Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@PhilWat10127274 This is just abuse, the weapon of the child. If you have any facts or logic to deploy, please do so. Otherwise, best stay away. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@janesim66. No, Blair simply continued a long process of diluting educational standards begun in 1965 with the mass destruction of Grammar Schools. Please see https://t.co/oJIefgQIka — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

In the end the real lesson of the Danmask report was that, if scientific research conflicts with groupthink, it is the research that is pushed out of the way. Work on that basis and you will understand the modern world a lot better. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Would also be very interestingto get hold of the original Danmask report, before three major scientific journals refused to publish it. I suspect it would have been a lot less qualified. Even the qualifications did not persuade almost all British media to report it *at all*. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'note', not 'not' — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@robertchallis. ‘The difference observed [between mask wearers and non- mask wearers] was not statistically significant’ . Actual text of Danmask report. Got it now? https://t.co/wr58TqOmJM — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Actually the CSE was a latecomer. From 1951 onwards, Secondary Mod pupils increasingly took GCE O level with considerable success . Significant numbers switched to grammars to complete A levels. Not these exams far tougher than today’s. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @rtsrichard: @PinkoJames @robertchallis @BrianB5000 @ClarkeMicah The guy behind the study gave an interview way back on Unherd. The stud… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @PinkoJames: @robertchallis @BrianB5000 @ClarkeMicah Not statistically significant in the words of the study. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

This is quite wrong @robertchallis. It is time you braced yourself and read the actual report. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@robertchallis. Who cares what I'd say ? The tweet to which you are responding is directly quoted (with minor edits for length) from the Danmask report . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @Harry71A: @Audrey_Giles @uOCampus PETER HITCHENS: Face masks turn us into voiceless submissives - and it's not science forcing us to we… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @angryfromeston: @ClarkeMicah @BigThickSlices @MailOnline As is more often than not, you were indeed right! — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Correct. I did not hope, expect or intend to get the nomination. I knew perfectly well that Portillo, a former Cabinet Minister, would win it. They did not even interview me. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Glad you’re enjoying it @jacobwasp — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: Further Evidence on IPSO's Curious Arrogation of New Powers to Itself https://t.co/2NzNUYzYFe — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Further Evidence on IPSO's Curious Arrogation of New Powers to Itself https://t.co/2NzNUYzYFe — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@sival84 You are treating a glancing comment as if it was a definitive news account. In fact, I had written the *only* UK national newspaper account of the outcome of the Danmask study some time before, and no complaint has ever been made against it. https://t.co/2NzNUYzYFe — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

FYI .@yorkshirehiker, this was the first occasion on which IPSO, the press regulator, condemned *comment*, something it is not supposed to do. Here is the history of the case: https://t.co/2NzNUYR1He — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @StevenLost33: @DanielJHannan @JonnyTate @SimonFr97766103 @ClarkeMicah @MailOnline https://t.co/7Ux4cgRCpQ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@jeffjfyke. Thank you. I was *brought up* on the war, it wa sone of the few things we all talked, read and thought about. It took me ages to start wondering how the phoney war somehow became a famous victory. And then... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@SimonFr97766103 Perhaps so, but for obvious reasons they had no way of drawing attention to this dissent. My own impression was the the fear campaign had largely worked. I knew several people whom I had thought to be independent-mided sceptics, becoming supporters of shutdown. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

And you have to remember @robertchallis that this 'result' was what survived after major journals had flatly refused to publish a study whose results they did not like. We do not know what was removed to get it published in the end. Btw, the researchers were pro-mask. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Record number of e-scooter riders ending up in ICU in Melbourne hospitals https://t.co/DoCdonWMH5 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@robertchallis '3030 participants randomly assigned to recommendation to wear masks, & 2994 were assigned to control; 4862 completed the study.Infection occurred in 42 participants recommended masks (1.8%) and 53 control participants (2.1%). The difference was −0.3 %age point' — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@cassisnouveau I was aware of that. What still annoys me, is how many *major* voices in my trade (who I suspect now like to think of themselves as Lockdown Sceptics) remained silent or equivocal duirng the crucial weeks. If they had spoken, it could have changed things. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No @danielhannan, but I think that I am first (my first major piece on March 15 2020) in a national newspaper. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@janinethechef1. What I found during my brief membership was that there is in fact no political discussion in the Tory Party. Just the opportunity to raise money and vote for what the leadership (and who really picks them?) decides. The Party constitution is pretty much secret. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Well, who knows @janinethechef1? The GCSE's existence as a national exam is itself a measure of educational decline. But it is what we have. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@madcarew2 I can't type. Most journalists can't. — PolitiTweet.org