Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 @leebtconsulting Yet comparable backgrounds in *Wastern* Europe, notably Croatia and Ukraine, but also along the Baltic shore, are not the absolute no-no they would be in the West... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/3 @leebtconsulting It is a fascinating anomaly (and anomalies are one of the greatest aids to thought and observation. In any western European movement, such as Le Pen, the Vlaams Belang or the AfD, the slightest *hint* of Nazi nostalgia is (rightly) the kiss of death). — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@GlinnteAontroma Please explain why it is 'plumbing depths' to defend someone else's freedom of speech against arbitrary state punishment, without trial. You've obviously joined too many Twitter mobs, and it's weakening your reasoning process. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes, @chimewhistle, I have suggested Taiwan membership of NATO many times. Silence falls, even though, now NATO has intervened in Afghanistan, they can't say it's out of area. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'A bit like Hitler'. Ukraine's far right militias (they aren't keen on Jews) speak to the BBC - in the forgotten days before just mentioning their existence was deemed to be 'parroting Kremlin propaganda' — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Gosh - you mean you actually want Ms Truss to be Prime Minister? I was just trying to get some fun out of a dreary event. But how could you desire that? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@evolutionplants — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

My apologies, @evolutionplants. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Well indeed. As Horace Walpole famously said in 1739 'They are ringing their bells now. Soon, they will be wringing their hands'. The British public is oddly keen on war, and seems to have forgotten its 20th century privations. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Time we made a *serious* effort to get French co-operation in stopping the people-smuggling across the Channel: 'We CAN smash the smuggling gangs. But it’ll cost a lot of money... and pride'. https://t.co/iXip2juxpi — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@soilysound. The votes are all in. Nothing can happen. But polling an unknown electorate, without data on its previous behaviour is very hard to do. And Truss, never the most convincing candidate, has fought a dire campaign. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

My pleasure @cheekymark1917. Though I am surprised, given the instance in this case, that it has taken so long. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Because .@MclRawRee if they close the Channel route they diminish their own problems of migrants trying to get into France. And because we make it worth their wile, financially and diplomatically. France is an admirably realist nation. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Proof that I have been working for the destruction of the Tory Party for nearly 20 years :'The Tories are still useless, and if you really want to get Labour out, you should not vote Tory' https://t.co/L7xHOMDCuh — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Oh, well, I am resigned to that @fortyvictoria. I have been campaigning for the destruction of the Tory Party for many years. See https://t.co/L7xHOMDCuh — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

It sort of was, @cheekymark1917. It is a paraphrase, by a biographer, of a sentiment Voltaire undoubtedly expressed. Since he spoke French anyway, it's a pettifog. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@revolutionplants. Much the same as happened to him when Poroshenko and the Banderites destroyed his peace plan (the one he was elected on with 73% support, which suggests support for war is broad but shallow) . He can remain in office, but not be in power. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, an old-fashioned betting shop in the Oxford thoroughfare which was known in the Middle Ages as 'The Street of the Seven Deadly Sins'. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Perhaps @fortyvictoria. But you can't *know* .Political betting doesn't indicate support for the person you bet on. The biggest political bet I ever won was on Clinton in 1992. Betting small sums is a way of buying a bit of fun. If you win, better still. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @CainMRI: @ClarkeMicah My father in law barely spoke to me for months when this all kicked off. Proper Russophobe. He's since read all t… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@narrativeresist. Don't be rude.Refusing to go with the flow has won me a fair few election bets over time, though of course I don't win them all. In this case, no pollster has the Tory Party membership list, so polling is very difficult. Also Truss has fought a woeful campaign. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@azozone. That has nothing to do with it. The simple point of the article is that it is not Russian propaganda to point out Ukraine's failings in the fight to stamp out anti-Semitism. It is a legitimate thing fir any civilised person to say. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Well, today I placed a small bet on Sunak winning the Tory leadership, mainly because I'm wearied by everyone presuming the result on the basis of very limited information. I got 12 to 1, while Truss is 1 to 80. Under the circs, I thought I'd get longer odds on Sunak. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@pauldestiny1 You seem to have mistaken economic liberalism for conservatism. It is precisely because I am conservative about family life, morality and the obligations of the rich to the poor that I support the welfare state and generally social democratic economic policies. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: We now, in effect, have a land border with France. We must enlist the French to seal their side of it, however much it cos… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: How many times have you declaimed, with a catch in your throat, those great words ‘I disagree with everything you say- but… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

How many times have you declaimed, with a catch in your throat, those great words ‘I disagree with everything you say- but I defend to the death your right to say it’? Well, here’s a chance to show you mean it. Protest against the arbitrary punishment of Graham Phillips. https://t.co/QwssAOiO65 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

My column in The Mail on Sunday today: https://t.co/Swbz9Aj80M — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Letters page of The Mail on Sunday today reveals an appetite for debate on the Ukraine war which most media are not even trying to address. https://t.co/5dTIg7xkqI — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

We now, in effect, have a land border with France. We must enlist the French to seal their side of it, however much it costs in money and pride. https://t.co/sgqZsbCxVk via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org