Peter Hitchens's Blog, page 35

PETER HITCHENS: Don't rage about No 10's party ��� be angry that you couldn't enjoy one too

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

To save Alexander Johnson���s face, we must all cover our faces. I won���t repeat here all the many objections I have made before to compulsory masking, or explain yet again why these measures are of doubtful value, to put it mildly.

It is the motivation for them, an obvious attempt to change the subject away from Partygate, which irks me this time round. But it is also the weird upside-down, inside-out public and media reaction to all this folly...

'This is what you asked for. Now You have it'. The second part of my discussion with Mike Graham this week

Can be watched and heard here

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWO8xHsOm8E

The First Part of my Conversation with Mike Graham - Advent and Drugs

Can be listened to and watched here

 

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

My latest column for The Lamp Magazine

....is about the wind, and can be read here

 

https://thelampmagazine.com/2021/12/06/the-wind-goeth-over-it/

PETER HITCHENS: Posing in one of our few tanks, Liz Truss, is not the same as being an Iron Lady

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

I was there. We all gasped as Mrs Thatcher appeared in the turret of a British Army Challenger tank, dressed like Lawrence of Arabia in flowing prophetic white garments and a cruel-looking pair of goggles. 

No doubt she was wearing high heels too, whatever the Army might have advised her about how unsuitable they were in a tank. She was a woman in the tradition of Boadicea and the first Elizabeth, and she was not going to get herself up in battl...

Here I debate the narrowing spectrum of views allowed on the BBC, with Prof Tim Luckhurst, on GBNews

It can be watched here 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gjs_whdPIM#t=27m45s

My plan to set up as a pessimism therapist revealed in this week's conversation with Mike Graham

You may listen here

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egjyTO91TMs

 

PETER HITCHENS: The panic-makers long for another shutdown... but it won���t do any good

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

You can almost hear the BBC presenters drooling at the prospect of yet another of the shutdowns they long for and enjoy so much. 

Reports of a new variant of Covid, combined with the frenzy of medical repression on the Continent, have filled them with hope that England can once again be closed down for Christmas.

Once again, they have begun moving the supposedly menacing figures of ���cases��� (positive tests resulting from endless state-sponso...

My latest conversation with Mike Graham on the death penalty, war and mass immigration

Can be watched and heard here

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

PETER HITCHENS: Border chief had one job ��� and he didn���t believe in it

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday column

I like borders and I have always been glad to live on an island guarded by deep salt water. In the end it is the sea, and the Navy we used to have, which have kept us safe all these centuries from tyrants and conquerors.

I have visited 57 countries, and also lived with my family in two nations apart from this one, my home. I am absolutely not afraid of the world abroad and I think we have much to learn from other peoples. But in the end, I like i...