Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@master_wibble, well, if you are so clever, what *is* the difference in principle? Both rest on a threat of state-sponsored lethal force to punish an attack and deter others from attacking. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/3 [email protected] don't share your belief in progress. We have not moved beyond murder( have you looked in detail at any murder case?). In fact we have more of them. As for forgiveness, we *cannot* forgive a killer on behalf of his victim, whose life was stolen. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 .@alexhallhall. Rather to the contrary, the prospect of being hanged in a fortnight concentrates a man's mind wonderfully well, and is much more likely to bring about remorse or repentance than years rotting in some jail. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@alexhallhall. It's a false comparison.The death penalty is not torture,nor a mob spectacle. As for repentance, long imprisonment tends to cause heinous killers to forget what they have done, or how did Myra Hindley imagine she could ever possibly be released(as she did)? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thank you @shaftedun.I agree, your image is much sharper, but the sentiment (later deleted by Mr Sikorski for reasons never stated) is just as clear in my foggy old photo. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@theoldfaith. There are so many obtuse, deliberate misunderstandings and misrepresentations of my position in this one tweet that I gasp in amazement that anyone could take so much trouble to say something so stupid. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: Wouldn’t it be nice if this mysteriously deleted tweet (by Polish Russia hawk Radek Sikorski) about the blowing up of the… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

'A Revolution Betrayed - How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System. You can get it from the publishers or you may order a *signed* copy from Blackwell's in Oxford 01865 792792 https://t.co/uCLr3UqEub — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: Signed copies of ‘A Revolution Betrayed’ and most of my other books now available from Blackwell’s in Oxford, 01865 79279… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Thak you .@caseyco231. Make sure the ink is dry. I ws in there signing them only two days ago. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@alexhallhall (3/3) I am not sure that I *do* badge DP opponents in this way, especially as so many of them are 'law and order' Tories such as Michael Howard. I just think most people on both sides of the debate have never thought properly about it, or researched it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@alexhallhall. What is the principle, on which you base your opposition to taking the life of a heinous murderer after fair and open trial, with the presumption of innocence truly enforced, under severe media scrutiny, and the possibilities of appeal and reprieve exhausted? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@alexhallhall. Thanks I'd rather hoped I'd made it clear that I oppose the death penalty under this country's current circs. Even so I think that, in better conditions, it could be a civilised weapon against cruelty and greed.The 'arguments' against it are weak and ignorant. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@zandook. Then write in to the newspaper and tell them. The important bit is the factual account below the headline. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@daveherman1950 Have you ever been inside a prison? I don't mean the visiting hall, but the actual place? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@DougJ7777 Are you being satirical? Every abridgement of liberty, from Blair's attacks on habeas corpus to the Covid house arrest, has been popular in this country. It was by contrast noticeable that much of the protest against Covid despotism took place in former East Germany. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Profound, but a bit Zen. Could you go into more detail, .@182_dunch? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Goya has witnessed the sleep of reason in hs own country. He knew how fearful it was. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@piedlemmings. Justice is the opposite of revenge, and indeed the citizen *surrenders* his freedom to take revenge in return for the state applying strong justice after calm due process. Weak justice leads to private revenge. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@richardbee01 Then you have not read it properly. See the section which begins 'So, the death penalty may actually prevent or deter violent crimes which might otherwise end in an opportunist killing...' — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@ShoaibMKhan Do you think it is 'perfectly decent behaviour? I certainly do not. But such things are already prohibited by ordinary criminal law. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@markd17 So what? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ShoaibMKhan It appears to me that the actions shown would be subject to normal criminal law whoever committed them (the ancient and correct principle of English law is that it is about what people do, not about what they think). So you miss with both barrels. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

One thing at a time , @stevematt73, but I am glad you are aware of the correrlation between marijuana use and crime. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Is the liberal elite's odd obsession with the Right helping to create a British Stasi? https://t.co/TafuQXkIig via @mailplus — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Well, .@tom_usher, reasoned debate certainly will not win if nobody attempts it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Signed copies of ‘A Revolution Betrayed’ and most of my other books now available from Blackwell’s in Oxford, 01865 792792 https://t.co/f2T0c65KQL — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

You can see tomorrow's Peter Hitchens column in The Mail on Sunday here now: Why do police obsess about the Right – and not fanatics who pose the biggest danger? https://t.co/TafuQXkIig via @mailplus — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

On the contrary, @barbadosj58 The Evans case is well-known and understood, and anyone involved in the investgation pr prosecution of a murder must bear it in mind. People go on as if such miscarriages are normal and accepted. They weren't and aren't. — PolitiTweet.org