Peter Hitchens

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1Mar 11, '23Nobody 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 m126×4.2M5.4k1.3k300
3Feb 23, '24Where 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?37.9×1.3M4.4k632119
4Jul 17, '25Good question: My article in today’s Daily Mail.17.7×592k48k7.8k571
5Mar 2, '25HITCHENS: This point still needs making. Why are Europe's leaders keeping Ukraine war going?17.5×586k11k2.6k302
6Oct 20, '23Poster seen at London Bridge. As people keep tearing these down, I feel impelled to tweet them.15×500k7.7k2.8k33
7Apr 14, '24My letter in The Spectator this week.12.3×411k4.6k95793
8Nov 11, '25My timeline is full of left-wing people saying how unbiased the BBC is.12.2×407k15k1.1k152
9Feb 17, '25For 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 ob11.9×396k9.4k1.5k259
10Aug 4, '25Today 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 solv11×367k5.7k598458
11Feb 25, '23Remind 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 in11×367k4.8k1.1k51
12Jun 15, '24I 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'?9.4×313k4k1.7k375
13Dec 1, '24A 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 w8.7×289k5.8k1k320
14Aug 18, '25People 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, w8.6×288k6.2k995198
15Jun 22, '24Piers 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 ce8.0×267k4.7k1.4k650
16Dec 15, '24From 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?7.8×261k6.1k2k350
17Sep 1, '25You really, really should have listened( June 24, 2024)7.5×250k9.6k1.4k119
18Feb 22, '25HITCHENS: Why are Europe's leaders so keen onkeeping the moronic Ukraine war going?7.1×238k4.4k939152
19Oct 18, '24'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 about6.8×227k3.9k628102
20Jun 5, '25A British child’s bookshelf 65 years ago.6.5×216k6.3k685456
21Nov 6, '24Why *is* .@rorystewartuk so caressed and admired and listened to?6.3×211k4.3k30259
22Sep 22, '24My Mail on Sunday column today5.8×193k9.2k1.7k41
23Mar 15, '25Early 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 5.4×181k8.8k2.3k128
24Jun 20, '25Parliament 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?5.3×178k7.8k1.5k128
25Aug 10, '24PETER HITCHENS: Hardline policing works. So why does Starmer use it only to protect himself, not to protect us?4.8×161k5.6k1.1k129
26Aug 23, '25The 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 Poland4.5×149k4.1k491104
27Oct 1, '23'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, 4.2×141k4.9k83414
28Apr 3, '25In today’s Daily Mail:3.9×131k10k2.6k197
29Mar 20, '22Mail on Sunday today:3.8×011k3.5k280
30Jul 10, '25PETER HITCHENS: Don’t be fooled into getting rid of juries, the most important defence of liberty3.7×124k4.1k1.3k89
31Jan 19, '25My Mail on Sunday column today.3.5×116k5.6k1.1k41
32Sep 29, '21Britain, the land where people panic about things that don't threaten them, but are utterly complacent about the things that do threaten them. Fascinating.3.4×013k2.3k81
33Nov 10, '25.@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, 3.4×114k6.1k79552
34Dec 21, '20Dr John Lee in today’s Daily Mail asks the right question.3.1×09.8k2.8k60
35Jan 19, '25PETER 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 have3.0×100k6.3k1.7k91
36Oct 22, '21An expert writes. Letters to ‘The Times’ today:2.9×09.5k2.7k153
37Nov 1, '20'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 servi2.9×07.1k1.7k45
38Apr 15, '20Can 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 th2.9×09.6k1.7k33
39Aug 12, '20Perhaps, @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 predicte2.8×010k2k20
40Mar 8, '25Weeks 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 hav2.6×86k4.3k1k76
41Jul 13, '20In 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 to2.5×07.2k2.3k65
42Jan 1, '22How 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 foolis2.5×09.6k1.4k17
43Mar 19, '22Astounding 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 inter2.3×08.1k1.9k40
44Aug 21, '25Far from being 'racist', our love of flags is a longing for identity2.2×72k4k62454
45Mar 3, '22War 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 o2.2×07.9k1.5k121
46Nov 1, '20Why are these deaths, far greater than those from Covid, and invmany cases preventable, not read out nightly in solemn tones in the BBC?2.0×05.1k2.1k128
47Apr 5, '22If 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 not2.0×06.7k1.6k61
48Aug 28, '22My column in The Mail on Sunday today.2.0×05.4k1.2k88
49Dec 31, '21My 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 (fail1.9×03.9k661229
50Dec 30, '20They thought they couldn’t get away with Maoist repression. Then they discovered that they could.1.9×04.4k2.3k148
