Peter Hitchens's Blog

A reply to my critics after a recent interview with @StigAbell on @TimesRadio

I have replied directly to a number of commenters here -  at

Peter Hitchens: How Putin can be removed from power | Thinkers

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrXYh7rzE0M&lc=UgxJ6CW4GWrwpN8quXN4AaABAg

- but so many of them said the same things that I thought I would write an epistle-general in response to my many critics, taking various accusations in turn.

1: That I am in some way a spokesman of or defender of Vladimir Putin. During the interview I condemned Putin���s invasion unequivocally...

Will We Always Know if a Criminal Has been Using Marijuana?

Last Sunday I suggested the likelihood that Axel Rudakubana, the Southport mass killer had become insane after using matrijauna, probably at school. I couidl nto state it as a fact, because I did nto nd do not know it to be. I thought and think it likely because TRudakubana's personaliyy chnaged dramatically around the age of 12, a common experience amomng children who are introduced to marijauna in Britain's chools. This tends to happen round the age of 11, when secondary school begins,  though...

What use are Honours from the State? My new column for The Lamp Magazine

May be read here:

https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/my-only-honor

Trampling Out the Grapes of Wrath - my new column for 'The Lamp' magazine

May be read heere 

 

https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/the-watch-fires-of-a-hundred-circling-camps

My review of a new biography of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, in The Lamp Magazine

may be read here:

 

https://thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-25/in-trays-out-trays-and-ashtrays

Comfort Me with Apples - my new column for 'The Lamp' magazine.

...may be read here:

 

https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/comfort-me-with-apples

The Savage Cartoon That has Influenced me All My Life

My latest (September 2024) column for 'The Lamp' Magazine can be read here

 

https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/crueler-than-execution

My Questions on the CPS errors in the Lucy Letby Case

These are the questions on the door-swipe 'mislabelling' in the Letby case,  to which I last week sought answers . Some of them are answered in my Mail on Sunday Column of 25th August. Some are not.

The CPS have said: 'A door entry system was wrongly labelled for a short period of time following maintenance and only affected one door.'

 

 
1. For how long was the door entry system wrongly labelled? When was the error discovered? Which door was affected?
 
 
The CPS have said : 'Once t...

The disappearance of Arthur Koestler - my latest column for 'The Lamp'

Can be read here :

 

https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/a-great-fog-over-the-past

My Latest column in 'The Lamp' about Grace Before Meals....

...may be read here

 

https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/the-river-of-god