Peter Hitchens's Blog, page 55

Here is the voting list from yesterday's decision to plunge Britain into another suicidal panic.

Some honourably abstained, but are not listed. The SNP did not vote.  Those who voted in favour of making their fellow-citizens bankrupt and jobless should not be forgotten. 

The Continuing Crisis. My latest conversation with Mike Graham on Talk Radio (2/11/2020)

I apologise for the shaky picture here. A last-minute computer freeze meant I had to use facetime at short notice. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTpJmT1KQrc&feature=youtu.be

PETER HITCHENS: The dictators have taken over - and we didn't even notice

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

There was once a famous Chinese executioner so skilful with his razor-edged sword that crowds would pay to watch him behead criminals. 

One day he came to a small provincial town where the authorities had given him a large fee to do away with a notorious killer.

He entered the arena and made several elegant and delicate passes with his weapon. The condemned man sat gloomily before him, looking unimpressed with all this fuss. ���Just get on with...

Lord Sumption's devastating lecture on the government's rule by decree and grasp for despotic power.

Can be watched and listened to here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amDv2gk8aa0&feature=youtu.be

read here:

https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/privatelaw/Freshfields_Lecture_2020_Government_by_Decree.pdf

 

 

Here I discuss the mad twisting of the clocks, and the continuing crisis with Richard Madeley on Talk Radio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhAW99gPcEg

PETER HITCHENS: Let's turn back time - to when we didn't mess up our clocks

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

The story is told (it may even be true) of the old woman who lived alone with her cat in a small wooden shack on the border between Russia and Belarus. 

One day, soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union made these two places into separate countries, an official banged on her door.

���Sorry to bother you,��� said the bureaucrat, ���but we need to fix the frontier properly now. At the moment, it runs right through your kitchen. We can���t have...

Time and Time Again - BBC Radio 4's 'Today' programme has me on fleetingly to talk about clocks

The debate can be found here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YgUXe10YwU&feature=youtu.be

or

The item begins at about 2 hours 53 minutes 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000nlkd

Today's (19/10/2020 conversation with Mike Graham on Talk Radio

Can be listened to here

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPLwdUcfR4g&feature=youtu.be

Britons are being sentenced to a slow, agonising death... by No 10's panic squad, writes PETER HITCHENS

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

One of the filthiest tactics of the Panic Merchants is to claim that anyone who opposes their strangling of the country is callous and cares only about money, not life. 

Dissenters have been pelted with slime of this kind by Johnson, the man who ruined Britain, and by his dense sidekick, Hancock ��� perhaps the first Health Secretary in history who does not know that malaria is spread by mosquitoes. They tell us we wish to ���let the virus rip...

My latest conversation with Mike Graham on Talk Radio (12th October 2020)

My latest conversation with Mike Graham of Talk Radio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdmzrT6wziU&feature=youtu.be