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December 17, 2020
17 years ago Saddam Hussein had just been captured and I was on my way across the desert to to Baghdad, to write this...
'MISERABLE makeshift tombstones, hacked out of polystyrene, marked the place where they had hurriedly buried the body-parts hosed from the road in the poor suburb of Al Bayaah.
A grimy, tense crowd stood and stared among the puddles as rescue workers gathered up the debris from yet another explosion in Baghdad. I asked them who they blamed.
'The Americans,' replied Abdullah, an angry, hostile man who looked ready to blame me as well. 'It is all their fault. This trouble and everything else.' T...
December 15, 2020
December 13, 2020
Our Politicians Must have Passed an Examination in Stupidity to obtain their Positions.
In 30 years, it will be much easier to say this, but this must be the stupidest era there has ever been in British politics. Oh, yes, some modern politicians can make classical allusions or dance nimbly about when interviewed.
But they do not really know anything, or understand anything. They live entirely in the present. They know little of other countries and less about the past. They idolise Winston Churchill but are in fact ignorant about him or his era, and the huge price...
December 7, 2020
December 5, 2020
PETER HITCHENS: In 20 years' time Eton will be just a pricey Bog Lane comprehensive flying the Black Lives Matter flag on its gatehouse
This is Peter Hitchens���s Mail on Sunday column
The cleverest revolutions are the ones where everything looks the same from the outside, but it has been totally altered on the inside.
People find it hard to oppose or resist changes they cannot actually see. In recent years, the police, the BBC and the National Trust, for instance, have been transformed into nests of wokeness.
But it wasn���t obvious until it was far too late to do anything. So nobody did.
Most do not spot...
An evening with a group of 'recovering traumatised Corbynistas'
Some readers may be interested in this discussion (my segment starts at about 27 mins 45 secs) :
December 3, 2020
December 2, 2020
'Unconventional Wisdom' now published at Amazon
Readers may like to know that I have now published a small collection of articles from this blog, combined with some book reviews and other articles for various magazines, in a small volume under the title 'Unconventional Wisdom'. Like 'Short Breaks in Mordor', it is available as a paperback and as an e-book.
Readers here will have seen much of the content already. The book is really aimed at those who have never found their way to this blog, in the hope that they will realise what they have...
November 30, 2020
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