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February 23, 2020
Who's Really to Blame for the 'Heath and Safety' obsession that dogs us all? A surprising answer.
My day is besieged with infuriating health and safety warnings. If I buy coffee at the station it says on the lid that the Contents May be Hot. I should jolly well hope so, just as I was rather hoping that the biscuit I have bought may contain nuts as its label solemnly informs me. As I cross the bridge to my platform a treacly, ingratiating male voice intones When on the stairs, please use the handrail and take care! If I had been thinking of using the handrail, I always give up the idea as...
February 22, 2020
PETER HITCHENS: How the ultra-left silent revolution took over Britain
This is Peter Hitchens Mail on Sunday column
Are you beginning to work out what has happened? Police do nothing while self-righteous ninnies dig up an ancient lawn in a beautiful city.
The same police force close the roads in the name of human rights, to suit the same arrogant, dogmatic protesters.
Not enough? Think this is just an isolated incident? No. Will you please wake up to the fact that this country has undergone a silent but deadly revolution, and the takeover of the country...
February 20, 2020
An Unusually Expansive Interview
This interview, conducted in Oxford a few weeks ago, touches on many subjects, some of them ones I don't often speak about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb6AEXxfFnc&feature=youtu.be
How Journalists Persuade Themselves to Lie, and even to Denounce the Truth - a Warning from History
The faintly ludicrous and shouty journalist John Sweeney has been attacking me on Twitter for comparing the behaviour of modern journalists, over the poison gas scandal, with that of the Moscow-based correspondents who in 1933 consciously lied about the truthful reports of Stalin's famine by Gareth Jones and Malcolm Muggeridge, so killing the story.
Mr Sweeney seems to think he is the owner of this story, thanks to various things he has written and broadcast about it, but I do not...
February 18, 2020
Should we boycott good art by bad people?
Should we refuse to view or pay for works of art or entertainment produced by talented people who have done evil things? E.g. Eric Gill's sculptures and Roman Polanski's new film about the Dreyfus affair:
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/02/evildoers-and-their-art
February 17, 2020
An Elegy for Didcot Power Station - its destruction a metaphor for the folly of our national energy policy
I have revised this posting to mark the final destruction, early in the morning of Sunday 9th February 2020, of the Didcot Power Station's 650-foot chimney, a monumnet to old-fashioned national economic planning, whose construction I witnessed in my teens, and which I never thought I would live to see destroyed. The demolition of this towering structure was apparently considered so necessary that it was blown up on one of the windiest days of recent times. The article below refers to the...
February 15, 2020
PETER HITCHENS: Who let the IRA gangsters take over Ireland? We did
This is Peter Hitchens Mail on Sunday column
I'm awaiting apologies from all the smug buffoons who told me that surrendering to the IRA in 1998 was a good thing to do. It brought peace, they said, ignorant of the true long-term price.
As the gruesome Sinn Fein approaches actual state power in Dublin, will these cowards and trimmers finally admit that they took the low road of superficial success, and left the real problem unsolved?
I am reminded (I often am) of an April 1940 cartoon by...
Kafka comes to The Hague
The Show Trial of A and B.
Kafka comes to The Hague
Why you should be worried
You might think that when two honest men, with nothing to gain and much to lose, speak the truth about a major scandal in a body which might one day decide between world war and peace, that the world would immediately do the right thing.
You would be utterly wrong.
In the movies, the dissenters would quickly be recognised as the heroes of the story, their bosses would admit to doing wrong. The media would...
February 14, 2020
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