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You may order signed copies of almost all my books from Blackwells of Oxford, 01865 792792, customers.ox@blackwell.co.uk . The exceptions are ‘Short Breaks in Mordor’ and ‘Unconventional Wisdom’ which may be ordered (unsigned, I’m afraid) through Amazon.
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Britain, the land where people panic about things that don't threaten them, but are utterly complacent about the things that do threaten them. Fascinating.
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HITCHENS: This point still needs making. Why are Europe's leaders keeping Ukraine war going? dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic…
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Can the government please dispense with the Union Jacks on display at the daily press conference? We are not the USA. Ministers speak for the government, not for the country. If they wish for our support and respect, they must earn it, not borrow it from a flag.
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Perhaps, @piersmorgan, but do you ever ask *yourself* what role *you* played in creating the wild disproportionate hysteria which crashed our economy so predictably that I predicted it. I am, personally, surprised that you can sleep.
The UK has suffered the worst #coronavirus death toll in Europe AND now the worst recession in Europe.
This would suggest we have the most incompetent Govt in Europe.
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How very sad that to see that Anthony Blair is now a Knight of the Garter. Until now it was possible to believe that the Sovereign thought that his support for the wrong and foolish invasion of Iraq (and its disastrous outcome) disqualified him from this honour.
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For years I was derided for pointing out that the Ukraine war was a cynical US proxy war, in which Washington DC was using Ukraine as a battering ram against Russia. Now this is obviously true, Europe is full of blowhards who want to keep that war going. But why?
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Astounding to hear Gordon Brown on BBC Radio 4 righteously demanding war crimes trials for aggression. Has he actually forgotten he was in the Cabinet which invaded Iraq? His interviewer also never mentioned it.
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Early Onset Foreign Mania grips Sir K.Starmer. In a country where the sick have to lie in corridors, the trains don't work, the government is destroying jobs, millions can't get a dentist etc, what makes him think our role is to spend billions we don't have on fuelling foreign wars? eurointegration.com.ua/eng/e…
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War hysteria is loose. Dissent is attacked as treachery. For the first time in my life I'm fully able to imagine the catastrophic 1914 period, when an entire nation hurled itself over the cliffs of war. It'll be white feathers next.
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Poster seen at London Bridge. As people keep tearing these down, I feel impelled to tweet them.
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In the name of Covid, the state has come between spouses at the point of death, practically abolished weddings and funerals, prevented millions from making a living, confined us to our homes. Now it tells us what to wear. Is there no point at which people will say 'enough' ?
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'The oddest thing about the Panicdemic is that nobody would know it existed if the Government and its mouthpiece the BBC did not constantly seek to terrify us into a state of servile fear.' hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co…
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Parliament votes for the abortion of the old, shortly after voting for the even more ruthless abortion of the unborn. Are we now ruled by a death cult?
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@countdankulatv. I owe you an apology. It is plain that you are not a neo-nazi, and I was wrong to call you one. I am sorry.
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If anyone had told me even ten years ago that British leftists, notably their church, the BBC, would be making excuses for neo-Nazis, and minimising their significance, I would not have believed it. We are in wholly new territory.
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German soldiers are evacuated from Stalingrad, February 1943, as the BBC would put it.
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I realise I cannot properly respond individually to all the many kind messages here.. Please accept this as my thanks to all who have supported and encouraged what I ( and several others) have done. You have given strength to my arm, and kept me from despairing.
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PETER HITCHENS: WE are no more a superpower than Legoland is. Why then do we squander money we do not have. and weapons we cannot afford, on a cruel and stupid war in which we have no interest? mol.im/a/14299639 via @MailOnline
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The Tale of Three Lockdowns. One you might excuse on the grounds of inadequacy and panic. Two begin to look like carelessness. But imposing a *third* lockdown *because* the first two failed is an example of doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.
