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PETER HITCHENS: The Queen is dead... now Britain-haters will rejoice in destroying her country

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

Well now, here it comes, the next stage of the revolution. The last echo of the last lament had hardly died away before the Britain-haters were back at work.

There was an exaggerated politeness to the late Queen until her funeral was over.

Clergy who normally enjoy addressing God matily as ���You��� and inflicting funky go-ahead prayers and jerky hymns on their remaining flocks had to say ���Thou��� and ���Thee���.

A largely Godless establishm...

My MoS column tomorrow (25/9/22)

Can be found here 

 

 https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/comment/225245/the-queen-is-dead...-now-britain-haters-will-rejoice-in-destroying-her-country

A Spectator podcast on Ukraine

Can be watched here 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6Oz9KuLrhk

A discussion on the Ukraine issue on GBnews

Begins at about ten mintes in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXh6krtORLw

The lying-in-state, my experiences as one of those who queued to see it

I suppose that I had more or less taken leave of my senses as I set out for Bermondsey on Saturday to queue for the Queen���s lying-in-state. The decision was a mixture of bravado, instinct and careful plotting. Hoping to evade various bans and restrictions, I had turned my old waxed jacket into an item of luggage, its huge pockets stuffed with books, in case of boredom, and weighed down with a phone bank and a wriggling mass of wires, because my mobile would certainly go flat on me during the l...

PETER HITCHENS: Paying my respects to the Queen, I saw the glory of nations, the majesty of death and its inevitability, the distillation of 1,000 years of kingship, still astonishingly alive in an age which neither understands nor much likes it

This is Peter Hitchens' Daily Mail column

I suppose that I had more or less taken leave of my senses as I set out for Bermondsey on Saturday afternoon to queue for the Queen���s lying-in-state.

The decision was a mixture of bravado, instinct and careful plotting. Hoping to evade various bans and restrictions, I had turned my old waxed jacket into an item of luggage, its huge pockets stuffed with books, in case of boredom, and weighed down with a phone bank and a wriggling mass of wires, becau...

My Mail on Sunday column 18th September 2022. Restoring Things that are Gone to Decay:

 

When King Charles comes to be crowned I very much hope that he will promise, as his mother did in 1953, to ���restore the things that are gone to decay��� and ���maintain the things that are restored���. I have some particular things in mind. But the trouble is that so many things have gone to decay in the last 70 years, and I am worried by reports that the Coronation Service - which contained these words 69 years ago - may itself be revised. Are such ideas still acceptable?  

 

In this com...

A Youtube interview on the political implications of the new reign, the need to replace the police and the necessity of free speech for republicans

can be watched here 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hRzVL3IoI8

The profoundly conservative and Christian nature of monarchy - why republicans don't like it, and why I do.

My latest column in 'The Lamp'

 

https://thelampmagazine.com/2022/09/16/things-that-are-gone-to-decay/

An interview on the dangers to the monarchy, the necessity of free speech and the need to replace the failed institution known as the 'police'

Can be watched here 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hRzVL3IoI8