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Peter Hitchens's Blog, page 33
February 2, 2022
Now is Not The Time
A version of this article was published some years ago in a magazine called the New English Review.
It has now vanished from the internet, so I am republishing it here:
Until the day I flew backwards across the International Date Line (IDL), I was clueless about time. When I say backwards, I mean that I went, in a very short and icy journey, from a late Monday morning in Providenya, Russia, straight into the previous Sunday afternoon in Nome, Alaska. I celebrated my crossing of the Berin...
January 30, 2022
January 29, 2022
PETER HITCHENS: Have Cressida Dick's Cake Squad joined the drama because they too hate us being free?
This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column
Now at last we can see what the whole shutdown frenzy has really been about. The BBC last week interviewed the Chief Commissar of the Welsh People's Republic (I think this is his title), Mark Drakeford.
They asked him about the sharp difference between Welsh Covid policy and England's currently more relaxed view under Johnson.
He replied: 'In Wales we still have a greater attachment to collective ways of doing things... We don't have the same ...
January 28, 2022
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January 22, 2022
PETER HITCHENS: Who is Labour's hero? A nurse who stopped a man seeing his dying wife
This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column
Who wants to pull Al Johnson down, and why? I���m no friend of the Prime Minister and would gladly have seen him fall in March 2020 when he launched his Maoist plan to close the country, trash our liberty and wreck the economy.
But at that time, and for months afterwards, I had almost no allies at all. Gosh, if someone had called me in May 2020 and said ���Downing Street is holding boozy parties while Johnson is ordering the nation into strict i...
January 15, 2022
PETER HITCHENS: We sat in a stupor as Boris shut us down over Covid - but now get into a frenzy about a party
This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column
Why do so many of you always get angry about the wrong thing at the wrong time?
How ridiculous it is to watch the nation in a frenzy about an office party, when it sat in dumb stupor through the greatest attack on its freedom in centuries.
Look, it is not the parties that matter. What mattered was that you were unjustly and mistakenly ordered to endure absurd limits on your life, by a government that panicked.
And you did as you were told. I...
January 13, 2022
January 8, 2022
PETER HITCHENS: If Tony Blair wants a gleaming gong, he can buy an Order of Lenin on the internet
This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column
If we had to mark the precise moment when this country finally disappeared up its own digestive tract, it was the day when Anthony Blair became a Knight of the Garter.
This title is a personal gift of the Queen, our Crowned and Anointed Monarch, the last true sovereign in Europe and the heir to a thousand years of law and splendour. She did not have to do it.
Because I cannot bear to believe any other explanation, I will assume that Her Majesty...
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