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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@michaelrosenyes. I agree with Brian Simon about the problems with IQ(he was undoubtedly right) though I also acce… https://t.co/QbKfFlQMOB — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah Brian Simon's research was on the 11-plus and the non-validity and non-reliability of IQ. Refer us to… https://t.co/VBTPfP0XuF

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@michaelrosenyes. So no evidence is needed for it? Once again, in the view of @michaelrosenyes, 'everybody knew' so… https://t.co/y4rvu3vqYA — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah @JamieHobson3 What? Were you awake in the 50s? The whole conversation around the 11-plus, grammars and… https://t.co/1CuZntJJl2

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, actually @michaelrosenyes. I have gone back into the thread and find, as I thought, that what I raised was the… https://t.co/6rFcKwpfAt — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah We were arguing about the 11-plus. One exam with one purpose. You've just generalised it out into an a… https://t.co/gToYRZHK9f

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Who precisely defined you in this way @jamiehobson3? Even now, such a person or persons should be reproved.Please… https://t.co/j6YvcAbboW — PolitiTweet.org

@MichaelRosenYes @ClarkeMicah I failed my 11 plus in the 60’s and when I finally went to the local grammar school t… https://t.co/jqy5zRQ2iC

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

You mean, of course,that you don't have any such research,@michaelrosenyes.Comprehensives were an egalitarian polit… https://t.co/ktjgNUOxaa — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah You're the journalist. Go back to Halsey and Floud. Look at the materials produced by Brian Simon, loo… https://t.co/ctv11GSQJI

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I have. https://t.co/jd3ABUpNFp — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah You're the journalist. Go back to Halsey and Floud. Look at the materials produced by Brian Simon, loo… https://t.co/ctv11GSQJI

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

What plan , @gablid? https://t.co/acOHeAwFVe — PolitiTweet.org

In Solihull in 80s Tory council proposed return to Grammars. Was massively popular with parents. When we pointed ou… https://t.co/3PFWGfjn7y

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes, this is about the tiny, unrepresentative rump of surviving grammar schools mostly in well-off areas and taking… https://t.co/1SEsXAFcIa — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I absolutely promise to look at it @michaelrosenyes, please give me a link.I am fascinated by the subject. But at… https://t.co/LeII0zq4PC — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah Whatever you do, don't look at our Sec Mod website where people give their testimonies of what it wa… https://t.co/2RTSFN1bzY

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I don't think I said that . Where did I say that @michaelrosenyes? I said you had prejudices against them. I believ… https://t.co/t9dbIxbt2F — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah You keep saying that I and others don't know what sec mods are like and at the same time you keep reve… https://t.co/nzm4pXqaFh

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@michaelrosenyes, The view I express in my book is that this is not a criticism of grammars but of inadequate provs… https://t.co/nJNJEOlR8w — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah Have you figured out what to do if more girls than boys pass the 11-plus? (which is what happened thro… https://t.co/6EXjHjCWJY

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@michaelrosen. Because I encounter it all the time, and find that, under examination, it is not justified. If you t… https://t.co/JWkmlTj69R — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah Weasel words: 'prejudice'. Why assume that a thought-out, studied view is a 'prejudice'? What a great… https://t.co/Y6yyXj0YOw

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

But I have no such programme @michaelrosenyes . My book, as you will find when you come to read it, offers no such… https://t.co/QpmlJNAEor — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah 'I have no plan' - there speaks the person who is about to flood the world with his programme to bring… https://t.co/58Q02um5NY

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I would be most interested in seeing the research on which this statement beginning 'everyone knew...' is based,… https://t.co/ltrPkfsVFA — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah The grave national error was that during the time of the grammar schools, everyone knew that the syste… https://t.co/hL8JjfAzDE

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@michaelrosenyes. Are you in the middle of a personality transplant? I have absolutely no idea at all what has prov… https://t.co/KqO09gFeJi — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah @SeeYaDarling You must try to dampen down your personal envy and bitterness directed towards me and yo… https://t.co/mi9TRDvQXT

