Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Not when the nerve referred to is persisting in making statements contrary to observable facts. @fatuoustec. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @mr_andrew_fox Of course *you* may be looking for justifications for the Russian invasion, in which case that is *your* problem. But it is not mine if you abuse and delibertaley misunderstand my arguments in this way. I think you had better go now. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@mr_andrew_fox. No, the only way that it could have such an aim or effect would be if I had stated that aim. As I have been saying for more than a year that the invasion was a disgusting, crazy lawless action, that cannot be be so. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I operate what I call the presumption of intelligence, @mr_andrew_fox. I will debate with anyone who responds reasonably, honestly and thoughtfully. But once I conclude that my opponent has no intention of doing these things, I think ad hominem both justified and necessary . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@mr_andrew_fox . I see no figures or methodology here. Are they saying that in 2017 a Kiev-based organisation polled Donetsk, Lugansk and Crimea? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

4/4..@mr_andrew_fox How *anyone* of any sense cannot see that a violent, foreign-backed putsch against an elected government disenfranchises the voters, I cannot tell. When you have let me know, I'll resume. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/4 .@mr_andrew_fox. Much of that propaganda involves pretences that Ukraine is a proper free, law-governed country, a saint among nations, when in fact it is remarkably similar to Russia, a corrupt and unfree mess. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/4 .@mr_andrew_fox The events of 2014 are very much the business of UK citizens, who are being propagandised into a European war which endangers them and their homes for no discernible reason. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/4 .@mr_andrew_fox In my experience, real combat soldiers don't go on about it. Whatever you did, or jumped out of, your reading and comprehension skills are startlingly poor. Look carrefully now: I...am...not....trying....to....justify...the....Russian... Invasion.Clear now? 🔬 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes .@mrcfromc, I did, and if anyone had paid any attention then it would have worked. But the chance long ago passed. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @tryingtolearn. Moral rightness is of course easier for religious persons, who believe (as I do) that they are governed by an unalterable set of divine laws. But everyone else is a bit stuck. I should have thought all this was evident. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 @tryingtolearn. If someone is arguing about facts, he can be demonstrably right or wrong. If two people who share a moral position argue about the morailty of an action, one can be wrong (or both) . But opinions on most things vary and no *opinion* is necessarily *right* . . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/3 .@mr_andrew_fox . Can you name the 2017 poll of which you speak, provide a link to it, and tell me if it was conducted throughout the territory of Ukraine, as established in 1991? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 @mr_andrew_fox You *know* I do not seek to justify Russia's equally reprehensible actions. Why then do you keep repeating this false charge? Do you not understand the primacy of truthfulness in civilisation? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/3 .@mr_andrew_fox. You have a nerve. The forehgn-backed violent lawless overthrow of Ukraine's elected government most certainly *disenfranchised* Ukrainian sovereignty and also split the country. And you waver between condoning it or pretending it didn't happen. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Fear destroyed the senses of humour of millions in 2020, or they might have paid more attention to this brilliantly satirical 2010 Simpsons episode https://t.co/eD2pN5VO1h (mentioned in my Mail on Sunday Column, now available through Mailplus https://t.co/z7C6I1jlrv — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Worth watching just for the shots of the undelightful Oleh Tiahnybok posing beside Joe Biden, Victoria Nuland and John McCain abt 38 mins) , this is a fascinating film about Ukrainian politics. No wonder the Ukrainian Embassy in Paris didn't like it . https://t.co/lzWwnT6Ujy — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

You mean, .@Steve_in_TO that you agree with .mr_andrew_fox. This is not necessarily the same thing. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Interesting if a bit creepy, @aodanhill.Please define 'Russophile'. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The opening page, discreetly censored, of my new book about grammar schools ‘A Revolution Betrayed’ . Signed copies may be ordered from Blackwell’s in Oxford, 01865 792792. https://t.co/QZ4ROHTasm — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Reaping history’s bitter harvest in Ukraine https://t.co/saa8BQVTBR via @ipoliticsca — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@nottycurs What is your point? AS you rightly say., cars are (regrettably in my view) legal for mass use and private ownership. Marijuana is not, and there is a campaign to change that, which I oppose (just as I'd oppose the legalisation of cars if it were being proposed now) — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/3 .@mr_andrew_fox. Do you believe that supporting and condoning the lawless and violent overthrow of a sovereign country's legitimate, elected president is not an act of aggression? There must be a naivety pandemic raging. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 .@mr_andrew_fox If Mexico joined a military allaince with Russia or China, what *do* you think would happen? NATO ceased long ago to be defensive, btw, bombing Serbia and Libya proactively. Please read : https://t.co/suGTXqDlJa — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/3 Do you not read well, @mr_andrew_fox? I do not seek to justify or mitigate the Russian invasion, which I condemn. It is a foolish lie to suggest otherwise. Do you really believe that' If sovereign nations wish to join a military alliance, that is entirely a matter for them? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ChimeWhistle: @ClarkeMicah In the 50s there were two politicians (both became mayors) who worked in Stafford number 5 signal box. Such… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@chimewhistle. Why wouldn't politicians be dim? Is there any other trade so unprotected by examination and skills barriers, and so wide open to chancers and bluffers, whose rewards can be so great for so little? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@chimewhistle. By not paying attention when the hollowed-out parties were taken over by careerists, and by cntinuing to vote for such people when they should have abstained en masse. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Oh well, .@badsmellz, that's tragic. But I'm unsure quite how you can have reached your damning conclusion when, thanks to your sad phone, you haven't actually read it. Nice hanging out with you, dude. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Oh well, @badsmellz, that's tragic. But I'm unsure quite how you can have reached your damning conclusion when, thanks to your sad phone, you haven't actually read it. Nice hanging out with you, dude. — PolitiTweet.org