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July 30, 2022
PETER HITCHENS: Freedom for all means freedom for nasty people
This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column
Today I need to defend a person I do not much like. I will explain why I do not like him in a moment, but that is not the important bit.
What matters is this: if the Government can just reach out and ruin a man���s life, without any need of a fair hearing or a guilty verdict, then we do not live in a free country. This is what has just happened to the video blogger Graham Phillips.
The danger is that, because Mr Phillips is so hard to like, th...
July 24, 2022
July 23, 2022
PETER HITCHENS: The fake equality that defends anything but the right to family life
This is Peter Hitchens���s Mail on Sunday column
Why does a government which calls itself Conservative even have a Minister for Women and Equalities? The post was invented by the Blair creature and first held by Harriet Harman, that apostle of social and sexual revolution.
But when David Cameron, posing as a Tory, became Premier in 2010, he kept it on.
Cameron was, as he privately said, the ���heir to Blair��� and this was one way of proving it, so keeping the BBC ��� which polices the bord...
July 18, 2022
July 16, 2022
PETER HITCHENS: Electric vehicles? They���re still dangerous, polluting lumps that kill and maim
This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column
I am beginning to loathe the new smugocracy of people driving or riding electric vehicles. I cannot stand the way that they are so pleased with themselves, and expect the rest of us to love them.
It is of course a good thing that people have begun to grasp that the petrol or diesel-driven motor car is the most ridiculous form of transport ever devised. These ugly lumps of metal, glass and rubber wreck the health of their users, spreading back pr...
July 15, 2022
Call me an appeaser if you like. But n that case you'll have to call Churchill an appeaser too. Full text of my Ukraine article
As I am now about to be called an appeaser, I will point out that I am in good company. The biggest appeaser in modern British history was Winston Churchill, who handed Eastern Europe to slavery and oppression at the hands of Stalin at Yalta in 1945, in return for keeping the grisly monster out of Western Europe. It is not polite to mention it, even now. But it is so. Churchill did not especially want to do this, but he did, because the alternative - an unending war we might well have lost - was...
July 13, 2022
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