Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@richardking633. I quite agree with you that they would out of place and indeed deeply wrong and discourteous at a funeral. But the events I refer to did not take place at a funeral. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Not a chance .@evolutionplants. You are a cheerleader for bloodshed. I have argued for years against those who seek war. Whatever tripe you emit about me, you cannot say I have helped to cause it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Oh .@evolutionplants, and I know you haven't read that book. That's the easy part of conversing with people like you . All you've read is Harry Potter. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, .@evolutionplants, I will not. You childishly dismissed the idea that this war has historical causation as my 'theory'. You might as well dismiss as a 'theory' the statement that the sea is wet. It's bad enough that you're a cheerleader for bloodshed. But this is too much. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

You said about five minutes ago ' I don't agree with your theory about the deep causes of the war. ' It's not a 'theory', sweetie. It's completely central to understanding. Ukraine has been a point of contention between Russia and its enemies for at least 150 years. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@evolutionplants I am currently reading Max Hastings's history of the Vietnam War, in which you will find that dim, dishonest people can indeed engineer foolish conflicts in which multitudes die for nothing. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@evolutionplants If you are uninterested in the deep causes of the war, which are a matter of historical record, then I have no interest in you or in anything you say. If there's one thing that persuades me I'm dealing with a lightweight ninny, it's a contempt for history. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I don't see how it could have been said in either case. In 1812 and 1941, Russia was the invaded country. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@evolutionplants. Ukraine has no control over its participation in this war. That is between Russia and the USA. My warnings over many years have had, alas, no effect at all. I continue because it would be cowardly and dishonest to stop. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@evolutionplants. In what way do you wish to minimise deaths? This stupid war has been gestating since 2008 at least. I haven't seen you criticising the people who have worked so hard to create it, all that time. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@evolutionplants. It's obvious you haven't listened, because you think the title is representative of the content (and indeed want others to do so). — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@evolutionplants All these things are quite consistent if you study what I actually said.I change my position when the facts change, Putin was a rational actor until February 2022, when I believe he lost his reason. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

So what's the problem? Russia *has* failed in its one attempt at invasion. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Listen to it, @evolutionplants. You obviously haven't. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes, in 2016 Russia could have taken Donbas in a week. The Ukrainian Army was a shambles at that time. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@evolutionplants. You haven't read my 'oeuvre' at all. Your insinuation is bilge. I don't much mind people being *rude* about me. But if they tell untruths about me, as you do here, I tend to pursue them pretty relentlessly. Please either justify or withdraw. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@kevwatson65 The British constitutional monarchy gives the executive power to an elected parliament, while retaining a hereditary head of state who is above politics and symbolises in his person the rule of law and the legitimacy of the govt. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

OK, @evolutionplants, take me through the evidence that I have done anything of the kind. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I don't agree. @19tintanweb. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @JohnDStats: @ClarkeMicah @unherd Well said. Especially when the perpetrators of real crime, the kind that really upsets people, never g… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'Proper British policing always used to consist of calming things down, not escalating them. An arrest is a failure. '  @UnHerd https://t.co/5mR113CwzX — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'I have had great pleasure in arguing against republicans. They have taught me both that I love constitutional monarchy with a deep heartfelt passion, and that there is a rational, factual case for it which is modern, democratic and freedom-loving' https://t.co/5mR113CwzX — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.' J.S.Mill. https://t.co/5mR113CwzX — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'I am furious that any ‘security’ person or police officer thought it necessary to move or arrest a republican who did no more than voice his views'.@UnHerd https://t.co/5mR113CwzX — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'I am hugely pleased that republicans exist, and that they have the guts to raise their voices against monarchy, just as I am pleased that monarchists are available to call them rude names'  @UnHerd https://t.co/5mR113CwzX — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ChimeWhistle: @daveprescott11 @jruddy99 @RAIL The daily assaults, trespass, signals passed at danger, and death on the railways mainly… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@stfbatory. You (deliberately) misunderstand. What I mean is that it is absurd to ask me to set the terms of, or suggest the outcome of, peace talks between Russia and the USA over their war in Ukraine. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @mehixter3: @polytixs @ClarkeMicah @johnsweeneyroar Why is calling out a lie uncivil? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Good heavens, Frizelda is amongst us again. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Well, .@mirandadavies01 I unreservedly condemn any rudeness towards you and apologise on behalf of those who have ben unpleasant to you, in so far as I can. You have yourself been perfectly civil and there was no justification for any such behaviour. — PolitiTweet.org