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From my Mail on Sunday column today. The most shocking news of the month is the actual *cancellation* of NATO and EU member Romania’s Presidential election. Where are the protests? Where are the nightly BBC reports? NATO & the EU claim to stand for democracy. Why are they silent?
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People still haven't grasped it. There's been a revolution. It isn't Britain anymore, and hasn't been for decades. Why did it take you so long to notice? Why did you vote for it, when you had the chance not to?
It’s actually sad that council ‘authorities’ despise the will of the people so much that they’ll even tear down England’s own flag, just to deny the right to be proud of England.
The council has stated that ‘Operation Raise the Colours’ England flags will be promptly removed.
Petty and churlish. Like all authoritarian states start out!
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A glimpse of Britain before the Cultural Revolution, a world so different from today that many would not believe it if they could be transported back to it. Yet it existed. Those who lived then could not (cannot) easily believe what we have since become.
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I am really struggling with this statement by Hancock: ''Travelling abroad for the purpose of assisted dying is a reasonable excuse and so anyone doing so would not be breaking the law."Yet if I, aged 69, am prepared to *risk* my own death by living normally, that's not allowed.
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Hancock’s panic crashed the NHS, ruined the economy, wrecked the lives of the old, destroyed education, condemned us to years of inflation & punitive taxation - & he stayed on. But one undistanced canoodle on CCTV and he’s toast. British politics and society perfectly summed up.
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.@kirstiemallsopp. No, it isn’t. It’s just that the BBC has handed Donald Trump
its own head on a plate, by transmitting unprofessional bilge about him.And he has, unsurprisingly, accepted the gift.
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Today is the 111th anniversary of the suicide of the British Empire, which needlessly joined in the Russo-German war of 1914, losing huge numbers of lives, naval supremacy and solvency, defaulting on its US debts(still unpaid today) in 1934.
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Nobody seems to know one crucial fact. The Nazis were very Left-wing. They hated Christianity and deliberately set children against their parents. They imposed penal taxes on the middle class and attracted Communists to their ranks. mailplus.co.uk/edition/comme… via @mailplus
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Why are these deaths, far greater than those from Covid, and invmany cases preventable, not read out nightly in solemn tones in the BBC?
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PETER HITCHENS: Hardline policing works. So why does Starmer use it only to protect himself, not to protect us? dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic…
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How we sink. After the Hitler war, there was general horror at suggestions that helpless prisoners might be mistreated. Now I have to read people exulting over, or excusing reports of such behaviour. There is no more corrupting force than the belief that you are good and right.
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To all the adults out there I put this question. Have you ever, even in the direr years of John Major or Harold Wilson, experienced a government which so obviously has no idea what it is doing, or a Parliament so useless at holding it to account? So why does it survive?
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Also, those who supported the pursuit of Dominic Cummings must ask themselves if they really want to live in a country where normal human actions can be reported to the authorities by informers.
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In memory of my late brother Christopher, who died ten years ago. hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co…
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The British government must not permit the extradition of Julian Assange to the USA. The case is clearly political, and to surrender him to the US penal system would be to declare ourselves a vassal state of the USA, not a sovereign nation. Johnson surely knows this.
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Remind me, somebody, but wasn't this Gordon Brown a leading member of the British government that, alongside the USA, illegally invaded Iraq in 2003 and plunged the whole region into a cauldron of fire and screams for no known good purpose?
Gordon Brown says Putin could stand trial for war crimes "in a few weeks" if the US joins Europe's push for legal proceedings.
"The key is to persuade the whole of the world that this is a crime that is completely unacceptable in the modern world."
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'The BBC presenter Nick Robinson complains that people are deserting his Radio 4 Today programme by the thousands because they can’t face the world and want to avoid the news. No, Nick. They just cannot stand the Today programme' hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co…
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Dutifully wearing face covering on train this morning, surprised to find I can in fact balance reading glasses on gas mask.
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They thought they couldn’t get away with Maoist repression. Then they discovered that they could.
