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October 11, 2022
My conversation this week (10th october 2022) with Mike Graham on Talk Tv
....may be watched or listened to here(Liz Truss and comprehensive schools, marijuana and Russia)
October 9, 2022
Why would a conservative leader boast about having attended a comprehensive school?
This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday column
Why did Elizabeth Truss expect to be applauded for saying that she was the first British Prime Minister to have gone to a comprehensive school.
Weirdly, she is not the first to make the claim. Theresa May, went to a grammar school which was gradually merged out of existence while she was there. Yet she insisted for years, in reference books, that she attended a comprehensive.
Actually, if I supported comprehensive schooling, I woul...
October 8, 2022
October 5, 2022
October 1, 2022
PETER HITCHENS: If the Tories want to win the next Election, this is what they have to do. But they won't
This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday column
WHAT a grim political choice this country now faces. On one side, here is the Red-Green fanatic Sir Keir Starmer, and his frightening and despotic claim to be ���the political wing of the British people���.
On the other here is a Tory Party bereft of purpose and ideas, reduced to pursuing gimmicks and novelty, getting through leaders and slogans so fast that there is little point in remembering who or what they are. They just have time to find and...
PETER HITCHENS: If the Tories want to win the next Election, this is what they have to do
This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday column
WHAT a grim political choice this country now faces. On one side, here is the Red-Green fanatic Sir Keir Starmer, and his frightening and despotic claim to be ���the political wing of the British people���.
On the other here is a Tory Party bereft of purpose and ideas, reduced to pursuing gimmicks and novelty, getting through leaders and slogans so fast that there is little point in remembering who or what they are. They just have time to find and...
September 29, 2022
September 25, 2022
A��plea for civilised debate, rather than McCarthyite intolerance, on the Ukraine issue
What is Britain���s interest in Ukraine? Why are we shovelling weapons and equipment into that country, despite the fact that our national budget is stretched to bursting and our own armed forces have for many years been starved of money, men and kit?
If we were a proper open society, surely this question would be asked all the time. But it is not. So I am asking it now, as the Ukraine war threatens to ignite the whole of Europe and has already brought us closer to actual nuclear warfare than ...
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