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September 28, 2020
What Has Gone Wrong With Our Police?
This is an edited version of an article I originally wrote in January 2009. It seems to me to have become highly relevant after what appear to have been excessive actions by the police in London last Saturday, which I believe should be the subject of an urgent independent inquiry. The original can be seen here :
https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2009/01/the-onward-marc.html
'It's not debatable,' they bawled. My chilling encounter with Britain's jack-booted paramilitary police
Thi...
September 27, 2020
Steven Rainey on BBC Radio Ulster gives me a fair chance to state my case.
My segment begins just after 12 noon (about 1hr 4 minutes) :
September 26, 2020
PETER HITCHENS: Boris' great idea? Burn down the house TWICE to get rid of a wasps' nest, then stand in the ruins and blame everyone but himself for this futile catastrophe
This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column
The Prime Minister is like a man who finds a wasps��� nest in his house ��� and burns the house down to get rid of it.
The wasps, having more sense than him, flew off as soon as they felt the heat. But the house is gone.
Now he stands by the smouldering ruins, blaming everyone but himself for this futile catastrophe.
I suspect that some of the things he said on Tuesday night will bring him down, especially the outrageous threat to use troops....
September 23, 2020
Being Kind to Matt Hancock. What does 'every eight days' mean?
How much can we rely on government statistical claims in the current atmosphere, in which terrifying charts are published which are plainly guesswork and an official claim that Britain could face 50,000 Covid infections a day turns out to have been based on studies that involved just a few hundred positive cases?
In my inexpert way, I thought I would take a look at another example of a frightening assertion made recently by a person in authority. In the article below I have taken literally the ...
September 21, 2020
My latest (21st September 2020) conversation with Mike Graham on Talk Radio
The first 15 minutes are taken up by the government's latest press conference, which began at the same time as my segment.
September 19, 2020
PETER HITCHENS: Can���t we put these power-mad clowns of the Johnson Junta in a nice rest home?
This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column
Months ago, I predicted that we would all come to hate the narrow, bossed-about new life the Government wants to force us to live. I was wrong.
Most people have far too readily accepted limits to their lives which the world���s tyrannies would once have hesitated to impose on their citizens.
Well, have you had enough yet? Because the Johnson Junta has only one tool in its box. That tool is restriction.
And it has only one aim, one that has n...
September 17, 2020
An interview with a group of Australian Christians in Sydney
Some readers may be interested in this interview, which covers my childhood, education, political and religious development.
September 14, 2020
September 13, 2020
My appearance on BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House today...
....debating with Professor Linda Bauld the government's Covid policy, can be heard here
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