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PETER HITCHENS: Troops in Afghanistan? I'd far rather see some police on patrol at home

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

Here's an idea for all those people who like to intervene in places. Why don���t we intervene in Britain? If there was a campaign on the BBC to send British troops to the Moon, retired generals, MPs and the rest would keenly join it, maundering about our duties to Moon women etc.

Yet when it comes to intervening in our own country, you can���t get anyone to do it. How come those so anxious to keep troops in Helmand, or to bomb Libya, Syria and ...

My attack on the liberal Taleban on Mike Graham's Talk Radio programme

���There are more ways of controlling what people think and do than waving a Kalashnikov and wearing a turban���. Britain���s liberal Taleban and its war on full-time parents and fatherhood: My conversation with Mike Graham this week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGceFju5K7Y&list=PLTgNsAaFzbI0UjFYpSFhynq3Nhozc84ZH#t=01h06m20s

Found at last! The Lost Episode of University Challenge from 1999, Featuring me and our Current Premier

I have mentioned this before, what I think is the very first non-student episode of the quiz show , from 1999 (I don't have the exact date) . There are two teams : 'Tabloids' versus 'Broadsheets ' or 'Popular versus Unopopular'. 

One one side are Al Johnson, Richard Ingrams, Libby Purves and Decca Aitkenhead. On the other, My Good Self, Tony Parsons, Ann Leslie and Jane Moore.

 

Jeremy Paxman, sounding a good deal more public-school than he does now, is in the chair. Enjoy

https://www.youtub...

Found at last! The Lost Episode of Univeristy Challenge from 1999, Featuring me and our Current Premier

I have mentioned this before, what I think is the very first non-student episode of the quiz show , from 1999 (I don't have the exact date) . There are two teams : 'Tabloids' versus 'Broadsheets ' or 'Popular versus Unopopular'. 

One one side are Al Johnson, Richard Ingrams, Libby Purves and Decca Aitkenhead. On the other, My Good Self, Tony Parsons, Ann Leslie and Jane Moore.

 

Jeremy Paxman, sounding a good deal more public-school than he does now, is in the chair. Enjoy

https://www.youtub...

Found at last! The Lost episode of Univeristy Challenge from 1999, featuring me and our current Premier

I have mentioned this before, what I think is the very first non-student episode of the quiz show , from 1999 (I don't have the exact date) . There are two teams 'Tabloids' versus 'Broadsheets ' or 'Popular versus Unopopular'. 

One one side are Al Johnson, Richard Ingrams, Libby Purves and Decca Aitkenhead. On the other, My Good Self, Tony Parsons, Ann Leslie and Jane Moore.

 

Jeremy Paxman, sounding a good deal more public=school than he does now, is in the chair. Enjoy

https://www.youtube....

PETER HITCHENS: Want to see extremists destroy a nation? Look at our liberal Taliban

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! The liberal elite is saying it cares. Oh, how they care about Afghanistan. In fact, you might be forgiven for thinking they care more about Afghanistan than they do about Britain.

The really intense carers even have a special way of speaking to show how much they care.

Instead of saying ���Kabool���, the way British people have pronounced the Afghan capital for generations, they say ���Karble��� or even, in advanc...

A visit in 2006 to the Islamic University in Deoband, India

In 2006, during a visit to India, I managed to arrange a visit to the Deoband Islamic University, which had been accused at the time of having spread the ideas which motivated the Taliban. You may judge for yourself whether this was or is true. I thought readers might find it interesting. I and the world have changed a great deal since then. 

 

 

The year is 1427 and a blind beggar sits pleading for alms outside the arched college gateway that opens off the cramped, teeming, squalid, fly-infe...

PETER HITCHENS: So is this really an A-level 'triumph'... or a cruel betrayal?

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

I can still remember when a set of English A-levels were regarded as the equal of an American college degree. 

That was the era when the USA plundered the products of British state schools, especially scientists, in a then-famous 'brain-drain' of talent across the Atlantic.

British academically selective grammar schools (Scotland had a similar system) totally outperformed the comprehensive high schools of the USA.

Then, in an action that might...

Me versus yet another drug legaliser on GBnews

Here it is - this is what happens when William Hague calls for drug decriminalisation. 

 

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=829837211003061

Me versus yet anotjher drug laegaliser on GBnews

Here it is - this is what happens when William Hague calls for drug decrminalisation. 

 

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=829837211003061