Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@paulweedon14. The Bandera & Shukheyvich traditions in Ukraine are strong and alive, and have great influence on a) the treatment of Ukrainians who don't speak Ukrainian & their resulting disaffection b) the destruction of Zelensky's efforts for peace and c) the 2014 putsch — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, @Schweinzig , it wouldn't be. But nobody does that, so it's not much of a point. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@paulmaccio. Wy do you tell these fibs?. On the contrary, as I've demonstrated in several public debates, I listen to my opponents, and respond to their points with facts and logic. 'Whataboutism' is a dismissive word for the ancient and valid Christian objection to hypocrisy. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@masteredjohn. Really? A few mocking tweets are 'grossly disproportionate, childish, and conceited.' Sensitivity training seems to have kickjed in, ina bihg way. I'm also genuinely unsure as to why it's 'conceited' to seek a debate on the most important issue of our time. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @_TheGMan: @holland_tom @neilfaz @ClarkeMicah @dcsandbrook All this is fine except we're not *really* expected to believe you had never… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@diggers1649. You mistake the eternal for the temporal. God is not a government, a state or a party. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@scottberry912. The considerable influence of Ukarine's ultra-nationalists was important a) in alienating many citizens in Crimea and in Ukraine's east, and b) in preventing a peace settelment between 2014 and 2022. It was also significant in the 2014 putsch. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@scottberry. Some of us are interested in *how* events develop, and the many reasons for them. We are wf course immediately accused of justifying invasions etc, but honestly, this is like accusing a pathologist of murdering the corpse he has dissected. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ThreeJacques: @smwright9 @1eerobinson @ClarkeMicah It's all so silly and fake. Where are the BBC on LGBT+? Are they for or against the… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Maria0Neill . Thank you. I am much of your opinion. I was shocked and dismayed by the Ros Atkins programme. What is more it is diffcult to understand the Ukraine crisis if you are unaware of this problem, — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I'll say it again, .@holland_tom. I don't care if you ever read my books or articles. I do care that a) you encouraged @dcsandbrook *not* to respond to me over Ukraine, and b) that you boast of your own closed mind. You mistake home truths for bad manners, a clean different thing — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Neilfaz. Basically it is about the observable fact that .@holland_tom is not demonstrating the attitudes of a serious scholar. He is also so used to being praised all the time that he is shocked and discombobulated by anything short of admiration. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

That , .@holland_tom was in response to your praise for a BBC, er, revision of its former quite forensic coverage of Ukrainian nationalism: 'Myth-busting & fact-sifting - @BBCRosAtkins exemplifying the BBC at its forensic best https://t.co/i2RK06aGe6…' — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Ah, .@holland_tom. messages such as this: 'Don’t be silly @holland_tom. The BBC has itself in the past produced many valid and serious reports on the real strength and importance of Neo-Nazis and. Banderovtsi in Ukraine. You must ask why it is downplaying this problem now'. ? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@countgabrielth . If you engaged with me, you might know that I do not think what you here claim I think. But never mind. Many people find uninformed prejudice keeps them happy, while actual knowledge would only distress them. You may be one of these. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@shining_lioness I pray for my enemies daily (if I go into detail it can take some time) but I don't presume to suggest to the Almighty how he should handle each particular difficulty. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@holland_tom. You boasted that you had formed an opinion of my writing without reading it. I don't care if you read what I write or not, but that's not the attitude of an educated or intelligent person. By all means base your readng choices on prejudice, but at least be ashamed. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@neilfaz I do not think it 'pompous' to respond, in a detailed and civil way, to an article by a historian. Nor do I think it pompous to seek a response. Nor do I think it amusing when the said historian declines to respond. Mr .@holland_tom does. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 You mean, .@neilfaz, that you agree with him and not with me. You may have forgotten(or never known) that .@holland_tom affected to be *amused* when his friend and mutual admirer, .@dcsandbrook, declined to respond to me when I critiqued his article on Ukraine. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ThreeJacques: @ClarkeMicah Classic mistake of conflating support for Blairite Conservatives for being on the right. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

. No, .@holland_tom, yesterday you accused me of being a troll (ths because I called you, rather lightheartedly, a 'tickle-minded flibbertigibbet'. Self-regard is surely a tricky subject for you. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@holland_tom. But your aim was to show disdain. I mute, too, but only when people won't engage seriously. *You*, by contrast, were applauding .@dcsandbrook for not engaging seriously (or at all) with me. When I mocked you for that, you took umbrage. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@mfaithfull. We had no idea , when we declared war, that France would collapse in 1940. We thought we were on by far the stronger side. We did not think survival was in question. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@StuartA19327936 Maybe, but it is not true. We scuttled from India, at terrible human cost, because we no longer had the wealth or strength to stay. Likewise the Palestine Mandate. In both cases we left behind a horrible mess which has still not been sorted out. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Quite @soderman. But which *major* author has admitted to this? Fashionable and claque-backed does not equal 'major'. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/3 .@Anonnowar22 I should have thought most people would also resist pressure from any government to change the way they wrote. If you give in to them on the name of a city, what will you give in on next? The kowtow on calling Peking 'Beijing' is part of a general grovel. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 .@anonnowar22. And yet I am sure Dr Devlin still calls 'Corcaigh' Cork, and 'Baile Atha Cliath' Dublin. Anbd I am baffled by the idea of an 'official English language name' for any world city. Official? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@anonnowar. What blind spot is that? My grasp of history teaches me that running with the crowd is generally a lazy mistake. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@GWard00744517 Thank you. I have yet to get any hard information from the publishers. If it *is* selling well it is despite *not* being reviewed by the unpopular papers, *not* being discussed on any BBC programme and *not* featured at any books festival. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Indeed, shocking .@liam_hutch87. I hope .@holland_tom doesn't see it. — PolitiTweet.org