Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@gorsha_DH. I think you should mention that I publicly withdrew and apologised to @countdankulatv , perhaps the most important thing about the exchange. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @StoopToRise: @lmrwanda @kaschuta Peter Hitchens on the importance of enforcement and the myth that bans don't work: https://t.co/GkKFVm… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@hemingquay I am just amazed if anyone familiar with the beauty and power of the King James does not prefer it, and am saddened that people can become prominent writers who are either not familiar with it or do not prefer it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 Glad to hear it @hemingquay. But your original question suggested that you might be taking the 'new versions are better translations' or 'new versions are easier to understand' line. This is by no means universally the case. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

*Good* that you have never read my work? That just about sums up the difference between us, .@holland_tom. I dislike your work *because* I have read it. You are dismissive of me *without* having read my work. Why on earth did you hand me such an easy win? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@CommonsHomeAffs Can you please say when you plan to publsh your report on drugs? It seems to me that hearings etc finished some time ago. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@sorbetsunshine, I am very pleased if it was of any help to you. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@rhubbacomedy didn't, of course, provide the requested examples. He made it up. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@primleyjack The league was never in modern use. But when my late father helped sink the German raider 'Scharnhorst' at North Cape on Boxing day 1943, the (then) world's best Navy still used fathoms in soundings & on its excellent charts. Scharnhorst used metres and km. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

4/4 .@lazarus3271 This may inertest you. https://t.co/uUhf2S5lAR . in the meatime, Shakespeare is being rewritten 'Full 9.144 metres thy father lies' and 'let her paint 2.54 centimetres thick, to this favour she must come'. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Why I still use the fathoms my naval father used in the Second World War, while beating Hitler. My Reply to the Metric Zealots https://t.co/uUhf2S5lAR — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/4 .@lazarus3271. Fathoms are not archaic. In the days when we had a proper Navy, the one that won the Battle of the Atlantic, Admiralty charts were measured in fathoms and soundings were taken in them. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 .@lazarus3271. these measures are human in scale, and indeed mostly vase don the human body, rather than top-down arbitrary state-regulated things. Their survival is only posisble in free countries, hence their rapid disappearance in modern Britain... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@lazarus3271 Six feet (the French equivalent is a 'toise'). I like to keep English customary measurements in use, likewise referring to furlongs (a foreign 'kilometre' is five of these, while an English mile is eight) , chains (still used in cricket and on railways) ... — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: .@holland_tom raises the tone. Tom, I have ordered a custard pie from Fortnum's and asked them to deliver it to you in the… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@RhubbaComedy Do I? Always? Should be easy toprovide lots of examples quite quickly, then. Please do so. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I still stick with the conclusions of former Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski (first version, before he had a sudden change of mind) — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I know, @ajcarter1984. But like my exemplars, Eeyore and Puddleglum, I get much more fun out of being sad than you can possibly imagine. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@garysparrow41, on the contrary, whenever I debate it I find a genuine hunger for serious discussion, unmet by the BBC or most mainstream media. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@b2amc When did I change for the worse, in your view? I would genunely like to know. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@tedxsheckler. Did I say they did? But people who wish to make pronouncements on major issues can expect to be challenged; and in my view, they owe it to the reading public to respond to such challenges. Do you *dislike* debate? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@hemingquay. Contemporary with what? The Authorised Version is a superb translation, which is also enriched by poetry. It is beautiful, memorable, and perfect for reading out loud. It is interwoven in 500 years of English literature and life. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

One up from 'sources', .@neil_on_wye. Which paper was it that used to claim it had photographs of B-52s on the Moon? It was refreshing to see rubbish presented as rubbish, rather than as carefully-sourced serious stuff. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@holland_tom raises the tone. Tom, I have ordered a custard pie from Fortnum's and asked them to deliver it to you in the customary fashion, providing a napkin for your post-pie needs. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@heminquay Alas, no. Wish I was. Weirdly irritated by .@holland_tom's use of modern Bible texts rather than classics. Makes me feel I am reading somebody who is unaware of and unmoved by large parts of the past. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

This verges on the comical. Six people and a yacht? Do these people have any idea what equipment and skill it takes to breach a concrete-encased steel pipeline 50 fathoms down? 'Officials believe pro-Ukraine group may have sabotaged Nord Stream – reports' https://t.co/8Ms0WWA0gS — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

You are correct, .@holland_tom. He is indeed much too kind. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@KathleenLipins6 It is good, isn't it? I think I first heard it spoken aloud and outside a book from the great James Fenton, 50-odd years ago. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@chilldamonkout. You may be sure that the State Department already has the documents ready. The USA acceded to the expulsion of Taiwan from the UN , and cancelled its diplomatic recognition of that nation. Peking knew then what sort of opponent it faced. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

. @xphw6ffchf, .@peachmax is more to be pitied than deplored. CH's fanboys wrongly thought that cheering on his often muscular style of debate made *them* brave and bright.Generally they're basement-dwellers,whose main activity is the conversion of sugary drinks into human fat. — PolitiTweet.org