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May 30, 2020
A Whitsunday address
I thought it possible that some readers might like to see, either for the first time or again, an address I gave during Evensong at St Hugh's College, Oxford at Whitsun 2014:
Here we are on the first of the great Christian festivals to have been abolished by the British secular state. Until 50 years ago, Whitsun - which everyone called it then - was a national holiday. Pentecost was a technical term, explained to me in the Scripture classes we still had in those days.
Tomorrow would ha...
May 28, 2020
A Library of Useful Links on the Virus Panic, for Thinking People
Here is a small library of useful links to various articles and websites. Their appearance here does not mean I fully endorse every word in them. I leave it to my readers to decide whether such things are useful or not, and to make their own minds up. Several of them express opinions I don���t fully share, but all, including government documents, will help in intelligent sceptical inquiry into the Virus Panic. They are in no particular order:
An examination of the new laws based on the pa...
May 26, 2020
Major News from Japan. Not many interested
There was huge news yesterday, very scrappily reported in papers which devoted acres to the case of the Durham Car Drive, in which a man was reported to the authorities for driving his wife and young son from London to County Durham, then driving them about a bit while there, and later driving them back to London. For some reason which escapes me, these actions could be a police matter and may cause the man to lose his job.
The important news was that Japan, an advanced country with several meg...
May 25, 2020
May 23, 2020
We Will Never Get Out of This Now
This is Peter Hitchens���s Mail on Sunday column
We will never get out of this now. It will go on for ever. We will not be free people again.
Even when we seem to be free we will be like prisoners on parole, who can be snatched back to their cells at a moment���s notice.
I think I now understand why this period has come to be known by the repulsive word ���lockdown���, an American term which describes the punishment of rioting convicts in a penitentiary, by confining them in their cells for...
PETER HITCHENS: The new authoritarian State���s dream has come true thanks to the repulsive word 'lockdown': they���ve made us all prisoners
This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column
We will never get out of this now. It will go on for ever. We will not be free people again.
Even when we seem to be free we will be like prisoners on parole, who can be snatched back to their cells at a moment���s notice.
I think I now understand why this period has come to be known by the repulsive word ���lockdown���, an American term which describes the punishment of rioting convicts in a penitentiary, by confining them in their cells for ...
May 22, 2020
May 19, 2020
May 16, 2020
PETER HITCHENS: Furlough billions? Just a giant payday loan in YOUR name
This is Peter Hitchens���s Mail on Sunday column
Think of Chancellor Rishi Sunak as a smiling salesman of payday loans, and you will begin to get the picture.
���Yes, of course you can have the money. Happy to help!��� he says as he hands over the wads of notes.
But it will not be the cheery face of Mr Sunak that you see when the time comes for repayment, but the hard and relentless agents of Her Majesty���s Revenue and Customs.
And don���t think that the repayment boys will...
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