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My MoS column in full, via Mailplus

 Can be read here

 

https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/comment/200233/johnsons-fall-was-a-coup-by-the-pointless-against-the-useless

 

 

My review of Christian Wolmar's excellent new book on British Railways, via Mailplus

...may be read here 

 

https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/books/199841/why-on-earth-did-we-kill-off-british-rail-and-its-sandwiches

Preview of my Mail on Sunday column tomorrow, via Mailplus

Can be seen here

 

https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/comment/200143/johnsons-fall-was-a-coup-by-the-pointless-against-the-useless

Our raucous but robust voting system, which guards our liberty, is in grave and immediate danger

Read the article here

https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/comment/199333/we-may-be-very-near-the-end-of-british-parliamentary-democracy-as-weve-known-it

My latest conversation Mike Graham on Talk Tv (4th July 2022)

...can be watched and listened to here

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKMk7_l4Gvw

 

 

 

PETER HITCHENS: Is there no way to stop the secret brainwashing of the next generation?

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

I will always remember the day they took away the history books. My small boarding school, on a rain-lashed Devon hilltop, had until that day taught us about the glory and grandeur of English history. It was a story of courage, freedom and the defeat of foreign threats.

But these volumes, their pages soft from use, their illustrations in wistful black and white, were no longer acceptable. They were gathered up and carted off. Instead, we were gi...

The secret indoctrination of our children in schools - a preview of my MoS column tomorrow

https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/comment/197934/is-there-no-way-to-stop-the-secret-brainwashing-of-the-next-generation

The police have failed. Let's replace them

https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/comment/196775/its-time-to-shut-down-the-vast-failed-arrogant-monster-our-police-have-become-and-start-again

My mlatest conversation with Mike Graham on Talk TV

Can be be watched and listened to here

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1DLa9Ouam4

PETER HITCHENS: Tribal voting that is stopping us getting the leaders we need

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

By-elections are such useless guides to the future. I used to report on them all the time in the Thatcher years, and the one I remember best was at Darlington in March 1983, where Labour���s high command secretly hoped to lose in a close fight.

Had they been defeated, they were poised to launch a putsch against their then leader Michael Foot, a delightful, kindly but hopeless and doddery old thinker whose curtain of white hair, walking stick and...