Peter Lilley as promised - and a Debate in London, not involving Howard Marks

I'm afraid that my attempt to link with Peter Lilley's review hasn't worked. I'll try to reinstate it when I've overcome the difficulty. Let me simply say that , though Mr Lilley disagrees with me, he gives a fair and intelligent account of what I have written. he also described the embrace he was given by the pro-drug left when he wrote his pamphlet on the subject some years ago ( a pamphlet I criticise severely in the book).

I was particularly amused by the way he described the joy of liberals at the arrival of a lost sheep in their fold,  which must have been a horribly creepy experience after years of hostility directed against Mr Lilley for having been a ‘Thatcherite’. 

 

This link may work

http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/drugs-legalisation-peter-hitchens-peter-lilley/

 

Some of you may also be interested to know that I plan to debate Tim Wilkinson (whom I debated on the subject of cannabis on this site some months ago) in person in London (on the same topic)on Wednesday 14th November. Details can be found on his blog at www.surelysomemistake.blogspot.com

 

By the way, does anyone know who Jenny Colgan is? She has apparently been expressing critical opinions about me on Twitter, and I would like to know more.

 

**Note. I now recall an encounter with this person on BBC Radio 2 some months ago.