Peter Hitchens's Blog, page 36

Archbishop Justin Welby finally climbs down over his claim of a 'Significant Cloud' over George Bell

The following statement was published on Wednesday Novermber 17th by The Church of England (the link to the official version is at the bottom). Some of you will recall my Mail on Sunday column of October 31,

https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2021/10/the-kremlin-had-more-of-a-conscience-than-welby-the-hypocrite.html

in which I attacked the archbishop for his refusal to retract these words. 

 

I cannot say how delighted I am by this response , and I here praise Justin Welby for his coura...

PETER HITCHENS: I've lived in a truly corrupt country ��� that's why I know Britain isn't one

This is Peter Hitchens���s Mail on Sunday column

This is not a corrupt country. Corruption exists, and often it is driven much more by friendship than by money. 

I have little doubt that we will become much more corrupt in the years to come because the forces that restrain it are growing weaker.

But it would be very silly if we tried to decide our political future on the basis that one of the big parties was more corrupt than the other.

Both of those parties are terrible, but corruption is n...

On driving licences, becoming 70 , death and the last rites

From 'The Lamp' magazine:

 

https://thelampmagazine.com/2021/11/10/as-ye-are-now/

Sleaze, the Green Queen and the left-wingness of Al Johnson - my latest conversation with Mike Graham

Took place on Monday 8th November and can be watched and listened to here

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vvYI_g-eTI

PETER HITCHENS: Our Green Queen has just made a terrible mistake by taking a side in politics

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

I have just stopped supporting the monarchy. I can���t do it any more. I am not a republican, or anything silly like that. I would like a proper monarchy. But the House of Windsor���s total mass conversion to Green orthodoxy has destroyed the case for this particular Royal Family.

The whole point of the Crown is that it does not take sides in politics. Yet in the past few days, three generations of Royals have given their support to one of the m...

Climate and other matters in my weekly conversation with MikeGraham on Talk Radio, 1st November 2021

Can be watched and listened to here

 

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

The Kremlin had more of a conscience than Welby the hypocrite

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

EVEN the Evil Empire of the Soviet Union eventually admitted that it had wrongly smeared and ruined those it had once accused of terrible crimes.

The victims of screaming one-sided show trials, later murdered or starved to death, and in one terrible case, hanged, cremated and their ashes used to grit the freezing roads, all of them were in the end exonerated.

So why does Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, struggle so to admit he made a ter...

P.G. Wodehouse on 'Daylight Saving Time'. I find a new ally in the battle against clock-fiddling

You may read this on Unherd ,

here

https://unherd.com/thepost/when-will-state-sponsored-clock-twiddling-end/?=frpo

What is the cause for the Growing Number of Rampage Killings in the World since 1960? I debate with Rod Liddle

You can watch it here (about 20 minutes in ) 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAIxKxh5A5s

The Day Rod Liddle Admitted to Me that He Was Wrong.

You may read all about it here

 

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-link-between-drugs-terrorism-and-mental-illness