Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@tubeeayarmy29. To be fair, Tuby, Zelensky did not predict the invasion, nor did Lavrov . The only people who did were spooks, whose predictions are usually wrong, and the late Vladimir Zhirinovsky. So I’m unbothered. As for the rest, you disagree with me. I can cope., — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

When did I do that?? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@dvharding. Which Ukrainians? Zelensky was elected on a peace ticket and then undermined by Poroshenko. And then there are the Ukrainians in the Don Basin, not now represented in Kiev. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you @olioncourt_uk — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @KWargamer: @ClarkeMicah You can't go around bringing experience and facts to discussions. They might contradict someone's beliefs and i… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'What do I know? I’ve only lived in the region and been closely interested in it for decades. So I’m disqualified from the national debate – under the rule that it is now a positive disadvantage to know anything about the subject under discussion.'https://t.co/2YiqzZFBUn — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'This is not really a principled war against evil. The Foreign Office has no such principles. Mr Johnson has no such principles. Britain is not going to support a war against Saudi Arabia, whose tyranny is just as foul as Putin’s – if not worse. ' https://t.co/2YiqzZFBUn — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

A long war in Ukraine will bring nothing but death, poverty and ruin. It’s time for peace https://t.co/2YiqzZFBUn via @mailplus — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

What, @javieogwang? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thanks for this @Frasernelson. I just wish there was any chance that a truly impartial inquiry could be established into the claims made at the time, and the facts. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@baggylondon. I was under the impression that terms such as 'denier' and 'covidiot' were not in fact compliments. You are not even aware that you are using these abusive terms, even though you did so here only a few minutes ago. Try a bit of self-awareness. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@sival84 Perhaps. Venki Ramakrishnan, then president of the Royal Society, astonishingly sneered at ‘inappropriate’ RCTs as ‘methodological fetishism’. He did this (while advocating more compulsory mask-wearing) when he appeared on Radio 4’s Today programme on July 7 2020 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Did you not start the name-calling, @baggylondon? You cannot then complain very much if others join in. All I did was post the actual conclusion of the Danmask study. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@shaunmwing. This unfortunate person is using twitter as his or her therapy for something or other. I advise against encouraging it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@pinkojames — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Not my fault that @robertchallis hadn't seen this. I have many times linked to it in the past two years. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Indeed @uncommonsense74, I amm ceaselessly urging people to read this discussion of 'peer review' , which is no substitute for hard experiment https://t.co/6GowGzsAb5 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@janinethechef1. I agree. But it is precisely when proper journalists are not too up themselves that they can be relied on to do the job. Above all, private ownership and genuine competition keep them honest. When these die, as they are doing, things deteriorate. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@AdamJoh04292263 A lawless dicatorship could indeed impose such a ban. But a free country could not. Fee-charging schools are barely known, have low prestige and are little-used in Germany, which has academically selective state secondary schools. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@robotlong. Yawn if you will. But it is demonstrable, see here https://t.co/oJIefgQIka and here https://t.co/ZDeB0yN11o , that they have been weakened greatly since 1965 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@challiscj I do not see how reproducing its conclusion in full can be called 'cherry-picking', especially by someone who plainly has never read the actual report. Far more worrying is that your dogmatic beliefs make you incapable of *understanding* the report. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@robertchallis. It says the diff between masked & unmasked was statistically insignificant, i.e. that it could equally well have come about by chance. That's its key finding. Your prob is that you do not *want* to believe this, so you refuse to see it. I can't help you further. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@janinethechef1. After Watergate and the film 'All the President's Men', journalism was transformed from a pretty disreputable ocupation into a high-prestige graduate career. A lot of people went into it for the fun and the chance to show off. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Nice cartoon @realbartdude, but who are you accusing of hindsight over what? It is not clear. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Why was it 'a good thing for most children' that excellent schools in Scotland were denied to all but the rich (private education, especially in Edinburgh, has had a boom in Scotland since 1965)? Why was it a good thing that the Grant-Aided schools were closed to the poor? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@jhaninethechef. Journalism's not a profession, just a trade, and much of it is more closely related to show business than to history. But its commercial success has for centuries made it independent of government, and its competitive pluralism has kept it honest. Alas.... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@pinlkojames Astral Plane is automaytically against anything I favour and vice versa. Ignore him. Like most such studies the Danmask people published their plan beforehand. I can find no trace of anyone, least of all Merrikins, having said they were 'underpowered'. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Mass unreason is very common. Most people, and this does not exclude journalists or politicians, feel happier in a crowd. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@baggylondon. I never use the term 'fake news' except when quoting others. The thing about the Danmask study is that it was a first-hand randomised controlled trial, the gold standard of objective research(conducted by pro-maskers) . Do you have one of those? — PolitiTweet.org