations given to politicians such as M.Thatcher and A.Blair (as I have), and if you understood our rigged electoral process, you'd be *much* more worried about blind loyalty to 'elected' privilege. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 Jolly good @MrPants69035458 . But I'm not sure in what way my loyalty to constitutional monarchy is 'blind'. My attachment is cool and rational. For instance I am perfectly happy about the removal of both James II and Edward VIII from the throne.... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: 'Why I changed my mind', an interview I gave to Dominic Lawson on BBC Radio 4, about how and why I stopped being a Trotsky… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'Why I changed my mind', an interview I gave to Dominic Lawson on BBC Radio 4, about how and why I stopped being a Trotskyist: https://t.co/EKQiYYpvFv — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Joe22143142 That is not my opinion. The greatest, most powerful and richest humans must all die. As Gray said, 'the paths of glory lead but to the grave'. Kings, tyrants, geniuses, are all at the mercy of death. How then do we respond? Modern man does so by trying to forget it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, it is not, @attackdog14 Listen to the lecture on this subject that I delivered at Keele some years ago, https://t.co/ZTMVocAhyA you will see that the point has *nothing* to do with Nazism. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@greengas62 The 'police' do almost nothing about these things.The main problems faced by most people, theft, vandalism, anti-social behaviour, are pretty much the same as they've always been, only far more common because the 'police' have disappeared, making excuses as they go. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes, @freeman_1001 I thought it was an occasion to take myself unseriously and recount what I might normally conceal - and yet @mpalmond says I don't do what he calls 'self-deprecation' (he means self-depreciation, but it's a lost battle). — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@therealiopc. What I said ( as you know) was that useless, feeble British police had imported the American phrase (it has no meaning in the UK and is not used here) to make themselves and their pathetic failure to enforce the drug laws sound tough and macho. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

It still sands @latistl. As far as I know it prohibits the worship of images , being directed against such false gods as Baal, Ashtaroth, Moloch etc, which the Israelites used to worship when, from time to time, they strayed. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@scarleotti. No, I do not believe that I have. On what basis do you say this? — PolitiTweet.org