Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@northerness. It was fascinating. But as in so many otehr aspects of the panic, it was even more fascinating that nobody objected or questioned it. Masks are *still* demanded in hospitals, though I gave blood a couple of weeks ago and they seemed to have vanished there. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@CreatureBlair Oh, all right then https://t.co/ut7ApX3VUV — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: This sign (based on the pre-1965 Highway Code sign warning of a school), means 'Traditional Education Banned(except for th… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @oliness. I doubt the US would care a bit if the British and French 'deterrents' were closed down tomorrow. They were useful defences against the USSR and the Warsaw Pact(when many who now favour them furiously opposed them). Neither of these threats has existed for 30 years — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 Europe's defence against what, @oliness? Europe currently hosts the idiotic Russia vs US quarrel, recently transferred from Syria to Ukraine. But it has no interest of its own in it, and one thing we do now know is how useless Russia's military is. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@stevenhitchins. But nobody said it *was* the *worst* thing they have done. They boasted about it, at a time when they say they have neither time nor manpower to deal with burglary or to patrol the streets. Btw, you were supposed to tweet this on Monday. Be quicker next time. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

This sign (based on the pre-1965 Highway Code sign warning of a school), means 'Traditional Education Banned(except for the children of the rich and powerful)'.It is the symbol of my new book on the destruction of grammar schools, 'A Revolution Betrayed', due out in November. https://t.co/FhL4myGflg — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: @suastusa. Perhaps this will help you understand my objections. https://t.co/0pUHDOZGdy — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@suastusa. Perhaps this will help you understand my objections. https://t.co/0pUHDOZGdy — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@suastusa. It's very simple. As soon as the state attempted to *compel* the wearing of face coverings, the issue became much wider. I regard them as a form of compelled speech, in which the wearer gives an explicit endorsement of a questionable government policy. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@captainjustic14 The whole history of these carriers and the aircraft they are supposed to carry is one of mess, indecision and waste. I suspect their construction had more to do with politics than defence. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

But if they hadn't, would there be any trace, @northerness? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you @northerness. What would an ordinary person, unschooled in web techniques, have to do to find it? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

What's the difference? @markstweet5 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

What, again? See my timeline @creatureblair. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

It isn't, @tractorbadger but the position remains as it was when the deleted advice was given. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Nope @trich78murph . The only unimpeachable evidence was a randomised controlled trial in Denmark whose results (confirming HMG's original opinion) at first could not find a publisher and which were then buried by almost all UK media. Details on request — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @DefendAssange: Peter Hitchens on Julian Assange extradition: 'This is a political case...are you a proper country if another country ca… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@kynohy Is this a government site? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @kynohy: @ClarkeMicah Yes, now I have found this version published before the revision on Face coverings: The version 2.0 from 9 July 2… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 It is perfectly reasonable for the government to update and alter its publications. But the internet now provides the opportunity to erase all trace of previous versions, so that there is no easy way of showing that signifucant change was made. Is this ethical? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 I have a printed version of the original HMG documnet saying 'the evidence of the benefit of using a face covering to protect others is weak and the effect is likely to be small'. But does it survive *anywhere in current online HMG material? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Original HMG guidance from June 2020 'It is important to know that the evidence of the benefit of using a face covering to protect others is weak and the effect is likely to be small' survives here in a March 2021 doc from the Events Industry Forum https://t.co/zHW7Smtxwq — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Wording in a document issued by Warwickshire County Council 'the evidence of the benefit of using a face covering to protect others is weak and the effect is likely to be small' is identical to the now-vanished June 2020 HMG document https://t.co/i4dDnofsan — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @pandemicponcho. The rage was because it was true,& showed that it was not an 'independent deterrent'. The USA has many means of a) knowing what we are up to and b) stopping it . The British deterrent, like the 'special relationship' is a fairy tale for political children. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 yes, @pandemicponcho, I know the official line. I also remember the storm of howling rage from Mrs Thatcher when an MoD official accurately told me and a group of defence correspondents, back in the 80s, that Trident missiles would be leased from the USA and were not ours.... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Maurice, @mknelmes, none of them do that duty and nor have they for decades. That is one of many reasons why the existing so-called 'police', who refuse to serve us, should be first replaced by proper local forces that do what we pay them for, and then dissolved. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@bellaococ23 For the 50th time, why is dancing the macaroon at a political rally 'community policing'? Police don't do dances for the 'community' of burglary victims, or the 'community' (millions strong) whose lives are wrecked by anti-social behaviour in their neighbourhoods. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@pandemicponcho. Not on a piece of paper. But the missiles used in our submarines are American-built and owned, and serviced in the USA. And if there is one Navy that has the skill and technology to find our single Trident submarine, it is the USN. — PolitiTweet.org