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Egalitarian quotas will not destroy privilege in our universities

This article was published The Mail on Sunday on 6th November 2022

 

You can be privileged in Britain, but only if you have the brass neck to pretend that you aren���t. Increasingly, parents who in   strain their budgets to the limit to pay private school fees are being punished for their thrift and responsibility.  Their children are rejected for Oxbridge university places and jobs for which they are well-qualified. Applicants from state schools are preferred for political reasons, as if this...

PETER HITCHENS: Every time I set out on my bike I prepare for war. It���s time for peace on the roads

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

I confess it. I am a cyclist. But no, I am not the sort of cyclist who squeezes himself into Lycra shorts. I do not wear a periscope on my head, or a camera, like Jeremy Vine, or radar devices. In fact, I dress quite normally ��� though I use lights at night and carry a reflective backpack so that I glow in the dark.

I signal my turns and stop at red lights. I pay lots of tax and much of it is spent on roads. I am insured. I am licensed to dri...

A report of the Ukraine debate at Conway Hall on Friday night, in which I took part

...can be read here 

 

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-now-the-time-to-make-peace-in-ukraine/

 

Here I am interviewed by three vicars on a number of subjects

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijdier2lbrQ&t=1s

I understand clocks because I once flew backwards across the International Date Line

My latest conversation with Mike Graham on Talk TV

 

can be watched and listened to here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP10SLPWoSY

Youtube video of my Roger Scruton Lecture

...can be watched here 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX5_eiZtDhg

Preview of my Mail on Sunday column tomorrow

Can be found here 

 

https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/co...

PETER HITCHENS: We have always had murderers ��� but now something far more cruel is in our midst

This is Peter Hitchens' Mail on Sunday column

WHEN Freda Walker opened her back door to let her cat out one night last January, she let Hell into her home. It came in the form of Vasile Culea. He seems to have sneaked in while she was not looking.
Not long afterwards, he subjected Mrs Walker, 86, and her husband Ken, 88, to a night of merciless torture. He was a retired electrician and former district councillor. She was a retired seamstress. They had come through all those decades, and might ...

My Roger Scruton Lecture, delivered at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford on Monday 24th October

Normally I do not write speeches. As this was a lecture, intended to last a full forty minutes, I thought I should write an actual text. The following is the script I prepared, though not exactly as delivered (especially the opening, which was a mess because I somehow lost the second and third pages and had to improvise) :

 

Before I begin, I must mention that the misleadingly philosophical title of this lecture - ���After Conservatism���- was devised only so that it could fit on a rather smal...

My Roger Scruton Lecture, delivered at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford on Monday 24th February

Normally I do not write speeches. As this was a lecture, intended to last a full forty minutes, I thought I should write an actual text. The following is the script I prepared, though not exactly as delivered (especially the opening, which was a mess because I somehow lost the second and third pages and had to improvise) :

 

Before I begin, I must mention that the misleadingly philosophical title of this lecture - ���After Conservatism���- was devised only so that it could fit on a rather smal...