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Replying to @ClarkeMicah
I think it's in The King Must Die actually. And the captive comes to a very sticky end
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Thank you
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I still don't know what "heterodox" means. A very good interview and bravo.
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. I simply do not think it is true that I interrupted . all the time. Perhaps he will give his opinion. My friend . is good at monitoring these things. Maybe she has a view?
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Replying to @novaramedia @AaronBastani and @ClarkeMicah
Can't watch! First 30 secs of him interrupting you all the time in his plummy voice finished me off ... should I really persist?
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On the contrary , I have completely wasted my breath trying to oppose e-scooters. Since you ask, I would reintroduce electric trams to every town and city, and replace the railway lines torn up after 1963.
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Replying to @ClarkeMicah and @marydejevsky
You're very good at stopping things but what would you introduce?
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.. Alas, as far as I can see, most people are indifferent, at least until one of these things breaks their legs or is used to mug them. I've been amazed by the general indifference when I've tried to oppose them.
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Can #London have a vote too? twitter.com/ClarkeMicah/st…
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Thank you . Here is the interview youtube.com/watch?v=gTse1t .
I agree, . is a good interviewer. He listens to the answers.
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Replying to @novaramedia @AaronBastani and @ClarkeMicah
It was an absolute pleasure watching this. Mr Hitchens has such a fantastic breadth of knowledge & is so eloquent in his delivery - it’s hard not to be seduced. I enjoyed the parts covering his time as a correspondent in Soviet Russia. Aaron Bastani is a really good interviewer.
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Tories, strikes, Russia, hanging, abortion, divorce, history, the contraceptive pill - just some of the subjects I discussed here with Aaron Bastani. youtube.com/watch?v=gTse1t
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'If more people thought, more people would agree with me' My interview with the Left's Aaron Bastani, in full. Be warned. I have no sense of humour : youtube.com/watch?v=gTse1t
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Wonderful, witty madness as always. Keep this up and I might even cancel my subscription to Viz.
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Why on earth does Peter Hitchens repeatedly claim he has no sense of humour? I have never come cross anyone with such a well honed sense of humour. Lot's to disagree with, lots to pause over, but clear the world tickles him.
Novara interview actually very enjoyable
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Fantastic discussion between and . Journalism offering real critical perspectives which I think is defining the style of the team should be proud. It is much a needed journalistic quality. Looking forward to more! #NovaraMedia
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On why conservatives should back unions, his favourite tea brewing methods and why Tony Blair is ‘not that bright’.
@AaronBastani speaks to @ClarkeMicah.
Watch now
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Parisians to vote on e-scooter ban after wave of deadly crashes
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.. We did use some very blunt instruments, but it is by no means clear that they won the war. Indiscriminate aerial bombing did surprisingly little damage to the Nazi war machine. Please see hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2015/02/the-bo
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Replying to @PeterMCrowley and @ClarkeMicah
I'm very glad we won the war, but visiting places like Kaliningrad is a sad reminder that we won it using the bluntest instruments of all.
As Tolkien put it at the time, "There seem no bowels of mercy or compassion, no imagination, left in this dark diabolic hour.”
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.. You might find this interesting hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2012/11/orderl . The huge, very German, Schloss or Citadel which dominated Kaliningrad was blown up at some point in the 1970s on the orders of Alexei Kosygin. Obliteration was the aim.
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Replying to @Brownson_Review @Marys_Miles and @ClarkeMicah
The violinist Michael Wieck, who was witness to it all, spoke of "the dying of a city that lost all that was characteristic of it for all time.” I think there's a colorable case both ways, but I lean to @clarkemicah's stance: It's nearly like Roman Carthage versus Punic Carthage.
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Indeed , ., It could be considered part of the very violent and cruel deportations under Potsdam which were set in motion in much of Europe. When people start wars, they seldom foresee how much misery they will bring, or who will suffer most.
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Replying to @Marys_Miles and @ClarkeMicah
Something like 90% of Königsberg was destroyed in the war. There *were* other major cities to suffer similar destruction in the war (Warsaw, et al), but the difference is, it also underwent almost complete (alien) population replacement when it was rebuilt, too.
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I am much of your opinion . For instance, I think Clement Attlee was a great Labour leader, but his role in preventing and delaying British rearmament in the 1930s is shocking. All educated people should know about his virtues *and* his failures.
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Replying to @ClarkeMicah
The trouble with 'present' day people cancelling 'past' people is 'future' people may do same to them for their actions today. Accept the facts of history. Learn from them so we can improve the world for the next generations.
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Strange to look at a map of a city which no longer exists This (dating from 1936) was Koenigsberg in East Prussia, now Kaliningrad in Russia. Very little remains (though German manhole covers can still be spotted, and I visited the tomb of Immanuel Kant on a visit in 1992.
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So quite a bit, if the person involved will soon afterwards be engulfing large portions of the world in war..
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Replying to @AaronBastani @ClarkeMicah and @campbellclaret
So he didn’t know they speak Portuguese in Brazil. So what.
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If it was my postman I’d say the same thing, but the soon to be Prime minister of the country who’s had one of the best educations money can buy not knowing a basic fact about a major country is a different matter entirely.
