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June 16, 2022
Why I won't blame the unions for Britain's rail problems
Sorry, but you won���t persuade me to get cross with the rail unions. This is because most of the train disruption I have experienced has been organised by the rail companies or the Government, not by RMT or Aslef militants.
For example, I have been suddenly bundled out of my homebound carriage on winter nights by shouting men and made to wait ages on the platform in a bitter wind, because the privatised company has decided to divert my train. I have been urged to go home and not travel b...
June 13, 2022
June 11, 2022
PETER HITCHENS: Biased BBC says dope should be legal and cocaine's a joke. Why should we pay for it?
This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column
Will Self is one of Britain's most famous takers of illegal drugs. He was sacked by the Left-wing Observer newspaper after he was caught snorting heroin on Prime Minister John Major's plane in 1997.
So why has the BBC chosen him, of all people, to be one of the favoured stars of a programme called A Point Of View?
Well, why do you think? In this Radio 4 show, the presenter can say pretty much what he or she likes for ten minutes. Almost all tho...
Why should we pay for a BBC that propagandises for drug legalisation?
A preview of my Mail on Sunday column tomorrow
June 6, 2022
Useless Police, how I might now be Prime Minister , and the Green Jubilee
...subjects I discussed with Mike Graham on Talk TV ths week (6th June)
June 4, 2022
PETER HITCHENS: Let's build a new police force that actually does the job we want it to do
This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column
This country is in many ways like a great and ancient oak tree, which appears majestic from outside but which is hollow and crumbling within.
There are many examples of this, from the Armed Forces and the great universities to the political parties, the Church of England and the courts of law. But perhaps the most striking instance of decay is the police force, as it is now not supposed to be called.
It is actually the case that it was once un...
Tomorrow is Whit Sunday. On a day just like today, Philip Larkin was late getting away to take the train, and wrote 'The Whitsun Weddings'
Originally I gave this as an address, at Evensong at an Oxford college (St Hugh's) a few years ago.
Tongues of Fire
A Whitsun Address
Here we are on the first of the great Christian festivals to have been abolished by the British secular state. Until 50 years ago, Whitsun - which everyone called it then - was a national holiday. Pentecost was a technical term, explained to me in the Scripture classes we still had in those days.
Tomorrow would have been a holiday, and not just ...
Build a proper new police force, then let the existing failed 'service' see if anyone wants to pay for its services
A preview of my Mail on Sunday column
June 2, 2022
Ukraine and Forgievness, a discussion on GBNews
... in which I debate these subjects with Jo Phillips and Maurice Glasman.
The Spite of the Metricators warns us that they see the Obliteration of the Past as Vital
All my life I have had to watch people rip up and tear down beautiful things in a strange search for a gleaming new Utopia. Yet it has always ended in desolation, a vista of treeless wildernesses and cracked concrete, like a giant car park. I have lived to see many of the bright, shiny, ugly new things that they built crumble and peel, and be demolished in their turn, having lasted less than a quarter as long as the structures they replaced.
In my childhood they had a great frenzy for destroyin...
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