Peter Hitchens's Blog, page 38

The Police Cannot Unburgle You. They Cannot UnMug You. They Cannot Unrob you

My discussion with Mike Graham on Talk Radio on Monday October 4, mainly about the need to replace the police force. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFfD-zw31Vw

PETER HITCHENS: It really is time to scrap the police and start again

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

How does a person such as Wayne Couzens, a known drug user with an unconcealed taste for ���extreme��� pornography, become a police officer in the first place? How did he remain one? How is it that when this questionable figure was caught on camera exposing his private parts, nobody even followed it up?

How has what used to be the most civilised and subtle police force in the world lost the sense to sack such a person? How has it, at the same ti...

Here I explain 'The Day of the Nitwits', the takeover of the world by Green Zealots on Talk Radio

This was my appearance on Mike Graham's TalkRadio show on Monday 27th September

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBN4aWjD--8

The Day of the Nitwits: Remember the Triffids? Well, the Green zealots are nearly as dangerous, argues PETER HITCHENS

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

Are we at the start of some huge and endless decline? Or is there really nothing to worry about? 

Our current state reminds me of John Wyndham���s brilliant novel The Day Of The Triffids, in which small, even silly or enjoyable, events turn out to be signs of an approaching nightmare.

Wyndham sets his story in a very normal modern Britain. At first, people laugh at the ridiculous walking plants on the newsreels. At first, they gaze happily at t...

A slightly scratchy interview with Bournbrook Magazine on my tastes in music, films, books, buildings and people

Can be listened to here

 

https://www.bournbrookmag.com/your-life-in-10

Gas, Putin, metres, litres shoe sizes, Green Dogma and Barleycorns

My conversation this week (20th September ) with Mike Graham on Talk Radio.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVvkPlQgj0o

PETER HITCHENS: Holding the handrail won't kill you - but the Covid Hezbollah might!

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

How very sad that people travelling on the London Underground are tumbling down escalators in greater numbers because they are afraid to grasp the handrail. 

They fear that they will become infected, fall ill and perhaps die. But instead they fall and are injured or even killed.

As far as I know the evidence that anyone will catch Covid by touching the escalator rail on the London Underground is scanty, to put it mildly. But the evidence that i...

Reflections on the Threepenny Bit (revised and re-posted)

While going through an old chest of drawers I recently came across an old twelve-sided threepenny bit. Most people don���t remember these coins, but to me they were once part of daily life. One of them would once have bought you a national newspaper or a very small chocolate bar. Technically, they were worth a little more than one of the decimal pennies (always known scornfully as ���pee���) which were introduced during that year of revolution, 1971. The ythreepenny bit was a dead thing when I f...

My first appearance on Jeremy Vine's Radio 2 show for more than a year, discussing the Covid issue

...starts at about 9 minutes

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000zl42

'I am not myself especially well-educated' . I am interviewed on education by the 'Ideas Sleep Furiously' podcast.

Can be watched here

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzPf1ZdzryU