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You can't be serious. Anybody with even a superficial appreciation of the major themes of World History should know not only that they speak Portuguese in Brazil but why that is the case. Hence Hitchens' incredulity, which is entirely warranted.
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that was what I thought. There is a marvellous passage in Mary Renault’s clever novel ‘ The Bull from the Sea’’ in which a Jewish captive explains to Greek polytheists the nature of the One God.
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Replying to @ClarkeMicah
Judaism existed long before the Leonardis (of Sparta) and Alexander the Great.
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. . No doubt. But what would it *explain* that you *currently* regard as unexplained, my actual point? Belief is about the unproven and the unknown ..
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I disagree. If it was proven that there were fairies at the bottom of the garden, and a real Santa Claus, it would change my world view utterly. I would then believe in God.
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My column in The Mail on Sunday today.
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Peter Hitchens on trade unions, Tony Blair and the end of the monarchy. Plus: what tea he drinks, whether he retains anything from his Trotskyist days & what conservatives he is impressed by.
Our conversation is on tonight at 7pm youtu.be/gTse1tyVDs0
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.. Maybe so, but 'most people' are not employed to present major news programmes on the BBC.
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Because most people still think of Russia in terms of Hunt for Red October. Pavlov's dog-style response to decades old conditioning. twitter.com/ClarkeMicah/st…
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.. I do 't think I have expressed any disapproval of or condemnation of any such assertion. I have simply pointed out that the causes of Scottish and Welsh Nationalism are hugely stronger now than they were in my childhood.
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Replying to @ClarkeMicah and @JSherredAdams
Yes - how dare they assert the inalienable right to national self determination.
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Monotheism is a wholly separate and distinct belief from the polytheistic belief in the Greek 'gods'. And as far as I know monotheism coexisted with them.
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if you lived in Ancient Greece which God would you have worshiped?
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.@fredajones66. Surely you've finished kindergarten? What unexplained things would be solved by claims that there were fairies at the bottom of the garden, an orbiting teapot or Santa Claus? None. The debate about theism, by contrast, concerns the unknown origin of the universe.
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Replying to @ClarkeMicah
I lack belief in fairies at the bottom of the garden.
So am I human or am I cowpat?
If that really is your best shot, a bit of a let down. 
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This extraordinary question, by an experienced and knowledgeable BBC presenter, makes me wonder whether the Western commentariat have ever grasped that the Cold War ended, or how and why it did so.
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Communism collapsed in Russia more than 30 years ago. So why did BBC presenter Ritula Shah ask a US Congressman sceptical about American aid to Ukraine: ‘Do you support democracy and freedom? Are you opposed to Communism?’' hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2023/01/peter-
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Stalin airbrushed Trotsky out of hundreds of official figures. But we still don't know exactly who airbrushed Al 'Boris' Johnson out of a photograph of him standing next to Grant Shapps and a space rocket. Why not? hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2023/01/peter-
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Communism collapsed in Russia more than 30 years ago. So why did BBC presenter Ritula Shah ask a US Congressman sceptical about American aid to Ukraine: ‘Do you support democracy and freedom? Are you opposed to Communism?’' hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2023/01/peter-
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Yes, Drake did wicked things. But it’s idiotic to pretend he wasn’t a great Englishman hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2023/01/peter-
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.. Cowpats lack belief. No human does. Why are atheists so reluctant to take responsibility for their own chosen opinions? And why are they so keen to maintain that the universe is a pointless giant car-crash?
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Replying to @ClarkeMicah
Atheism is just the lack of a belief in a god, as I am sure your well know.
Meanwhile religious creations stories while great fun, are just made up explanations of the origins of the universe.
Here is a list of 25 of them...
list25.com/25-creation-st
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.. Then you need to take a closer interest in the country of your forebears. Scottish and Welsh Nationalism, encouraged by (amongst othr things) the creation of Scottish and Welsh parliaments, has increased hugely ijn the pst 60 years.
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Replying to @ClarkeMicah and @Westeros2018
As an American with English, Scottish, and Welsh ancestors I don't get the problem.
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Replying to @ClarkeMicah and @MaryKapadia
You claimed she attacked you earlier. You don’t feel roasted but do feel attacked? Are you sure you’ve made your mind up?
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., Politically, theScotland of the 1950s was strongly Unionist ( Did you know the Daily Record was once a Unionist newspaper?) .I think this reflected a general contentment with the Union , which has now vanished.
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What is less British about Scotland now? Due to my age I'm not sure what British really is.
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Yes .@socialdemsheff. I suspect many of my late brother’s more besotted fans are unaware of his positive liking for the Blair creature, an even greater lapse of taste and judgement than his friendship with Stephen Fry. I did what I could to dissuade him from both, but got nowhere
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Replying to @AaronBastani @ClarkeMicah and @campbellclaret
Ah, believing the words of that noted left winger humanitarian and Labour supported Peter Hitchens. You are a complete tool. Here to educate you is *actual* left winger Christopher Hitchens on Blair theatlantic.com/magazine/archi
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