Peter Hitchens's Blog, page 49

Bargaining for a Parody of the Freedom we Once Had - my latest discussion with Mike Graham

From Talk Radio, 22nd February 2021 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_yx-xCPh6w&feature=youtu.be

PETER HITCHENS: Paradise? No, but the Britain of my youth was FREE

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

When I spoke out in favour of free speech last week on Channel 4 News, I was unpleasantly surprised to find just how unpopular this view now is with the fashionable people who watch that programme.

My great sin was to suggest that the Britain of my youth had been much more free than it is now. 

Oh, yes, they sneered, free for people like you ��� white, heterosexual males. They suggested that, for anyone else, the country was a seething pit of r...

A brief (and heavily-edited) discussion about liberty and its suppression, on Channel Four News

This was broadcast on Tuesday 16th February:

In full:

https://www.channel4.com/news/hysteria-over-free-speech-is-a-red-herring-says-writer-nels-abbey

 

Extracts

https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1362000264409075713

 

https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1362000264409075713

Where to find and read the government's sensible pre-panic plan for dealing with a pandemic

Here it is

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/213717/dh_131040.pdf

Where to find and read the government's sensible pre-panic pan for dealing with a pandemic

Here it is

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/213717/dh_131040.pdf

PETER HITCHENS: We DID have a sensible Covid plan... but copied a police state instead

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

Supporters of strangling the country always demand ���What would you have done?��� if I dare to criticise the Government���s wild, unprecedented policy for dealing with Covid.

They assume, as backers of crazy policies always do, that there is no alternative to mass house arrest, enormous police powers, Maoist travel bans and the crippling of large parts of the economy.

Well, there is an alternative. Sitting in the Government archives is a 70-pag...

How to watch the Hodges-Hitchens debate on the closing of the country

It may be watched here now 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjTk4djCveY&feature=youtu.be

The Hitchens vs Hodges Debate - a handy guide for viewers

Here are some links and notes to give the background and references which support the points I made in my Talk Radio debate with Dan Hodges.

 

This can now be watched here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjTk4djCveY&feature=youtu.be

 

I begin with a series of dated quotations from Mr Hodges��� past work, which show him expressing a wholly different position.  I also give a couple of instances where he quotes the mistaken predictions of others, a perfectly reasonable thing to do. But in Mr H...

My latest conversation with Mike Graham of Talk Radio, includes cycling, smears and who takes responsibility for decisions

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QMJz8tp-Bk&feature=youtu.be

PETER HITCHENS: Sir Keir Starmer used to demand we get rid of the Queen. Do you really think he's changed?

This is Peter Hitchens' Mail On Sunday column

The truth about the Labour Party and its ferociously radical leader Sir Keir Starmer is so obvious that nobody sees it. This is why the recent revelation that the Blair creature himself was once a Trotskyist came and went without any response at all.

Nobody in the media wants to believe it, so they simply ignore it. Since the days of the Blairites, Labour has been a revolutionary party, crammed with people who long to get rid of the Monarchy but ha...