Blog Profile / Peter Hitchens's Blog
| URL : | http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Politics / UK Politics | |
| Posts on Regator: | 600 | |
| Posts / Week: | 5.8 | |
| Archived Since: | June 21, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
UKIP is still Dad's Army
UKIP - NO APOLOGY from Peter Hitchens: I’ve been surprised to find that some people have taken my ‘American Spectator’ article as a retraction of my past criticism of UKIP. No such thing was intended, though ‘Phil W’ ( and...
An Article from the American Spectator, about UKIP
Some of you may be interested in this article from the June 2013 issue of the 'American Spectator', in which I try to explain the recent electoral success of UKIP to a U.S. audience. Some of you may not be...
From Micah Clarke to Elmer Gantry - two very different books about religion
Quite often I read more than one book at a time, perhaps history on the train and a novel before going to sleep. In the past fortnight, I’ve been reading two novels, which have turned out to have one powerful...
Suicide, the Addiction Fiction, Eating Organs in Syria and Cannabis
Just to run through a few unresolved matters from the weekend. I am still hoping to hear from ‘HM’ about the effect of ‘narrative verdicts’ on the suicide statistics. As I said, my exchange with this contributor was extremely useful...
A Rare Outbreak of Scepticism in Syrian Coverage - but was it justified?
A number of British media outlets were obviously shocked by Vladimir Putin’s sneer that it was unwise to arm Syrian rebels who ‘eat the organs’ of their enemies. Reporters used words such as ‘apparently’ and ‘allegedly’ to qualify the Russian...
So Much for 'Father's Day' - in a Country Where Fatherhood is Dying Out
By the end of his or her childhood, a British boy or girl is much more likely to have a TV set in the bedroom than a father at home. Our 45-year national war against traditional family life has been...
Do you still need proof our rulers are lying to us? Just take a train
This is Peter Hitchens' Mail on Sunday column Once you have resigned yourself to the fact that this is now a mad country with a mad Government, you can – as I do these days – enjoy the comedy. You...
Is Suicide being Accurately Recorded in the United Kingdom?
What follows is another aspect of our long debate on 'antidepressant' pills. On an earlier thread I have been having an interesting discussion with ‘HM’ on the suicide figures. HM says that the trend is down, and has educated me...
My (repeated) Challenge to Damian Thompson
On 10th May I posted the following: 'Damian Thompson, the Daily Telegraph columnist, has stated on Twitter: ‘Peter Hitchens's record on MMR is shameful. Even now he seems chiefly concerned (as ever) w[ith] protecting his own reputation.’ This follows the...
Grammar Schools - the Campaign to resore them grows in strength, but still their opponents will not argue seriously or honestly
Here and elsewhere I often run into people who want to quibble about the grammar school issue, rather than actually address the problem of how we select children for proper academic education. I have to assume that all intelligent people...
Drugs and Personal Responsiblity , a Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma
I have hesitated before publishing what follows, as it deals with a number of rather sensitive subjects. I would ask those who comment upon it to be thoughtful in their responses. I think I may now know why Damian Thompson,...
Conversation - Mr Cameron's Mortgage, Grammar Schools and Secondary Moderns, Randolph Churchill's Benign Tumour
I’ll take this chance to respond to some of the postings over the weekend.. The first is quite straightforward, from Edward Willhoft: He wrote : ‘If you're going to reduce an allegation of an "immense mortgage" held by Cameron and.....
End the Rule of the Rich and Thick. Bring Back Grammar Schools
This Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday Column If a democracy is a place where we tell our rulers what to do, why is it illegal to open any new grammar schools? Once, this country was dotted with hundreds of these...
We Need to Know More About This
I draw the attention of readers to the case of Matthew Tvrdon, who last October killed one person (Karina Menzies) and injured many more, using motor vehicles as his weapons on the streets of Cardiff. Many of you will remember...
A Crackdown on Crackdowns
Does any normal human being use the word ‘crackdown’ ? Yet politicians, and their all-too-willing patsies in the media, love to do so. Every few days we seem to have a ‘crackdown’ on hate preachers, lager louts, deadbeat dads, welfare...
The Sexual Revolution
Some of you have asked if there is a recording of my discussion of the Sexual Revolution with Linda Grant, which took place on Sunday 19th May at the Bristol Festival of Ideas. Here it is.My thanks to Luke...
Simon Raven - Better Without the Sex
As some of you may have noticed, this weblog has been a little less energetic during the past fortnight, as I’ve been away from my desk. Among my many relaxations during this period were a visit to the cinema to...
Constantinople Revisited - Some Thoughts on Middle Eastern Politics
The unrest in Turkey caused me to re-read an article about that fascinating country which I published here in August 2010 : http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2010/08/the-disturbing-picture-of-growing-repression-at-the-heart-of-eurabia.html When I wrote it nearly three years ago the mainstream media were still chanting away about how...
What We do to Syria May One Day Be Done to Us
Imagine this: Newspapers and broadcasters in China suddenly start to denounce the British government. They call it a ‘regime’. They say that its treatment of its Muslim minority is cruel and unjust. Soon, their views are echoed by the Chinese...
A Brief Response to Mr Monkton
A Mr Monkton writes :' Yet again we have Peter Hitchens trying to find a scapegoat for the action of people in inanimate substances. We've had Anders Breivik's mass murder blamed on steroids, sudafed and caffeine, despite the fact that...