Peter Hitchens's Blog, page 62
June 25, 2020
What the Government Actually Thinks About Muzzles
���The evidence of the benefit of using a face covering to protect others is weak and the effect is likely to be small���.
HM Government
From ���Keeping workers and customers safe during COVID-19 in restaurants, pubs,
bars and takeaway services. Covid-19 secure guidance for employers, employees
and the self-employed 23 June 2020���
P.35
June 23, 2020
June 22, 2020
Lord Sumption's Superb Article in The mail on Sunday, 21st June
I thought some people might have missed this excellent article, and so reproduce it here in full:
THESE PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY ARE DOING
By Jonathan (Lord) Sumption
DOES the Government have a policy for coronavirus? Indeed it does. In fact, it has several. One for each month of the year, all mutually inconsistent and none of them properly thought through. Sometimes, governments have to change tack. It shows that they are attending closely to a changing situation. But this crisis ha...
June 20, 2020
PETER HITCHENS: I've seen hamsters more intimidating than this mob who shouted at me - but what is frightening is their intolerance of all other opinions
This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column
A person wearing a face-muzzle, a baseball cap and socks adorned with the words ���Hotter than Hell��� appeared at my side.
He or she (I had better be careful not to assign a gender) spoke sharply to me, like someone with power: ���Why have you chosen to stand here?��� For a moment, I was taken in by the air of authority, but recovered myself and asked: ���Who are you?���
To this I received no useful reply, but the person continued: ���A lot...
June 18, 2020
June 15, 2020
June 13, 2020
PETER HITCHENS: As the Left now controls every lever of power, we face nothing less than Regime Change
What we now face is regime change. That is why these strange crowds have begun to gather round ancient and forgotten monuments, demanding their removal and destruction.
They do not know what they want, or understand what they are destroying. But that no longer matters. They think their moment has come, and they may well be right.
This is why the memorial to Winston Churchill, and the Cenotaph itself, were shamefully boarded up on Thursday night ��� an act of appeasement if ever there truly w...
June 11, 2020
An Interview with 'Providence' Magazine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh4ohVP6G_M
I gave this interview in response to some criticisms which had appeared in the magazine which I thought unfair and mistaken.
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