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We will not Help the Poor of the World by Impoverishing our own Country

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday Column

 

Did Jesus want Britain to increase its population by seven million people in 20 years? That is the number of migrants who have come to this country in that period, utterly and permanently changing the country in many ways.   

 

I had no idea that Our Lord had any such policy. In fact, my searches of the scriptures reveal no clear guidance on mass immigration as such. On the other hand, I am quite sure that both Labour and Tory governments have...

My latest column in 'The Lamp' on not having a sense of humour

...may be read here 

 

 https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/into-the-ditch

Can the Monarchy Survive When Nobody Understands it?

Was this Coronation a beginning or an end? As I watched its mostly ancient ceremonies, a briefly-opened door into the astonishing past, I was often moved. It was full of glory, though rather melancholy glory. The settings by William Byrd of the  prayer ���Prevent us, O Lord��� and of the Gloria are among the greatest music ever written. Likewise, Handel���s ���Zadok the Priest��� seems for a few moments to have discovered the actual heartbeat of the universe.  But I was repeatedl...

It will be harder for God to Save the King than it was for God to Save the Queen

My latest article in Compact Magazine is on the Coronation:

 

 https://compactmag.com/article/why-i-still-say-god-save-the-king

The Sexual Revolution meant liberation for Selfish, Nasty Men. And, Why I oppose Barry Humphries's Suburbophobia

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday column

 

Wasn���t Sir Keir Starmer taught to respect women during his upbringing? The Labour leader now says he wants schools to ���bring about cultural change��� and put a stop to the loutish mistreatment of girls and women by coarse boys and men. Everyone will agree with the goal. But will classroom lectures achieve it?  

 

Let us hope, for instance, that this will be more successful than half a century of sex education has been. This project, we of...

My Mail on Sunday Column from Sunday 23rd April

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday column  

Is the Coronation going to to be a flop? It is impossible to be sure as we know so little about it, but far too many of the signs are bad. How can things go well when the official food for the occasion is a sort of vegetarian flan? Will our new King be dedicating his life to God, as his mother did, or to Net Zero, as he seems to want to do? How Christian will the ceremony be? I am all for welcoming other faiths, but it is our Christian laws, cust...

A Review of John le Carre's Collected Letters, from 'The Lamp Magazine'

May be read here :

https://thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-16/the-double-life-of-john-le-carr%C3%A9

Why are the SAS in Ukraine? And how Joe Biden's visit to Ireland finished off the 'Special Relationship'

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday Column

 

Who decided to send British troops to Ukraine? What are they doing there? What would happen were they to be killed by Russian forces, or captured by them? And what was a British surveillance plane, capable of carrying 30 people, doing over the Black Sea last September, when a bungling Russian pilot almost shot it down, only failing because his missile was a dud? What would have happened if the missile had worked, and many British servicemen and ...

William Hague, the Ukraine and the Kiev Putsch.

Below is my reply to a letter sent to me by Lord Hague after I suggested that his acocunt of the removal of President Yanukovych of Ukraine , given to the House of Commons in February 2014 was, er, inadequate.

 

                      

 

 

 

                                                                               14 April 2023

Dear Lord Hague,

Thank you for your letter of 11 April (reproduced below, in blue).

 

You said:

 

���Thank you for your letter about Ukraine.

My own vie...

How I learned not to believe things just because everyone else did - Richard III and the Daughter of Time

You may read this article here:

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11966835/PETER-HITCHENS-reveals-detective-novel-taught-NEVER-believe-says.html