Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Keep going .@artthainuruk . That’s a bit like saying everything is wet because it got soaked in water. You need to go one step further. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@hoenircanute. Yanukovych, unlike Putin , was elected in a properly contested poll. You know this, yet ignore it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @CeesaySV: @ColinBrazierTV Thanks Colin, I believe Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah also covered this report in his page in The Mail on Sunda… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ColinBrazierTV: Rod Liddle’s column in The Spectator is behind the magazine’s paywall, but for those who haven’t read it, he’s right to… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@hoenircanute. Are you here seeking to *excuse* the lawless, violent overthrow of an elected government? If not, what is your purpose? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The past recalled. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@AnonNowar22 Yanukovych was still in Ukraine when the Rada voted (outside the constitution and without sufficient numbers) to remove him. Either admit you don't actually *believe* in law and democracy (as I suspect is the case) , or observe them. One or the other. Not both. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ukurbanite. Claiming that people have failed to mention things, when they demonstrably have, is a sign either of lazy incompetence or dishonesty. Which was it in your case? Failure to admit the action, and to correct it, is a sign of cowardice and bad manners. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Twaddle . @ukurbanite. Those taking part in adversarial debate can reasonably asume that readers or audience are aware of the other perspective. My article, addressed to Mr Sandbrook, quotes his article in full even so, mainly to help readers understand my references. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ukurbanite is expelling pints of squid ink to try to cover up his stupid, lazy, prejuidiced error, and avoid apologising for or correcting it .@adam_stvnsn . That is all. You are quite right, though. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/2 .@ukurbanite. I make absolutely no claim to be impartial. I strongly oppose the US policy of eastward NATO expansion, as wrong & dangerous. But the idea that this makes me a partisan of the Russian state, a supporter of the barbaric invasion or of the tyrant Putin is tripe. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@ukurbanite Wrong again: 'He must have studied the tussle between the EU and Russia to attract Yanukovych to sign up for rival politico-economic packages, and the giant pressure *from both sides*.'(these words are emphasised in the original. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 No, .@ukurbanite, you attacked the article before reading it properly. Had you done so you would know that there was no such omission. Have some courage and some manners, apologise and withdraw. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 British Foreign Secretary William Hague is, er mistaken, in 2014 about the unconstitutional removal of Ukraine's President Yanukovych https://t.co/ckwz8BbBah In fact the required majority was not reached. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 President Barack Obama fudges the unlawful, unconstitutional removal of Ukraine's President Yanukovych: 'In the aftermath of President Yanukovych leaving the country, the parliament, the Rada, acted in a responsible fashion to fill the void' https://t.co/CtIvkOCf10 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@handles78892211 Here's the 'Five Boys' wrapper. courtesy of @memorialdevice. I think Fry's 'Five Boys' disappeared in the late 1950s or early 1960s. I'd also like to know what happened to Nestle's 'Superfine' plain chocolate, far better than its rival, now vanished. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@handles78892211 And I can just remember Fry's 'Five Boys' chocolate bar, with its fascinating wrapper. But they then gave up chocolate bars and diversified into Turkish Delight etc. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ukurbanite. Full text is here, so you can read it properly this time. https://t.co/essuigE1tE — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ukurbanite Indeed. Hence my words in the article :'Yes,it would be very hard to ignore the corruption, perhaps the most pervasive feature of life in Ukraine, at least comparable to the similar problem in Russia.' Read first,sweetie. *Then* attack. 'Disingenuous' my, er, foot. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Can anyone think of a reason why this might be happening? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

THank you. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@dcsandbrook says: 'sadly it involves lots of people dying, because that’s the nature of war'. How true. Negotiated peace, by contrast, involves many fewer people dying. Important if you're one of them: https://t.co/essuigE1tE — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@dcsandbrook : 'I have seldom seen a case less rational and more emotional. A lot of *other people*, far away, somebody else’s fathers, sons, brothers and husbands, will do the required dying.' https://t.co/essuigE1tE — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@dcsandbrook "'Appeasement' is what people call diplomacy they don't like. Nobody dared call the Yalta agreemment of 1945 appeasement, though it, and the accompanyng Potsdam horrors, was grotesque appeasement of Stalin." https://t.co/essuigE1tE — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@dcsandbrook 'I really do hope that I have demonstrated that your conclusion is at least a questionable opinion, rather than a statement of fact.' https://t.co/essuigE1tE — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@dcsandbrook 'Wars spread as they grow deeper and longer - a battle in Serbia leads to German bombers hurling high explosive on to the Thames Embanknment, to a massacre at Gallipoli and to shameful British surrender at Kut-al-Imara, followed by horrors.' https://t.co/essuigE1tE — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@dcsandbrook : 'This stuff sounds to me a bit like the Bolshevik morality I once embraced. 'Death’s bad, of course. But it’s the nature of revolution. We must be the unemotional engineers of history etc etc etc' It was bilge then. It is bilge now.' https://t.co/essuigE1tE — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Last week the website ‘Unherd’ published an article on the Ukraine War by the historian Dominic Sandbrook .@dcsandbrook. I believe it merits a response,https://t.co/essuigE1tE — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@Raj_5harma 15 years too late, like so many others who have finally limped their way to this blazingly obvious conclusion. Conservatism is not going to return now. Its roots were pulled up during the Blair and Cameron years, and the ground sown with salt in the time since. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@patokeefe1234 I should hope so. A Marxist training is one of the best ways of learning how to think and argue, and can be put to good use or bad. The experience also accustoms you to the likelihood that any thoughtful position on anything will place you in minority. — PolitiTweet.org