Peter Hitchens's Blog, page 37

PETER HITCHENS: Who had the right to deny a dying man the comfort of a priest?

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

Do we in Britain respect the beliefs of others any more? I was shocked by how furious I was when I learned that a Roman Catholic priest had been told by police that he could not enter the building where Sir David Amess had been stabbed to give him the last rites.

I am myself a very protestant Protestant and do not expect or wish for a priest to be present at the hour of my death. In my childhood, in my bit of Britain, Roman Catholics were still ...

My Review (in 'The Lamp' magazine) of Volume One of Chips Channon's diaries, edited by Simon Heffer

....can be read here 

 

https://thelampmagazine.com/2021/10/23/pumping-ship/

 

 

Last Rites, Common Sense and Freedom of Speech - my conversation with Mike Graham (18/10/2021)

Can be listened to and watched here 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FsquOx13ls

My Review on the new Galleries (on WW2 and the Holocaust) at the Imperial War Museum

...calls for a third new gallery on the evils of Stalin and his apologists

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10099165/PETER-HITCHENS-need-museums-Stalins-terror-world.html

An interview with Peter Whittle on my book 'The Abolition of Liberty'

...can be watched here

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Yj1PKk7ao

 

PETER HITCHENS: We're in the Age of the Curfew ��� and there's no escape

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

Prepare to be confined to your home again. Prepare to be prevented from working and put on a state dole. Prepare to have your education trashed. 

Prepare to be banned from travelling and required to show wads of paper or permit intrusive apps to be installed on your phone.

I can't say when this will be. But after last week's parliamentary report on the Covid panic, you may be sure it will happen. Next time it may well not be Covid. But that does...

PETER HITCHENS: BBC twists our history to smear decent people as stupid fascist dupes in new Sunday night drama Ridley Road

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

The distortion of the past is getting out of control. The truth is available to only a privileged few with good memories or access to crumbling, forgotten archives. So you can say what you like.

The BBC���s new Sunday evening drama Ridley Road is a perfect example of this. At first sight it looks like a harmless paddle in the past, into the lost world of suspender belts and British- made cars. 

But it is carefully designed to give viewers the i...

Some Thoughts on Justin Bieber's New Marketing venture

An article on the Spectator website:

 

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/justin-bieber-and-the-problem-with-commercialising-cannabis

The Lost World of the Fleet Street labour Correspondents

Often drunken,  raucous, largely left-wing, this group of journalists played a huge part in reporting and shaping views of a crucial part of British history. Now they have all but vanished. But I remember what it was like

 

https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/october-2021/hard-labour/

 

 

Are conservatives doomed? Of course they are. A debate in Mancheester on Monday

This was organised by the interesting and enterprising website Unherd. It is sort of adversarial (there is a vote at the end) and features me and Ed West, versus Miriam Cates MP and Professor Matthew Goodwin of the University of Kent. The chairman is Freddie Sayers of Unherd. It took place in a railway arch just outside the Tory conference cordon. 

 

 

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