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March 2, 2023
'Good versus evil; right versus wrong. In a complicated world, sometimes it really is that simple' Or is it?
A Riposte to Dominic Sandbrook's article for 'Unherd' about the Ukraine War
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, and mine in red.
My reason for writing is that Mr Sandbrook is not merely expressing an opini...
February 26, 2023
Feeble , Confused Britain(which cannot control its own borders) Pretends to be Tough by Exiling a Powerless Woman
This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday Column
You may think I am pretty bad now, but you should have seen me when I was 15. I said, did and thought terrible things, which are now hateful to me. The memory of them is pretty much unbearable. I can still shudder at the remembrance of them. But there it is, nasty actions once done cannot be undone, cruel words cannot be cancelled.
Perhaps everyone else is so much better than this, and so pure in heart, that they do not think there ...
February 25, 2023
A conversation with Robin Aitken about Eeyore, God and the Cultural Revolution
can be watched here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Dc6kFwFVk
Robin is author of 'Can We Trust the BBC', a former BBC reporter, now a scourge of the Corporation's left-wing bias
Unherd's Ukraine debate, held in London on Thursday 23rd February. And my Talk TV clash with Julia Hartley-Brewer
Can be watched here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0orsI3rQ0Mw
as can my exchange with Julia Hartley-Brewer on Talk TGV two days before
February 18, 2023
PETER HITCHENS: If masks are pointless, will I get an apology?
This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column
The research is in. Wearing bits of cloth over your mouth and nose is almost certainly pointless, unless you are a bank robber trying to hide his ��identity.
The news comes from a Cochrane Review, one of the most reliable and thorough forms of ��scientific research.
The review, which focused on masks and hand-washing, looked at evidence from 78 randomised trials with more than 610,000 participants.
It found that wearing masks in the community...
February 16, 2023
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