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Is it time to return to natural organic time and stop fiddling with the clocks?

A Spectator podcast debate between me and alleged libertarian Christopher Snowdon, of the IEA :

 

https://www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/is-it-time-to-stop-turning-back-the-clocks/

Looking Back on the Iraqi War and what - if anything - we learned from it.

An article from the American Conservative which can be read here

 

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/one-continuous-war/

Almost 20 years ago I filed this report from newly 'liberated' Baghdad . You may find it interesting

A visit to Baghdad in May 2003

Each evening, as night falls on Baghdad, the Middle Ages return.

This great modern city has been stripped of almost all the essentials of civilisation. By day it is not quite so obvious. But when the electricity shuts down for the night and there is only moonlight to see by, you understand that the modern world we think of as normal is built on a very thin crust.

All across the vast cityscape, residents are sawing down palm trees to build barricades across their...

The only form of child-care which the state does not help or subsidise is the sort where a mother brings up her own sons and daughters. �� ��

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday Column

 

How bizarre that the keystone of a supposedly conservative budget is a plan to help women abandon their children and go out to work. Anti-family socialists and dogmatic hard-line feminists - often the same people ��� have long sought to turn women into wage-slaves. The old Communist East Germany managed to cram 90% of its women into factories and offices in the 1980s, and counted it a great triumph. Some modern feminists admire this to this day...

A New Debate on the Ukraine Issue (with no chairman). Talk TV brought me and Cormac Smith together to discuss the issue

I object to the title, which suggests that I am urging a Ukrainian surrender, when I am not. There is no reason why Ukraine should surrender...

you may watch it here

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHhOFRCGLvA

The Melancholy Decline of the Pedestrian Crossing. My column for 'The Lamp' Magazine

May be read here 

 

https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/flashing-orange-globes

End this crude smear against conservatives - Hitler's Nazis were in fact Left-wing racists

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday Column

The real problem with Gary Lineker is that he knows as much about politics as I know about football. But, while you will never catch me giving my opinions on soccer, Mr Lineker thinks his TV and advertising fame qualifies him to discuss politics and history. 

 

Actually, it is amazing how little so many people know about these things. Although modern school history seems to cover nothing apart from the wives of Henry VIII and Hitler, nobody seems...

Of Course the IRA Won in 1998: The Balance Sheet

Why do you think police are now investigating the long-ago acts of British soldiers in Northern Ireland, while Patrick Magee (pictured), the multiple murderer who tried to do away with the British Cabinet in Brighton (killing five innocent persons and injuring another 31) is a free man? And why do you think our Government cannot stop this? I will tell you. It is because we surrendered to the IRA in 1998. The defeated must do as they are told.

If, like me, you opposed this at the time, you are...

Now we know for sure that our leaders lost their heads over Covid

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday column

 

There can now be no doubt that the strangling of our society in 2020 was just as mad and stupid as I said it was. It failed to stop the spread of Covid. Our economy was wrecked, the national work ethic was destroyed, our liberties were shredded and the NHS crippled, probably permanently. Even now jobs are vanishing and businesses closing as a result of it. The education of the young was trashed, and the lives of the old made so miserable that ma...

The Article Dominic Sandbrook won't respond to

Last Week I published this response to Dominic Sandbrook's article for 'Unherd' about the Ukraine War . he has now said tht he will not respond to it. I don't blame him. 

 

Last week the website ���Unherd��� published an article on the Ukraine War by the historian Dominic Sandbrook. I believe it merits a response, and have interleaved that response in the original article, marking the breaks between Mr Sandbrook;s original and my responses **** . I have also put Mr Sandbrook���s words in blue,...