Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: Of what are you a doctor , @waitmanb? Have you not heard of controversy, of argument between people of differing opinions… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@mikechurch56. Proper journalists know answers because they ask questions. I have not seen Mr Lineker asked this question, nor seen him answer it. As I cannot read his mind, I have no other way to know. Who are you, by the way, to decide who is or is not a journalist? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I should point out here that while .@waitmanb Dr Waitman Beorn is currently pulling rank as a teacher and author, he opened his exchange with me with a crowd-pleasing burst of abuse - in conflict with his standing. It was this which caused me to ask what he was a doctor *of*. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yup — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @louishenwood. It's plain to anyone with any sense that this is an argument about the left, its self-regard, its awkward history and the extraordinary collaboration between Stalin and Hitler which seems to be too big for many leftists to see, let alone understand. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 @louishenwood. I have never claimed to be an intellectual of any kind. But I do not think Dr Waitman Beorn has 'owned' me in any way. He's challenged me, using reason unlike most of my attackers, but has also shown himself to be slippery in debate. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: .@natecochrane. It feels pretty damned good to be the target of such childish crudity and pettiness. The abuse of the igno… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@lukedalygroves How does it 'disprove' it? Hitler is in any case famous for self-contradiction and lying, but I am not talking about him personally. I am talking about the Nazis as a movement and a political organisation. The Gestapo and the NKVD got on very well. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Well, I ignore rude and stupid people in the street @fdhamptonjb. The same thing applies here. I would call that common sense, not cowardice. Goodbye now. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

And now for something completely different. @garylineker . You referred to Ms Braverman using 'language that is not dissimilar to that used in Germany in the ’30s.' Which of Ms Braverman's words do you refer to, and, more crucially, which language used by Germany in the 1930s? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

If you agree with him. When will people grasp that the thesis that the Nazis were left-wing is an attack on the left, which the left are bound to hate, but which few of them can even address?.@waitmanb is a bit slippery, but he at least tries. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

My goodness, these are potent arguments ,@blake2_0 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

You should have your pants sued off for telling defamatory lies about me, @fdjhampton, but you probably won't be because you are obviously too stupid to learn form the experience, and I wouldn't want your money. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

In what way would you say I was a coward, @fdhamptonjb? By the way, it is a defamatory lie to accuse me of Holocaust denial. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/4 And now .@waitmanb, you pretend that my point that 'In the 1930s, progressives’ such as Stopes recognised affinities with the Nazis which were quite evident to them' and that *this* is now taboo, was a claim that the subject of *eugenics* is taboo. Nasty. Behave yourself. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 .@waitmanb You then ( wrongly assuming I wouldn't have instant access to the article involved) produced a quotation which I regard as actively misleading about the contents of that article.... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/3 You are a slippery one , aren't you .@waitmanb? Is this god academic practice these days? You twisted my words earlier by substituting the word 'regimes' for 'societies' in an attribution so wholly changing my meaning. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@waitmanb . Galen is on my side of this argument, not yours. In any case his survival is almost unique. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@waitmanb I really don't see how you can offer this article, which describes the rapid forced descent of the German professions into terrified servility, as a counter to my point. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Hey, .@waitmanb - original use of quotation! — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Gosh, , @nottycurs, that is almost poetic. How do you do it? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@natecochrane. It feels pretty damned good to be the target of such childish crudity and pettiness. The abuse of the ignorant is a compliment. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

12/121 . Perhaps Stalin saw more clearly how little divded the two, than many people on Twitter. But that is not so surprising. The grisly old monster may have been many terrible things, but he was never stupid. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

11/12 The Pact was not cold and mechanical. Stalin voluntarily drank a toast to the Fuehrer as he entertained Ribbentrop. The two tyrants co-operated warmly in many matters. Both despised the democracies (and both hated the Jews). — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

10/12. This is why I have for decades regarded the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, its genesis, conclusion and implementation, as the central historical event of the post 1918 era. It repays much study. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

9/12 It would be impossible for me to make the claim if 'left-wing' did mean 'nice, kind and good'. But in practice, especially under Stalin, it meant 'ruthless, including towards its own loyal followers, cruel, cynical and homicidal'. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

8/12 . My critics also seem terribly unaware of the crimes of Communism in the 20th century, in many cases comparable to the crimes of the Nazis. In fact this is the core of the matter. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

7/11 It is not unknown for political movements to portray themselves as one thing while being another. Hitler copied the basic mechanism of 19th century leftism - capture power by offering tax-funded rewards to impoverished or jobless followers. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

6/9 .. and hardly any actually addressed the central point of my original article, that Nazism was not what it *appeared to be*, but something else. that German conservatives who had been fooled by it began to suspect that it was 'Communism in disguise. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

5/8 These arguments all fell, either on the basis of fact or logic. Yet the bilious fury continued. Nobody really addressed the awkward fawning episode between Hitler and the Eugenicist Marie Stopes, because the Left hates to recall that it once embraced this cause. — PolitiTweet.org