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Falling out of Love with America

An article in the American Conservative. You may read it here

 

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/falling-out-of-love-with-america/

The Drug Liberalisation Lobby has Totally Taken Over

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday Column

 

A huge part of the misery and crime which plague our country is linked to the abuse of illegal drugs. Marijuana users, especially, are common among the culprits of horrible, violent crimes and terrorist acts. The families and neighbours of heroin users know in grim detail that these selfish people are capable of robbing those closest to them. Even official statistics are beginning to note that the dangerous drivers who kill and injure so many ar...

In the Sleep of Reason, Monsters are Born

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday Column:

 

The likely next President of the USA has his mugshot taken as he faces racketeering charges. He doesn���t care. He is not ashamed to be put through a procedure designed to humiliate him. The current President of Russia makes little effort to pretend that he had nothing to do with the violent death of his enemy. He too does not care. By 2025 it is quite possible that both these men will have control over huge nuclear arsenals. One of them alread...

My Review from the Daily Mail of Alex South's Impressive Book on Her Years as a Prison Officer.

Most people have pretty strong feelings about what prisons should be like. Hardly anyone knows what they are like. Half the population is convinced they are holiday camps where unrepentant villains feast on smuggled fillet steaks. The other half thinks they are unjust hellholes whose inmates should for the most part be let out. Neither of these beliefs is correct. The truth is in some ways quite a lot worse. The miserable result of this empty controversy is that nothing intelligent is ever done ...

What if it had happened otherwise? Reflections on a 40-year-old page proof found in my attic

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday column

 

Sifting through a box-file in my attic last week, I found myself staring in wonder at a creased and faded newspaper front page with the headline ���Tatchell Wins it!��� It described the victory of the famed homosexual rights campaigner Peter Tatchell in a by-election in Bermondsey in February 1983. But of course no such thing happened. Mr Tatchell, the victim of several rather shocking smear campaigns, was undermined by his own Labour Party and ...

On Mowing the Lawn, its moral and cultural aspects - my new column in 'The Lamp'

Can be read here :

 

https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/rank-yellow-rectangle

Not Much Time Left to Save Julian Assange From Extradition - So Please Act

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday Column

 

 

It could happen any day now.  After yet another brief, unsuccessful  court hearing, a column of vans and police cars roars out of Belmarsh prison in London and hurries to Heathrow, where a manacled, stooped and blinking prisoner is handed over to American officials and bundled aboard a plane bound for Washington DC. There he will face the strong possibility of decades buried alive in some federal dungeon, the sort of place intended for mass ...

Why I loathe e-Bikes .

My article in the Specator and the Spectator TV debate which followed it can be found here

 

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/real-cyclists-dont-use-e-bikes/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcpFJkZV0Kg&t=2929s

'Washington Putsch Bad , Kiev Putsch Good' . The mad logic of 'Animal Farm' Takes Over the World.

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday column  

 

 

Donald Trump is a dangerous yahoo who may well destroy what is left of the USA���s constitutional government before he is finished. I do not in any way defend him. But there is something almost comically hypocritical about the establishment���s shocked reaction to the January 2021 failed putsch which he is accused of inciting.  

 

Once again I must point out that the same liberal elite types happily condone a much worse putsch, one which ...

An article on the Marijuana Cult , in the 'American Conservative'...

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 May be read here 

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/revolutionary-state-of-mind/