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This is Peter Hitchens' Mail On Sunday column
Commentators take what they want to from scandals. Already this is happening to the debate about the mass abuse of young girls in Oxford.
The Left are blaming the law for being too weak on rape. The Right are blaming political correctness. Each has a point. But it goes deeper than that and both sides should admit it.
I have lived in Oxford (with some...
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The Rage against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith
— published 2009 — 9 editions |
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The Abolition of Britain: From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana
— published 1999 — 5 editions |
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The Broken Compass
— published 2009 — 4 editions |
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The Abolition of Liberty: The Decline of Order and Justice in England
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A Brief History Of Crime
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The War We Never Fought: The British Establishment's Surrender to Drugs
— published 2012 — 3 editions |
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Monday Morning Blues
— published 2000 |
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“Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine have found out by being on the edge of conversations where Americans assumed no Englishmen were listening.
And it is the English, specifically, who are the targets of this. Few Americans have heard of Wales. All of them have heard of Ireland and many of them think they are Irish. Scotland gets a sort of free pass, especially since Braveheart re-established the Scots' anti-English credentials among the ignorant millions who get their history off the TV.”
― Peter Hitchens
And it is the English, specifically, who are the targets of this. Few Americans have heard of Wales. All of them have heard of Ireland and many of them think they are Irish. Scotland gets a sort of free pass, especially since Braveheart re-established the Scots' anti-English credentials among the ignorant millions who get their history off the TV.”
― Peter Hitchens
“Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?”
― Peter Hitchens
― Peter Hitchens
“Far too many people—many of them academics, many politicians—continue to jabber about a supposed 'special relationship' between our two countries.
I used to think that no such thing existed. Recently, I have become convinced that it does, and that it is in fact a Specially Bad Relationship.”
― Peter Hitchens
I used to think that no such thing existed. Recently, I have become convinced that it does, and that it is in fact a Specially Bad Relationship.”
― Peter Hitchens
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