Peter Hitchens's Blog, page 74

PETER HITCHENS: Ignorant BBC plans to rewrite Charles Dickens and put the f-word into the mouth of Ebenezer Scrooge - and it has no right to do so

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday column

The BBC plans to rewrite Charles Dickens tonight, complete with the f-word and a scene showing a character urinating on a grave. It has no right to do so. 

It is typical of this increasingly cynical, ignorant organisation that it should put four-letter words into the mouth of Ebenezer Scrooge, and invent gross and disturbing scenes in a drama that is bound to be seen by the young and impressionable.

Does anyone really think the...

The Penalties for Telling the Truth - an article about the intimidation and apathy which followed my publication of leaks from the OPCW

 

Some readers may be interested in this article about the response to my OPCW leak, from 'First Things' 

 https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/12/in-praise-of-telling-the-truth

 

 

 

An Article Comparing Alexander 'Boris' Johnson's Real Modern Radicalism with Jeremy Corbyn's Obsolete Trotskyism

Some readers may be interested in this, from 'First Things'

 

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/12/boris-the-new-blair

 

Fresh evidence that UN watchdog suppressed report casting doubt on Assad gas attack

Fresh evidence that UN watchdog suppressed report casting doubt on Assad gas attack

By PETER HITCHENS FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY

PUBLISHED: 22:49, 14 December 2019   

     
 

The global chemical weapons watchdog is facing renewed questions after fresh details emerged about how it suppressed the findings of its own inspectors who raised serious doubts about an alleged poison gas attack in Syria.

The Mail on Sunday can reveal that a...

PETER HITCHENS: A ���Tory��� victory? Pity they���re a bunch of Lefty bohemians...

This is Peter Hitchenss Mail on Sunday column

Well, hurrah. After almost a decade of fooling around, chaos, waste and confusion, we have finally saved the Tory Party from richly deserved doom.

The Conservatives have now replaced Blairite New Labour as the main Left-wing party in the country. This is great for everyone who loves the Blair programme of fervent, intolerant political correctness, a continuing war on whats left of the married family, useless egalitarian state schools and...

An Interview about Free Speech with a Liverpool University Radio Station.

Some readers may be interested in listening to this interview about freedom of speech. 

 

 https://soundcloud.com/thepoliticshour2018/peter-hitchens-on-free-speech-at-universities 

PETER HITCHENS: Terror is stalking our streets but it has NOTHING to do with ISIS

This is Peter Hitchens Mail on Sunday column

A crazy man kills innocent people and within minutes everyone, from Scotland Yard to the BBC, is saying it is Islamist terror. But is this true? 

Please explain to me, if you can, how the actions of Usman Khan could possibly have advanced any cause. 

His victims were gentle academic people of the sort who tend to play down warnings that Islam is dangerous to our society.

By killing them he did not make Islamic rule more likely. On the...

An Interview About the Scandal at the Poison Gas Watchdog OPCW

Some readers might like to listen to this interview about the scandal at the OPCW, shockingly ignored by so many in the media.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxeylNJT7ws&feature=push-u-sub&attr_tag=obxpuXjMElkTwEvA%3A6

Do the Ancient Divisions between Norman and Saxon, and between Roundhead and Cavalier, still influence our thought and politics?

 

A meditation,  for Unherd,  on why some people in England are keener on liberty than others:

 

 

https://unherd.com/2019/12/why-do-our-tougher-regions-care-more-about-free-speech/

 

No Time like The Present - My Voyage from Tomorrow to Yesterday

Some readers may interested in this article in which I explain my interest in the political aspects of clocks and time:

 

https://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm?frm=189908&sec_id=189908