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May 31, 2021
May 29, 2021
PETER HITCHENS: What Dominic Cummings was really saying: 'Make me King!'
This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column
Now that the terrifying Dominic Cummings is the hero of the Left, perhaps we���ll see him at the head of whatever party takes over from Labour.
Maybe he could share the leadership with another enthusiast for using Covid as the excuse for strong, benevolent state power ��� the hardline millionaire communist Professor Susan Michie.
After all, his stated view that what the country needed was a sort of ���kingly��� dictator is not very far from he...
May 28, 2021
If you don't want your private medical records 'scraped' and given to third parties, here's what to do . You have only till 23rd June
Listening idly and irritably to the increasingly ghastly Radio 4 ���Today��� programme the other morning, I was galvanised by a brief item on an NHS plan to ���scrape��� my (and your) private health data into a database to be shared with third parties.
Which third parties? We don���t know. There���s an excellent account of the plan in the Financial Times, here https://www.ft.com/content/9fee812f-6975-49ce-915c-aeb25d3dd748
It���s been feebly publicized. The national panic has made it even l...
May 27, 2021
Why are people still wearing masks, especially outside?
The state of existing scientific and medical opinion and knowledge on face coverings can be easily found by studying the clear statements of the authoritative bodies and persons, made before the matter became a political controversy (all emphases are mine) :
The World Health Organisation, March 2020: ���There is currently no evidence that wearing a mask (whether medical or other types) by healthy persons in the wider community setting, including universal community masking, can protect them fro...
May 25, 2021
May 22, 2021
PETER HITCHENS: I remember inflation wrecking lives - and I can see it coming back
This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column
Most of the people in charge of this country can't remember what inflation is like. I can. And it scares me.
I experienced two major bouts. The first 1970s wave stranded my parents, who in the summer of 1963 had sold the family home and invested the money (wisely, I might say, by the knowledge of the time) after my father, a former Naval officer, took a job with a tied house attached to it.
Our modest semi in a pleasant Portsmouth suburb sold f...
May 20, 2021
A review of ���From Spare Oom to War Drobe: Travels in Narnia with my nine-year-old self��� by Katherine Langrish
A review of : ���From Spare Oom to War Drobe: Travels in Narnia with my nine-year-old self��� by Katherine Langrish
I have been busy with many books recently, one giant tome for review (a challenge to my resolve not to review any book until I have read it and taken notes on it from cover to cover), some for entertainment and some for instruction. I also had to re-read Nancy Mitford���s ���Pursuit of Love��� to compare my memories of it properly aginat the BBC���s lamentable, feather-brained...
May 17, 2021
May 15, 2021
PETER HITCHENS: How long before common sense is actually illegal?
This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column
Common sense has now been defeated in this country. There is really nowhere to turn if you still believe in it.
For years, many have assumed that a reasonable, conservative, Christian view of life was still upheld in several important places. But they have been wrong.
The Long March of the Left through the institutions of Britain has included almost all such places. The buildings still stand, the lawns are still neatly mown, the windows sparkl...
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