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Where is the mercy in the treatment of Shamima Begum? Do we have no judges left who understand that justice is tempered with mercy? She was 15. Were none of them ever 15?
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Say I warn you to stop annoying a wasp, and you don’t stop, and it stings you. Am I ‘supporting the wasp’ if I say you were stupid?
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Piers Morgan reduced to goggling silence by facts. For once he doesn't try to shout down his interviewee. I suspect he didn't know any of this at the time, and I also suspect he ceased to know it within a few hours of being told. Fun, though.
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As you@might expect, more sense in one woman’s head in Barnsley than in the whole of Westminster and the BBC.
“I’ve not got that many years left of me and I’m not going to be fastened in a house.”
Here’s how one 83-year-old in Barnsley reacted to the news that tier three restrictions will be introduced in South Yorkshire from Saturday.
See more here: bbc.in/2HeVYDM
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Hancock’s behaviour - like that of other senior promoters of the Covid panic - shows beyond doubt that the government did and does not believe its own propaganda. Oddly, almost everyone else does believe it. That is our tragedy.
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This is a total and unmitigated disgrace and shames this country.
🚨BREAKING: Priti Patel has signed an order to extradite Julian Assange to the US to face espionage charges, the Home Office has confirmed telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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All these people saying ‘we’ should have stayed in Afghanistan do not mean themselves. They mean young men from de-industrialised cities.
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Matt Hancock: He can smash up your business, make you unemployed, part you from your nearest and dearest at the ends of their lives, drain your wedding of joy and wreck your education. He can and he does. Why won't anyone stop him? Where are the brakes on this thing?
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I cannot really wish anyone a happy Christmas in this time of unrestrained folly and mass hysteria, but may I wish those who would appreciate it a very blessed Christmas, Full of Grace and Truth?
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Now is the time for all level-headed men and women of all persuasions to write, politely and concisely, to their MPs and Congressmen and women, urging caution and verification rather than an unreasoning rush to war. Please do it today.
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Peking has removed a monument to the Tiananmen Square massacre in Hong Kong as part of an effort to hide that it ever happened. Why is it that people still get so worked up about the long-dead British Empire, and are indifferent to, or even friendly to the Chinese Empire?
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HITCHENS: Why are Europe's leaders so keen onkeeping the moronic Ukraine war going? dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic…
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Why *is* .@rorystewartuk so caressed and admired and listened to?
I haven’t changed my mind on Kamala Harris winning comfortably. And I’m looking forward to the elaborate explanations from the polling companies on why they failed to predict the result.
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One...more...time: positive test results are not ‘cases’ or ‘infections’ . They are positive test results. If the manipulation and misrepresentation of figures cannot be stopped, then responsible citizens must rediscover the simple arts of scepticism.
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Astonishing medical triumph independent.co.uk/news/healt…
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What the BBC *used* to believe about climate change. And they were just as certain them as they are now.
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Weeks ago, lots of people applauded what was, in simple terms, the takeover of Syria by a Turkish-backed Al Qaeda franchise. Now it turns out this may be problematic. Who would have thought it? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxn…
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If this doesn;t give you the creeps, there's something wrong with you: theguardian.com/world/2020/a…
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Hancock and Johnson *are* letting unemployment rip. Hancock and Johnson * have* let cancer and heart disease rip. Hancock and Johnson *have* let family separation and callous cruelty rip. Never forget it. Justice will eventually catch up with these buffoons.
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I keep telling you how weird Keir Starmer is. Czechoslovakia in 1986 was deep-frozen under one of the worst Cold War regimes. Why go there then, to live in a tent at a 'work camp'? mol.im/a/13532089 via @MailOnline
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Unbelievable. Those who support the exclusion of a priest from a crime scene would be rightly appalled if a doctor or paramedic was excluded on the same grounds. Do they really not see that, to a believer, a priest is just as essential? Really?
