Peter Hitchens's Blog, page 31

Ayn Rand and the diamond bracelet - why I don't care who John Galt is.

An article on the Objectivist Ayn Rand and her weird novel 'Atlas Shrugged'

 

https://blog.acton.org/archives/123112-does-anyone-care-who-john-galt-is-anymore.html

The great lost opportunity of 1991 - my appearance on Colin Brazier's GBNews show

Begins at about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DnWvfGAsDo

The great lost opportunity of 1991 - my appareance o COlin Brazier's GBNews show

Begins at about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DnWvfGAsDo

We are using Ukraine as a battering ram against Russia. We stand and shout encouragement a long way off. They get bombed....

My appearance on Talk Radio on Monday 28th February

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvmddazUW3I

PETER HITCHENS: The West acts tough with Russia because we���re just too feeble to stand up to our real enemy��� China

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

So they finally got their war. But what are they going to do now? This is the most avoidable, needless conflict in modern history. It was nurtured and hatched in the small minds of foolish men. There was a compromise available, but because they were too proud to consider it, terrified civilians now weep outside the ruins of what were once their homes.

At this point, these noisy boasters turn out, as usual, to have big mouths and tiny fists. The ...

We have pointlessly made an enemy of Russia

The following article appeared in the Daily Mail this morning (Wednesday 23rd February 2022)

 

 

We have been utter fools. We have treated Russia with amazing stupidity. Now we pay the price for that. We had the chance to make her an ally, friend and partner. Instead we turned her into an enemy by insulting a great and proud country with greed, unearned superiority cynicism, contempt and mistrust.

I have to endure, often several times a day, listening to people who are normally perfectly se...

PETER HITCHENS: Granny gets her gun - from a bunch of shamelss neo-Nazis... not that the BBC would ever tell you

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

If the BBC found a group of neo-Nazis among some student Tories, or among Trump supporters in the USA, they would surely tell us about it, hot and strong. 

Quite right too. In fact, the Corporation���s horror and disgust at such people is one of the few things I absolutely share with them.

So why did they last week repeatedly broadcast an entire news item, featuring a group of undoubted, shameless neo-Nazis, actually wearing SS insignia on thei...

Chinese Communism clung to aggressive power through murder. Russia made a peaceful retreat. Yet we punished Russia and rewarded China

An appearance on GBnews

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FXJWExvcao

If Rusia invades Ularine We Will Know thst Putin is Stark Staring Mad

My appearance on Talk radio with Kevin O' Sullivan today, 14th February 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkP4fGFjZQo

What will become of the Coronation?

The Mail on Sunday today reveals that plans are under way for an altered Coronation service.

 

I'm taking this chance to republish an article which originally appeared in the (alas defunct) 'Standpoint' magazine two years ago.

 

It must have been around 1960 when I first saw the power of monarchy over the English mind, as it once was. It was a summer weekday afternoon, bright and windy, on Portsmouth Hard, that ever-scruffy patch of pavement, bus-stops and tidal cobbles where Pompey meets th...