Notices tagged with peterhitchens
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The Continuing Crisis, and some responses #peterhitchens The following post is an enlarged and revised version of a long comment I placed on the previous thread. First, a warning against sarcasm in pr…
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Comment Warriors, and How to Spread Bile #peterhitchens I have at last been honoured. No, not some bauble or title, but my first ever hostile demonstration, personally directed against me. Alas, I c…
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Don’t forget, it takes a cynical knave to create a dodgy knight #peterhitchens I really used to think a knight was something special. I dimly recall meeting my first one, at some prehistoric school…
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Einstein versus the Atheists #peterhitchens Since I first got into this fight, I have noticed that the God-hating faction don’t actually want Christians to be reasonable or accommodating. They want t…
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The Lost Veto #peterhitchens Two weeks before Christmas, Britain’s conservative media went into a collective swoon of admiration for David Cameron. He had ‘stood up to the EU’. He had ‘wielded …
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A former dope smoker writes something fairly sensible #peterhitchens I cannot link to it, because it is behind a pay-wall, but several people have drawn my attention to an article in the London ‘Sund…
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The Cannabis Cult #peterhitchens The tempest of raving, enraged and (in most cases) logic-free and fact-free comments on my criticisms of ‘Sir’ Richard Branson are most interesting to the intellige…
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Heroin in the supermarket… why ever not, Sir Richard? #peterhitchens Sir Richard Branson says he doesn’t want to see drugs sold in supermarkets. Why not? That is the logic of his opinions, and I ca…
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Cold War Nostalgia, and a few responses #peterhitchens It is one of my greatest regrets that in my long-ago days as Defence Correspondent of Another Newspaper, I was abruptly pulled off a visit to the …
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What is Child Poverty? And other questions #peterhitchens The mention of the word ‘child’ or ‘children’ in any political speech is often – though not always - a warning of humbug to come. The…
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No Sex, Some Drugs, No Rock and No Roll. Also Some Bicycling #peterhitchens I shall resist the temptation to march off back to Stalingrad. I said I wouldn’t argue about homosexuality any more, and I …
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Wake up, judge! We've been letting everyone in for years #peterhitchens This is Peter Hitchens' Mail On Sunday column Meet Viktor Akulic (pictured), ordinary rapist, child-rapist and general violent ja…
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One Reason Why I hate Cars, and a brief note on Lifestyle Choices #peterhitchens On Sunday morning a woman rushed out of a side road in a quiet Oxford suburb, violently knocked me off my bicycle and ma…
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Christopher Hitchens. Funeral and Memorial arrangements #peterhitchens First may I once again thank the many people who visited this site to express condolence on the death of my late brother, Christop…
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Kickboxing and Scotland – some responses #peterhitchens I had meant to deal with Scotland and other matters in my previous post, and in just a second I shall do so but the grammar school issue ran aw…
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Keeping Out the Oiks, and other spurious arguments against Grammar Schools #peterhitchens Comment of the week comes from Christopher Charles, who wrote (first quoting me): ‘A non-selective school s…
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A free Scotland? No, it's being fed into the Euro-blender #peterhitchens If David Cameron wants to hurry Scotland out of the United Kingdom, he is going the right way about it. The more he says he love…
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Reflections on the Rule of Law, on Scotland and on an astonishingly cruel portrayal of Lady Thatcher #peterhitchens I am grateful to the many readers who wrote to endorse my plea for the rule of law, f…
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