Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

. @mf_dune It's because I have come to the conclusion that it is the battle between state power and the family, between the ruling power and private life, which has defined the 20th and 21st centuries. Btw Stalin also stamped out independent unions and other socialists. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

. @IanHowa34204347 He stuck with class as well. Many of his social programmes were standard left-wing (taxing the rich to gve to the poor, full employment etc) — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

yes @chriswebberski, just like Stalin(though in his case Lenin had already been given the keys to power by the reactionary Imperial German government, which aided and financed his putsch).What do you think happened to independent trade unionism and social democracy in the USSR? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@MF_DUNE You mustn't thnk that everyone else is ike you. Almostt everything interesting in the world involves departing from conventional wisdom, and thinking for yourself. Give it a try. And please read the article. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, @LaoCaiLarry1 If I was saying that, I would have said it. Odd, I know, but the boundary between truth and falsehood is actually quite clear. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@danielcoll84 My late brother did not understand a simple distinction - that Hitler and his close circle were Pagan theists, but not Christians. Watch the grotesque funeral of Reinhard Heydrich, and see if you can detect any trace of anything resembling Christianity. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@crustycobs, some priests were, beyond doubt. But look up Bishop von Galen of Muenster, for example, and the battles over schooling in Bavria, and you will find a different story. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Really .@jf_wayne? Extreme social conservatives who hated Christianity and actvely undermined the family? Something not quite right here. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@chriswebberski. But so did his supposed opposite Stalin, who had a short way with Mensheviks and SRs, and later with oppositional Bolsheviks. Yet the German CP refused to cooperate with Social Democrats against Hitler, denouncing them as 'Social Fascists'. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@peterfl88017159 Perhaps, but I judge by actions. As de Rougment says (quoted in my article) the effects of their policies were the effects you would have expected from a rather hard left-wing state. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @K_Niemietz: "I can't BELIEVE that a guy who used to peddle MY kind of conspiratorial juvenile drivel is now peddling a different kind o… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@JMCT681 There may well be, but the NSDAP wasn't it. It worked happily with Communists, hated Social Democrats, abhorred Christianity, destroyed families, and adopted what was then the left-wing cause of eugenics. Read the article. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @WilliamClouston: The Tories made sure our railways are foreign run, our energy is imported and our water industry is foreign owned. No… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

conservatves are constantly smeared as if they were borderline Nazis. In fact National Socialism was a left-wing creed wth added racial hatred (not unknown on the Left anyway). https://t.co/mvP2e8MP5H via @mailplus — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Nobody seems to know one crucial fact. The Nazis were very Left-wing. They hated Christianity and deliberately set children against their parents. They imposed penal taxes on the middle class and attracted Communists to their ranks. https://t.co/mvP2e8MP5H via @mailplus — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

End this crude smear against conservatives – Hitler’s Nazis were in fact Left-wing racists https://t.co/mvP2e8MP5H via @mailplus — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Signed copies of almost all my books may be obtained from Blackwell’s bookshop in Oxford . 01865 792792. Overseas +44 1865 792 792. https://t.co/N4oXOGZfqs — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I mean, *could* Powell and Manning not have *known* this about Kennan? It is hard to work out which is in worse in people who held such positions of power and influence and perhaps still do - That they did not know, or that they chose not to mention it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I have now made a copy of this article, lest it fades away. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

At last, after a fortnight, the FT publishes a letter correcting the foolish tone of its article on George Kennan. My own similar letter, perhaps more acid, remains unused. I suspect there were several. https://t.co/b7ma5vLsFh — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Lest we forget what could once be freely said about Ukraine, and now can't without being denounced, smeared etc: 'The Ukrainian protesters must make a decisive break with the far right' | Volodymyr Ishchenko https://t.co/5FgViJzraZ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

You should address this to Mr Sunak, not to me. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @arbuthnot_jim: @shaunmwing @Mrcrispy321 @ClarkeMicah @shdaquafella That was amazing. I recall when I watched it live, wishing that some… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/3 .@noomie525257 I can debate for ages, prefacing my remarks with explicit, unqualified condemnations of the invasion. And at the end I will still be told 'But that does not excuse the invasion'. You just don't listen. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 .@noomie525257 You illustrate the imposisbility of arguing with the 'Slava Ukraini' crowd. They cannot cocneive that anyone who disagrees with them is not either a pro-Kremlin stooge defending the invasion, or a sympathiser of Yanukovych, or both. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@noomie525257 Why would you expect me to be troubled by it? I despise Yanukovych, as I despise corrupt Russian and Ukrainian politics in general. I am not defending Yanukovych when I say he was overthrown by a putsch, as he was, I am defending the Ukrainan constitution. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @shaunmwing: @Mrcrispy321 @ClarkeMicah @shdaquafella The Great Lockdown Debate: Peter Hitchens vs. Dan Hodges | 10-Feb-21 - see below.… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

What have I dodged , .@paulzauch? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@paulzauch . I try to respond to any good faith question. Inevitably, I miss things, but if you have something you wish to pursue, please say so. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@mykhailoxpih. why then did he negotiate a package of concessions, including early elections, with the Maidan leadership? Why did *they* agree to it before independent witnesses? Makes no sense. — PolitiTweet.org