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The English name for the capital of Ukraine is Kiev, just as our name for the capital of Italy is Rome, not Roma, the capital of Czechia is Prague, not Praha, the capital of Poland, Warsaw not Warszawa , the capital of Russia Moscow, not Moskva. Etc etc etc. .@madlife1000
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Still at it. The world’s first ‘pandemic’ where the state has to advertise for sufferers who ‘don’t feel too bad’ . And still millions don’t get it.
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Let me say it again. Those who have leaked the details oif the Downing Street wine and cheese parties have known about them since they happened. Why have they chosen to go public *now*? #coincidencetheoristsoftheworldunite.
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Almost all Labour MPs today voted to make huge numbers of their their own voters unemployed and homeless. Don’t forget at the next election.
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PETER HITCHENS: Don’t be fooled into getting rid of juries, the most important defence of liberty dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic…
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But @piersmorgan *we* have to be interested in your twisted statistics, your feeble reasoning powers, your intolerance and misrepresentation of dissent and your wild, irresponsible spreading of panic - because you have been given a powerful presenter's chair on TV.
Can all Covidiots please just unfollow me and f*ck off.
This 2nd wave is extremely serious & I'm not interested in your insane conspiracy theories, your dumb fake charts, your 'proof' that covid's 'not as bad as the flu' - or any of your ignorant abusive garbage.
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My response to the (weird) greeting 'Happy New Year': 'Thank you but I pay absolutely no attention to the 'New Year', an empty moment which I associate with the former USSR's (failed) attempt to abolish Christmas'
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Once again, fascinating that former East Germany, all too familiar with a self-righteous repressive regime, is much less willing to accept this sort of thing thna the long-pampered west.
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Far from being 'racist', our love of flags is a longing for identity dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic…
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Do you already have the book @ned_grimes? In that case please send it to me, if poss with a return envelope, to the Mail on Sunday in London. And give your brother my good wishes.
@ClarkeMicah Peter Hitchens, my brother Sam is very sick but has recently been enjoying your audiobooks, he has listened to them all, is there an address I could send a copy of a book to so that you could sign it for him?
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How is serious debate possible in a country where millions have been taught what to think, and almost nobody knows how to think? I have wasted hours today combating bad faith arguments from people who think that anyone who disagrees with them is dishonest and wicked. Distressing.
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Did anyone else notice that The Queen and Theresa May last week hosted an aggressive, repressive despot who crams his jails with journalists? No, not Vladimir Putin, but Turkey's President Erdogan. How is it that we have such double standards, and nobody cares?
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Today is a day I shall always remember - the day I was attacked on Twitter for 'picking fights'; by committing the heinous crime of *asking for evidence*. Worse yet, people approvingly retweeted and liked this attack. Yeah, the sheer nerve! Asking for evidence. Whatever next?
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'You want to let the virus rip' sneer Hancock & Johnson at anyone who backs a different approach:How dare they? They've let cancer rip. They've let heart disease rip. They've let misery rip through thousands of lives, wrecked funerals, couples kept apart, educations destroyed.
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'Has Britain elected a bumbling nobody to the highest office in the land? Or does his dullness conceal a driving purpose? When I say “nobody,” I am not seeking to be snobbish about the humdrum origins of the King’s First Minister, Sir Keir Rodney Starmer. I am just amazed that somebody with so little apparent hinterland or character has sought and obtained a job which immerses him in history and drama.' theamericanconservative.com/…
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Has anyone yet identified this superb citizen of Barnsley, who in a few clear phrases speaks more sense than you could hear in a month from the chattering classes in Parliament or on the disgraceful BBC?
“I’ve not got that many years left of me and I’m not going to be fastened in a house.”
Here’s how one 83-year-old in Barnsley reacted to the news that tier three restrictions will be introduced in South Yorkshire from Saturday.
See more here: bbc.in/2HeVYDM
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I only heard about this short, devastating book a few days ago and know nothing of its author. But everyone should try to get hold of and read its urgent, well-researched arguments.
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