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December 16, 2022
A talk on my new book at Blackwell's Bookshop in Oxford, Thursday 9th February 2023. Book here
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December 14, 2022
December 11, 2022
Arrogance and folly that could yet send us hurtling towards nuclear catastrophe
This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column
THIS would make a good TV thriller: a few years in the future, with the world in economic turmoil and the whole planet in a tense, uncertain mess, French-speaking Quebec finally breaks away from Canada in a dramatic, overwhelming referendum.
Canada grins and bears it. But then Quebec���s elected government is overthrown by ultra-nationalist fanatics, after violent riots in Montreal in which Chinese diplomats and politicians openly support the pro...
December 8, 2022
A hopeless plea: bring back the Hereditary Peers.
It���s time to bring back the hereditary peers. Perhaps we could summon them from their remote and crumbling country houses by lighting beacons on hilltops, blowing enormous horns at dusk or projecting some sort of Bat-Signal into the sky. Or maybe a simple letter would do the trick.
They could once again climb into those ancient tweed suits, so thick that they stand up by themselves, polish their ancient brogues and set out by slow train to London to rescue us, not just from Baroness Bra, and ...
December 3, 2022
Lady Susan, you���ve been cancelled by Twitter. No defence is allowed. Goodbye
This is Peter Hitchens' Mail on Sunday column
In my case, the answer to the question ���Where are you really from?��� is quite complicated. I wasn���t born in this country. If my naval officer father hadn���t made a special effort to register me as British before he retired, I might well be stateless. Some of my forebears weren���t born here either. I am rather wary of the sort of people who are interested in the subject, and I���m not about to give you all the details.
Nor would I take kindly ...
December 2, 2022
The Correction of Museums is a Form of Censorship - the Tragedy of the Pitt Rivers
The most frightening thing in George Orwell���s ���Nineteen Eighty Four��� is not the torture or the naked terror. It is the obliteration of the past. This makes it impossible to know what life was once like, or to know if it has improved or grown worse.
So far, much of Orwell���s prophecy has yet to come about. There are no actual Thought Police, though there a lot of people who would fit well into such a body. The surveillance he describes is in its infancy here - though far advanced in China...
November 28, 2022
November 27, 2022
Vicars and Vuvuzelas, the Church Kowtows to the Cult of Football
The Church of England is suggesting vicars hold nativity plays in which the Three Wise Men wear football shirts and scarves , blow vuvuzelas and swagger off stage to the tune of ���Football���s Coming Home���. Instead of myrrh and frankincense, they present the baby Jesus with deodorant and muscle rub. The shepherds are playing football instead of abiding in the fields, and the angels tell them that the approaching Saviour is ���greater than Ronaldo���. The angels, I regret to tell you, also si...
November 21, 2022
The survival of Grammar Schools in Northern Ireland
The survival of Grammar Schools in Northern Ireland
Simply to round the subject off, I thought a note on the survival of Grammar Schools in Northern Ireland was necessary:
In Northern Ireland, despite Anthony Crosland���s profane pledge to get rid of all the grammar schools there, they survived Labour���s great purge of 1965, and Margaret Thatcher���s mopping up operation in the early 1970s. . The province at that time lacked any major socially radical political force wishing to promote compre...
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