Showing posts with label Peter Hitchens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peter Hitchens. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 07, 2025

Peter Hitchens: Nigel Farage Has Made a Colossal Mistake in Befriending Elon Musk

Jan 7, 2025 | “I think Nigel Farage has been foolish to get so close.”

Nigel Farage has made a mistake in his attempts to get on Elon Musk’s good side, says Peter Hitchens.


Saturday, August 10, 2024

The Overrated Legacy of Margaret Thatcher | Peter Hitchens

Jul 22, 2024 | In this clip Peter Hitchens' proposes that the principal achievement of Margaret Thatcher was the industrialisation of the country, which led to the closure of numerous factories and a shift away from the UK being a major manufacturing nation. Hitchens continues to argue that Margaret Thatcher is overrated by conservatives and was not truly a conservative herself, but rather an economic liberal.

Monday, January 15, 2024

Peter Hitchens: Britain Is No Longer a Great Power

Jan 15, 2024 | “British politicians seem to think that we’re still the great power, when we’re not.” Peter Hitchens discusses UK strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen and the Conservative Party’s electoral prospects on TimesRadio.

Sunday, August 20, 2023

Peter Hitchens: The Rage Against God

Jan 5, 2016 | Eric Metaxas interviews the perspicacious Peter Hitchens, brother of the late Christopher Hitchens, about his book The Rage Against God.


WIKIPEDIA: Eric Metaxas.

Saturday, January 21, 2023

Peter Hitchens on Trade Unions, Tony Blair and the End of the Monarchy | Downstream

Premiered Jan 15, 2023 | This week’s guest is an iconoclast, although he may not be comfortable being labelled that way given his devotion to christianity. Among his colleagues on the right, he stands out as someone who is genuinely thoughtful and perhaps as one of the few who could be described as a genuine conservative. Aaron meets Peter Hitchens to discuss abortion, the Soviet Union, and how to make a good cup of tea.

Sunday, January 23, 2022

Peter Hitchens : Reclaiming Our Freedoms

Jan 21, 2022 • In this direct interview, John is joined once again by the peerless Peter Hitchens for a lively discussion about today's pressing issues. Peter assesses the government response to Covid in the UK, warning that the British have been 'trading their freedom for security'. He turns his singular mind to questions of vaccinations, recent scandals in the academy, the Julian Assange saga, education failures in Britain and what the future holds for the Chinese state and people.

Peter Hitchens is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. He currently writes for the Mail on Sunday, where he is a columnist and occasional foreign correspondent. He regularly engages with a great many topics in public debate on major television & radio networks and at universities around the world.

Peter is currently working on his tenth book – a critique of the modern British education system. His past works include The Abolition of Britain and The Rage Against God.

A former Trotskyist, he partly attributes his return to Christian faith to his experience of socialism in practice, which he witnessed during his years reporting in Eastern Europe and later from Moscow during the collapse of the Soviet Union.



Peter Hitchens’ brother was the late Christopher Hitchens.

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

British Police Have Transformed Into a Tool for Enforcing the State's Will -- Peter Hitchens

Oct 17, 2021 • Peter Hitchens discusses the British police's historic transformation into a form unrecognisable from decades past. He argues that the British police were once unique in the world. They were an important conservative & very English institution which was set up in complete distinction from continental police forces. Parliament had seen European police forces become tools of oppression. They were armed & uniformed state police whose job was to enforce the will of the state -- and it was not felt that such a body should exist in Britain. Consequently, the British police force that was set up was very different: unarmed, not given special powers, limited in their abilities. This is no longer the case.

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Should the Government Be Reviewing Medicinal Cannabis? | Alexis Conran


The controversial topic of legalised cannbis use for medicinal purposes has divided many members of the public, as well as senior politicians. Journalist Peter Hitchens tells Alexis Conran that it should not be legalised as it will do more harm then good, and clashes with Saira Khan.

Sunday, September 06, 2015

Peter Hitchens: We Won't Save Refugees by Destroying Our Own Country


MAIL ON SUNDAY: Actually we can’t do what we like with this country. We inherited it from our parents and grandparents and we have a duty to hand it on to our children and grandchildren, preferably improved and certainly undamaged.

It is one of the heaviest responsibilities we will ever have. We cannot just give it away to complete strangers on an impulse because it makes us feel good about ourselves.

Every one of the posturing notables simpering ‘refugees welcome’ should be asked if he or she will take a refugee family into his or her home for an indefinite period, and pay for their food, medical treatment and education.

If so, they mean it. If not, they are merely demanding that others pay and make room so that they can experience a self-righteous glow. No doubt the same people are also sentimental enthusiasts for the ‘living wage’, and ‘social housing’, when in fact open borders are steadily pushing wages down and housing costs up. Read on and comment » | Peter Hitchens | Sunday, September 6, 2015

Thursday, March 06, 2014

Peter Hitchens on Ukraine: Don't Lump Those Who Want Change in with Neo-nazis


On the most wanted list - international arrest warrant is now out for the head of a Ukrainian neo-nazi group. Russian prosecutors accuse him of publicly inciting terrorist and extremist actions. And concerns are growing over neo-nazi movements gaining power in the wake of the ousting of the old administration. To talk more on the tension within Ukraine and the diplomatic spat, RT's joined by London-based journalist Peter Hitchens.