51May 17, '22German soldiers are evacuated from Stalingrad, February 1943, as the BBC would put it.1.8×06.2k1.5k87
52Aug 15, '20Distilling power out of fear. How to do it:1.8×03.7k2.1k131
53Jan 5, '21The 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 t1.7×05.8k1.4k20
54Nov 5, '20I 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 the1.7×05.4k1.3k39
55Apr 10, '18Now 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 rath1.6×03.7k2.3k0
56Oct 3, '21The world we lost, or rather threw away, in 1914.1.6×06.1k837223
57Apr 5, '21Government to step up efforts to identify people who are not ill.1.6×05.9k1.1k11
58Jun 26, '21Hancock’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 stayed1.6×05.6k1.2k29
59Oct 1, '20You won’t see this graph on the BBC (from today’s ‘ Daily Mail’)1.6×03.6k2k86
60Jan 15, '22Letter in the Daily Telegraph today1.5×04.8k1.4k44
61Apr 10, '19peter hitchens1.5×04.7k1.1k30
62May 25, '20Also, 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 authorities1.5×05k1.1k8
63Sep 20, '20To 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 what1.5×04.7k96211
64Mar 27, '22How 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 reports1.5×05.2k1.2k69
65Dec 10, '21The 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 1.4×04.6k1.3k21
66Dec 25, '20I 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 1.4×06.3k3877
67Dec 3, '22I 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 arguments1.4×03.6k1.2k505
68Jul 24, '22What the BBC *used* to believe about climate change. And they were just as certain them as they are now.1.4×04.1k1.3k125
69Feb 14, '18peter hitchens1.4×03.6k1.4k4
70Feb 24, '21Astonishing medical triumph1.4×04.1k1.1k55
71Jun 26, '21Hancock’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 eve1.4×04.5k1.3k18
72Oct 7, '20When this is the front page of the Daily Mail, a Tory government needs to worry.1.3×03.7k1.5k28
73Sep 20, '20Matt 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 educat1.3×04.2k1.2k11
74Jun 17, '22This is a total and unmitigated disgrace and shames this country.1.3×04.4k1.1k21
75May 23, '18Did 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 P1.3×03.3k1.6k5
76May 28, '21One...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, t1.3×04.2k1.1k20
77Oct 14, '20Hancock 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 cruel1.3×03.8k1.3k20
78Feb 26, '22Say 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?1.2×04.5k77893
79Dec 15, '21In memory of my late brother Christopher, who died ten years ago.1.2×05.1k452105
80Dec 1, '20Still 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.1.2×03.7k1.2k32
81Jun 15, '20Dutifully wearing face covering on train this morning, surprised to find I can in fact balance reading glasses on gas mask.1.2×04.5k67617
82Oct 21, '20As you@might expect, more sense in one woman’s head in Barnsley than in the whole of Westminster and the BBC.1.2×04.3k96634
83Apr 2, '21Nor did I1.2×05.4k33611
84Aug 31, '20If this doesn;t give you the creeps, there's something wrong with you:1.2×03.7k1k25
85Feb 14, '21My Mail on Sunday column today1.2×03.9k1.1k42
86Oct 14, '20'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 l1.2×03.5k1.3k10
87Oct 8, '20The consensus is over. The Daily Mail’s front page today.1.2×03.4k1.2k20
88Dec 22, '21Peking 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 t1.1×04.4k75929
89Nov 24, '20The first epidemic in history that the authorities have had to go out and look for.1.1×03.6k1k23
90Aug 15, '21All these people saying ‘we’ should have stayed in Afghanistan do not mean themselves. They mean young men from de-industrialised cities.1.1×04.2k76382
91Nov 7, '20Once 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-pampered1.1×03.6k1.1k31
92Nov 4, '20Almost all Labour MPs today voted to make huge numbers of their their own voters unemployed and homeless. Don’t forget at the next election.1.1×03.7k9097
93Jan 17, '22Let 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 *1.1×03.9k6438
94Dec 24, '20I 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 G1.0×04.2k3435
95Oct 17, '21Unbelievable. 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 not1.0×03.9k47916
96Oct 22, '20Has 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 1.0×03.5k74336
97Oct 29, '20But @piersmorgan *we* have to be interested in your twisted statistics, your feeble reasoning powers, your intolerance and misrepresentation of dissent and your wild, irresponsible1.0×03.6k5888
98Nov 2, '20How 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 argum1.0×03.5k5736
99Feb 7, '21Today 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 approvi0.9×03.7k5109
100Jan 8, '20Do 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.0.8×03k47936

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