Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Here's the interesting thing. Three years ago I was virtually alone in doubting the propaganda for shutting down the country, derided, smeared and accused of personal wickedness. Now I'm virtually alone in another dispute, and, guess what? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@grendelsmate. It is obvious to the meanest intelligence that I am not. What is more interesting is why you should try to spread this defamatory, cowardly lie from behind the cover of a pseudonym, and who or what has motivated you to do so. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Alas, these 'Ten Commandments of War Propaganda' are still in force in every belligerent nation. Far more mazing is the willingness of theoretically free and educated peoples to be gulled by such obvious dishonesty. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: Amazing that people * still* blithely assert that Yanukovych was not unlawfully deposed. Here’s Prof Richard Sakwa, in ‘… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@noomie52525257 . Because people like you refuse to grasp the point: I think NATO expansion is a stupid policy, which predictably made war more likely. I think Putin was wrong and stupid to invade. But NATO expansion was a grave mistake, and had no good purpose. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No @faded_memory. The many assurances were verbal. Nobody ever said it was a written treaty. This is a straw man argument used by NATO expanders to avoid the actual point -that expansion was a slap in the face of Russian democrats, and helped create angry Russian nationalism. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@johnmellis Jenkins, yes, but not fort that reason. The story is told in my book ‘The Abolition of Liberty’ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@xphw6ffchf Ah, well, OK then . The official police line has for years been that they do have the manpower for foot patrol. I researched this and found that it was simply untrue. We have far mote police, absolutely and per capita, than we did in the days of Dixon. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

They could neither use them nor secure them They did not have them. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@cphw6ffchf. Sort of - see my 2004 book ‘The Abolition of Liberty’. But it is the reactive fire brigade policing that is unaffordable. Preventive foot patrol is much cheaper, requires many fewer officers and is hugely more effective. It is bilge to suggest we can’t afford it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

As you say,@mmicky1215 . But this was derided . I am increasingly glad that I am now old. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Ukraine never had any nuclear weapons — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Alas, it is so. As I walked through the City today I did not see a single patrolling constable on foot, but I did have to step urgently aside to avoid an electric bike ridden on the pavement at frightening speed. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes, .@coynejames the Rectors of St Bride’s have for many years worked hard to make it truly the journalists’ church, even the newspapers long ago moved away. The choir is very good, too. I often slip in for a few minutes.. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @kynohy: @CuckSwarm @Mr_Andrew_Fox @ClarkeMicah Thanks to you, I could find this article in the New York Times on Feb. 5, 1997: Opinion… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you. .@lgeonetwothree — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Nearly three years ago now. PETER HITCHENS: Is shutting down Britain REALLY the right answer? https://t.co/ChawTYodjh via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Les we forget. There was opposition to the Hancock idiocy from the start. But most would not listen to it. PETER HITCHENS: Is shutting down Britain REALLY the right answer? https://t.co/MgV6B6oRi5 via @MailOnline — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @Kulambq: @ClarkeMicah has likewise made powerful arguments in defence of learning poetry by heart. I wish people would heed his and pro… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Hey, .@ethan_h1988 . Powerful, eloquent and original. Do you despise the old? Yet, with luck, you will one day *be* old, and what then? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Exactly @gaytory. This is why some people don’t * like* progress.. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@petekang10. Signed copies of almost all my books may be ordered from Blackwell’s in Oxford. 01865 792792, overseas + 44 1865 792792 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@mr_andrew_fox. Revised time 5.00 PM — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@trundhawe1. The EU did not want Ukraine as a member and still doesn’t. really. But the AA , as well as being ungenerous, contained politico-military clauses. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I have never said there was @mR_andrew_fox. I think people should be carfeul aboutthe use of such terms. I do not know why you address this to me. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: .@mr_andrew_fox. I beg you to read this ( it will save you embarrassing yourself any further) https://t.co/hQGzrmzCnm — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@mr_andrew_fox. I beg you to read this ( it will save you embarrassing yourself any further) https://t.co/hQGzrmzCnm — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@adavidg66. Alas, this is a major problem with .@mr_andrew_fox. If any idea gets in the way of his beliefs, he becomes quite unable to understand it. But his obduracy helps the rest of to understand it better, as we struggle to explain it to him in simpler and simpler terms. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

OK, .@mr_andrew_fox , if you can't accept the hypothetical Mexico analogy (though a supposed German aliance with Mexico in WWI helped bring the USA into war against Germany, see https://t.co/7MG6lVzvzM) then let's talk about Cuba, which is not hypothetical. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

:@mr_nadrew_fox. Then you'll have no trouble saying, within a reasonably short time, which facts you regard as wrong, and why.(this second request left at 3.53 PM on Monday March 6) — PolitiTweet.org