Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes, I understand that .@guruanaerobic. But I had the privilege *and* responsibility of a national media platform,which meant a) that I could express the thought and b) that I could come under public attack for expressing it. I hope you can see here what I am tactfully implying. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you @EamonnMcManus10 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@JulianH82311609 Actually the Secondary Mods were quite well resourced and a lot of money was spent on new buildings etc. But from 1945 to 1951, their pupils could not take public exams, and it was ages before they were able to in any numbers. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@kennyedw. Fraser Nelson interviewed Rishi Sunak. That is the origin of this discussion. So i think it has already had more anlysis than that. In fact it has had much analysis, from Sikora, Ioannides, Sumption and many others. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/3 @janinethechef1 , Paul Cambon, the French ambassador throughout that period, said that Britain after 1918, compared with Britain before 1918, had undergone a revolution as radical as that France experienced after 1789. And the Tories did it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 @janinethechef1 . But the point at which the Tory Party culd no longer be said to be against the string state was 1916,when they entered the war coalition and supported a mass of new state pwoers, most especially militray conscription.... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@janinethechef1 .Not really. That distinction vanished in the 1950s when the Tory Party broadly accepted the actions of the 1945 Labour Government. Harold Macmillan, by then PM,had already embraced a great deal of state intervention before WW2, in his book 'The Middle Way'. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @JonnyTate: @SimonFr97766103 @ClarkeMicah @MailOnline He was certainly first. On the national stage anyway. Toby Young, James Delingpole… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: Actually, @SimonFr97766103 at that date you would struggle to find any other voice, in the media or politics, opposing the… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@maggie_tat I find on checking that Lord Sumption's Times article was buried inside that paper on 26th March 2020. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@maggie_tat 'The Times' buried Lord Sumption's early objections on the bottom of page 94, a doom from which I and BBC R4's 'World at One' (bless them) managed to rescue them. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Actually, @SimonFr97766103 at that date you would struggle to find any other voice, in the media or politics, opposing the panic from the very beginning. I was very glad of support when it came, but it took a few days to emerge. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: @diykitepoche. You clearly didn’t read it either. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

57 years after the Comprehensive school experiment was launched,& long after an easier examination was developed to test Comprehensive pupils, 35% failed to get a grade 4 or above in Maths GCSE, and 29.8% failed to get a grade 4 or above in English. Bring back the Secondary Mods! — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

57 years after the Comprehnsive school experiment was launched,& long after an easier examination was developed to test Comprehensive pupils, 35% failed to get a grade 4 or above in Maths GCSE, and 29.8% failed to get a grade 4 or above in English. Bring back the Secondary Mods! — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Whay are objections to unjustified impositions 'pathetic', @nickococks. Surely the question must revolve around the quality of evidence for mask compulsion. Their effectiveness cannot be presumed, in a free society governed by law and reason. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: I refuse to be compared in any way with Liz Truss. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: I refuse to be compared in any way with Liz Truss. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@diykitepoche — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: @diykiteppche, if you are confident of your predictions, why won’t you put your real name to them? You can vanish at any t… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

What I said, pretty much alone, in March 2020: PETER HITCHENS: Is shutting down Britain REALLY the right answer? https://t.co/MgV6B67fTv via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Superb article on the hysterical folly of ‘Lockdown’ by Fraser Nelson in today’s Telegraph. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

https://t.co/EFGW9J6bGA — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@tednorthuk. My political development has taken place over half a century, influenced by much study, direct experience and living and travelling abroad. I do not think the word ‘flipped’ applies. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@robertchallis I have never ‘misrepresented’ the Danmask study. I am the only British journalist who reported its outcome - an outcome which many others ‘misrepresented’ by suppressing. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I refuse to be compared in any way with Liz Truss. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Not so — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Oh no, not this again — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@theantman66 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@tyeabtman66 . Kind of you, and better late than never. — PolitiTweet.org