Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Lomng befire that @jsherredadams — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@lumieres_mnt I do no such thing. Also, what is in dipsute here? The Party of Regions has not competed in any Ukrainian election since 2012 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Why are they wrong @lumieres_mnt ? Does Ukraine have no oligarchs? Do they not wield power? Was Zelensky's peace plan not derailed by Poroshenko and the Banderites? Has the Party of Regions (main voice of the east) not ceased to exist since 2014? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

There are statements of fact. What do you dispute and on what basis, @lumieres_mnt ? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@JohnHawkins2323 And yet, though this has been so now for more than ten years, many Tory voters still turn out and vote for people who are demonstrably opposed to (and in many cases actually scorn) their hopes and beliefs. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

You seem to think .@terrychristian , that the Tory Party is a right wing organisation. You have no idea how hilarious this belief is to actual right-wing people. See https://t.co/n88OvdOc3A and https://t.co/aTwslF9Byp — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@lumieres_mnt You don't even know what 'refute' means. And I have no 'conspiracy theory' ('Zelensky is secretly controlled by unspecified "Western nationalists" and/or oligarchs).' If I had, I would have said so. Referenced direct quotes, please, by the stipulated time. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

If I have demonstrated this, @lumieres_mnt, then you will swiftly be able to show, with the use of referenced direrct quotes, where and when I did so. Please do so. I suggest by 12.30 PM, BST. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@lumieres_mnt. Who are you accusing of 'vapidity'. Do you know what it means ? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Does anyone in government have any idea what to say to the many small businesses which are now in this position? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I don't recall anyone taking this view when the USA invaded sovereign Iraq,or Britain & France bombed sovereign Libya,or when Saudi Arabia intervened in Yemen. I *do* recall the USA's equivocation when the Argentine junta invaded the sovereign Falklands. As for Cyprus in 1974... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@ichbinmandryka Why then do Ukrainian flags fly from public buildings all over this country? Why has 'Chicken Kiev' become 'Chicken Kyiv' ? Why is the very mention of Ukraine's awkward past greeted with blasts of vilification? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No it doesn't — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@russellguest6 , but I have nominated you for a scholarship at the Thought Police Academy, thanks to the subtle skills at insinuation and smear which you have so ably demonstrated here. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@russellguest6 . What 'tone'? These formulations ('Your tone implies... 'You appear to say... etc ) almost invariably mean that I have *not* said and do *not* think the thing you seek to attribute to me - but you are going to claim that I have said it and think it anyway. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@lumieres_mnt This is abuse. If I am mistaken, show me where I am mistaken and why. Otherwise I and others are entitled to suspect that you don't debate properly because you don't know how. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@comodular, and here's the article it was taken from: PETER HITCHENS: We need museums on Stalin's terror all over the world https://t.co/WjlDGMa20f via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@comodular. See also here, more recent, but demonstrates a pattern. My advice to you, don't argue with ex-Trotskyists about history or Soviet crimes. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@comodsular, there's this from July 2010 : A Final Word https://t.co/B1JwpLxfUs — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

What *was* I saying @comodular? I've been giving prominence to the Brest-Litovsk joint victory parade since long before it was fashionable. I'm not saying Russia is good. I'm saying Ukraine isn't either. This is not Gandalf versus the Orcs. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@Lumieres_mnt That would assume that Zelensky, rather than the usual oligarchs, actually runs the Ukrainian state. Since the defeat of Zelensky's peace plan by Poroshenko and the Bandersnatches, this has obviously not been the case. Ignorance is generally wilful. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@andyblueskyz. Nope. My sympathies in this are for the people of Britain, being dragged into a conflict from which we gain nothing and could lose a great deal. Childish simplification of the issues helps this to happen. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @bobski0322 And I am also accused falsely of hating Ukraine etc. All I am saying is that we can't have a serious debate on the issue if people imagine it's a battle of pure good against pure evil. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 @bobski0322 There's no 'perhaps' about it. Russia's a tightening tyranny and currently engaged in inexcusable aggressive war. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was an eternal disgrace. Though I say this, most of my pro-Ukraine attackers pretend that I don't - or claim I'm lying. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @Shakesvshav: @ClarkeMicah A war artist about whom a documentary film, 'Drawn to War', is currently doing the rounds. He died when his a… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

But I didn’t say anything. I just quoted from a magazine. They said it. I pointed out that if I * had* said it, I would be shouted down. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @anonnowar How could I not ‘consider the Ukrainian view’? But there is more than one Ukrainian view, a fact which was reflected in the sharply divided politics of Ukraine before the 2014 putsch empowered the Western nationalist faction. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@anonnowar22 1/2 Bilge. The Economist has been campaigning for a ‘new cold war’ for years. All journalists have biases. Mine is open. The ones to watch out for are the ones who pretend to be impartial. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@shdfelka. I ‘deny’ nothing . It is not I who ‘denies the agency’ of the Ukrainian people but ( for example) Victoria Nuland of the US State Department, who chose Ukraine’s new cabinet after the 2014 putsch, in which of course there was *no* foreign involvement, yeah. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@Anonnowar . Western liberals who rightly mistrust nationalist movements in Germany, Italy, Flanders or France, because of their dubious Nazi-tainted origins, somehow abandon this caution in Ukraine, so helping to turn a complex crisis into a ‘Gandalf versus the Orcs’ fairytale. — PolitiTweet.org