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PETER HITCHENS: Can anyone explain to me why this was called evacuation and not surrender?

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

I laughed out loud in Marks & Spencer when I found that they are now selling something called ���Chicken Kyiv���. 

This is apparently just like their old ���Chicken Kiev���, only with added propaganda. I am told that there is now also a ���No Chicken Kyiv��� for vegans, without any actual chicken in it.

Not since the wild frenzy after the death of Princess Diana have I ever met such a wave of ignorant sentiment. Nobody knows anything about Ukra...

A preview of my Mail on Sunday column's main item

can be read here :

 

https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/comment/183812/can-anyone-explain-to-me-why-this-was-called-evacuation-and-not-surrender

My Spectator Article on the disappearance of 'Roads to Freedom', the 1970 BBC series.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-a-brilliant-bbc-serial-kept-in-its-most-secret-vaults

Why England should secede from the UKAY

An interview with BBC Northern Ireland

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0c7t2m2

Sex, Drugs and Sartre - the mysterious lost 1970 BBC dramatisation of 'Roads to Freedom'

I am interviewed on this (there's an article in the current Spectator) here at 54 minutes. As a special treat there's a clip of the evocative theme song 'La route est dure'. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzZ11ucO4v8

Why sit around wiating for the rest of the UK to leave? England should secede and restore its old standing as a nation

https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/comment/182926/why-england-should-leave-the-uk-and-declare-an-english-secession?collection=9629&&contentLayout=5pm%20Update

Why sit around wiating for the rest of th UK to leave? England should secede and restore its old standing as a nation

https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/comment/182926/why-england-should-leave-the-uk-and-declare-an-english-secession?collection=9629&&contentLayout=5pm%20Update

Proper debate on Ukraine and the Police on Michelle Dewberry's GBNews show. Watch it now

Here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aquxY4fcWA

My latest conversation with Mike Graham - free speech, education, Julian Assange, the monarchy and NATO

can be listened to and/or watched here from 66 minutes 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdCYd9ayjQE

PETER HITCHENS: ���Progressives��� who���d rather wreck the Tiger Head���s school than admit they���re wrong

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

A very few times in my life I have seen things so brave and unlikely that I have immediately feared that they would be destroyed and suppressed.

The first was in November 1980 when I saw Polish shipyard workers, armed with nothing more than Christian faith and patriotism, challenging the entire homicidal might of the Soviet Empire, in the city of Gdansk.

I described it as like seeing a fire burning under water, impossible, thrilling, like a wa...