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PETER HITCHENS: When Nato has its own Office of the Gender Advisor, you know wokery has won

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

Last Tuesday the British Army halted 'all non-essential and non-operational activity' for the six hours between 10am and 4pm.

This was 'to consider and reflect on the British Army's current culture and approach to inclusion and to set out how it will seek to improve both'.

Thinking this might be a spoof, I checked with the Defence Ministry who readily confirmed it.

I have not yet been able to get much information on how this went, though I am t...

Remembrance of Things Past. How my late brother accidentally sent Proust to the Taliban, and other stories

My latest column for 'the Lamp' can be read here

 

https://thelampmagazine.com/2022/02/11/lavender-in-a-drawer/

The Prayer for the Queen's Majesty - a discussion on Australian Radio

On why the 1662 Prayer Book is a subversive document

 

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/religionandethicsreport/peter-hitchens/13741442

PETER HITCHENS: If we get revolutionary Sir Keir Starmer for a decade, we'll look at Boris Johnson's years as a Golden Age

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

What would you like to happen next? I ask this question because I remember the ghastly days of John Major and remember how everyone joined in with the derision, just as it is now the done thing to denounce Johnson.

I don���t like Johnson. In fact, I think he is terrible. But here���s why I won���t join in. Because things could be a lot worse.

Much of the mockery of John Major was well-deserved, as is the jeering at Johnson. Mr Major was not muc...

Bishop George Bell is Innocent OK - official

 

 

 

Statement by Lord Carlile of Berriew, CBE, QC , given after the George Bell Lecture in St Matthew���s Church, Westminster on Thursday 3rd February 2022:

���Bishop Bell would certainly have been found not guilty by a jury in this case. George Bell is not guilty and that has now been recognised in the apology given by the Archbishop of Canterbury.���

Bishop Bell, who died in 1958 (and is absolutely not to be confused with the convicted sex offender Peter Ball) was accused of sexual abus...

Speaking at King's Politics, , King's College Cambridge, 7.30 PM, Monday 7th February

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Speaking at King's Politics, , King;s College Cambridge, 7.30 PM, Monday 7th February

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On the planned sale of Blackwell's lovely old independent bookshop in Oxford (from Unherd)

The article can be read here

https://unherd.com/thepost/farewell-blackwells-relic-of-a-bygone-era/

My discussion with Mike Graham on Talk Radio this week (mainly about Ukraine)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ficdi...

May be watched here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ficdi1ojtzs

ADHD - the Truth Goes Down the Memory Hole

This article was published some years ago in the New English Review. I am reproducing it here in case it vanishes, as other articles by me seem to be doing 

 

 

 

I sometimes tremble to recall the absurd feelings of total safety that sustained and informed me through my childhood. I trusted everyone. I never suspected any evil intent. I thought all authority was benign, all physicians competent. I even believed the commercials on the TV. Bad events were far away in places which would never r...