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I make no reflection on your lovely, furry personality @michaelrosenyes. It is not 'getting personal' to point out… https://t.co/O07Xg7gW3P — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah I wondered when you'd get personal - and irrelevant. My father (a 'progressive') helped design the CSE… https://t.co/zQSIrQBCuU

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @michaelrosenyes The failure to build *enough* grammar schools before the Bulge hit in 1956, & the failure to e… https://t.co/L8m1ujUGmE — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah Have you figured out the 'problem' of what happens when the number of places in grammar schools doesn'… https://t.co/a0T4DWgu40

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 have no plan, @michaelrosenyes. People like you, with their dogged opposition to the selection by ability from… https://t.co/mtEDUNNKvU — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah Have you figured out the 'problem' of what happens when the number of places in grammar schools doesn'… https://t.co/a0T4DWgu40

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@seeyadarling. As @michaelrosenyes well knows there is an even greater difference between the examinations of the m… https://t.co/bPV3wbhSiF — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah @MichaelRosenYes they are definitely not equal I took them in the 1980s and there is a huge differenc… https://t.co/lby6Q02iTJ

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Well, so what @michaelrosenyes? Is everyone coming out of comps with three A levels? You seem unable to tell symbol… https://t.co/Qd7dieZkHj — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah Only the top stream in sec mods in the 50s got to take O-levels. In theory this top stream shouldn't h… https://t.co/ViTm9RgI47

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/3 @michaelrosenyes.The best evidence on 'O' levels is the regrading of them,followed by their abolition. Jenni Ru… https://t.co/C1IJSvfErD — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah Ah the old dodge: rubbish the qualifications that people get. I worked in comps where students in sec… https://t.co/Wi3b7Hmh7K

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 @michaelrosenyes The 'rubbishing' of which you speak was not done by me but by those who diluted the examinati… https://t.co/ssr2zfOEPa — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah Ah the old dodge: rubbish the qualifications that people get. I worked in comps where students in sec… https://t.co/Wi3b7Hmh7K

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @MichaelRosenYes: @ClarkeMicah Ah the old dodge: rubbish the qualifications that people get. I worked in comps where students in sec mod… — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 7, 2022 Retweet

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/3 @michaelrosenyes. I did not realise that you disputed the existence of exam inflation. Do you then maintain tha… https://t.co/D7uEx5fKhY — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah Ah the old dodge: rubbish the qualifications that people get. I worked in comps where students in sec… https://t.co/Wi3b7Hmh7K

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @michaelrosenyes, as far as I know it was educational 'progressives' such as yourself who believed examinations… https://t.co/Pa3btyIEdF — PolitiTweet.org

@18tintaweb @ClarkeMicah Yes. Of course Peter will factor in the millions who left Sec Mods without qualifications… https://t.co/hscOQhDviF

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 @michaelrosenyes. Not sure what point you seek to make, Many now leave bog-standard comps with 'qualifications'… https://t.co/Cj5Mxew6al — PolitiTweet.org

@18tintaweb @ClarkeMicah Yes. Of course Peter will factor in the millions who left Sec Mods without qualifications… https://t.co/hscOQhDviF

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Because @michaelrosenyes, you appear to share the general prejudice against Secondary Mods. Their biggest problem w… https://t.co/Nn6wgRlu8C — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah Why are you telling me this? I lived through the 11plus. In my school, about a quarter of us went to g… https://t.co/mIhExJRak2

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The original 1999 hardback of my first book ‘The Abolition of Britain’ , still in print. Most of my books may be or… https://t.co/o1nmXAEpY9 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 7, 2022

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @TCourtnadge: @ClarkeMicah @MailOnline Yes but it's easier to pin the blame on the demon Putin than to admit that the C19 panic measures… — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 7, 2022 Retweet

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The single biggest driver of inflation for the last two years has been the grotesque spending of funny money by Ris… https://t.co/9E1EHUyHzd — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah It has yet to fully kick in, but it is still the single biggest driver of inflation. Prices went up by… https://t.co/Buws4pzK2f

Posted Aug. 7, 2022