"Burning down your house to get rid of a wasps nest..." a perfect analogy he used for the covid farce absolutely spot on.

@alphabetaxenonzzzcat

11 ай бұрын

Just a pity that he gave up the fight, and said that we had to accept the new restrictions from now on, when he took the 💉.

@trevorsmith7753

10 ай бұрын

@@alphabetaxenonzzzcat So intelligent ... yet clueless about the keelshots!

@rolandhawken6628

10 ай бұрын

He stole it from a quote by Seeres it was originally rats

*I am sick of crime, and the enablers of crime.* Does anyone disagree?

@ubiquitousdiabolus

10 ай бұрын

This is the main reason Americans want to keep their guns.

@FindLiberty

10 ай бұрын

​@@ubiquitousdiabolus ...or, maybe the original intent of the 2nd Amendment was protection from "too much" enthusiastic government that had been known to send forth swarms of officers to harass its own people and attempt to eat out their substance. (read that somewhere, whatever that means?) LOL

Such a perfect analysis of this failed state and the littering, filth and lawlessness that we see everywhere.

@Jukilady

11 ай бұрын

Funny how it’s got worse since allowing illegal migrants into our country imo

@truckerfromreno

11 ай бұрын

Immigrants have destroyed my area. I hate it here.

He’s absolutely bang on. This country has completely lost its way.

@francesbrown5116

10 ай бұрын

Its the US way .

@martinsolomon5500

10 ай бұрын

It’s the French way….

@seansmith445

10 ай бұрын

This country has been doomed since 1945.

@seansmith445

10 ай бұрын

@@1headtheball Yet the elites who profited from the British Empire are the ones building the NWO.

@MrPomdownunder

10 ай бұрын

@@seansmith445 Old people who lived through that era always told me that...

Walking out of a supermarket without paying for a trolley load of goods - why is this happening? It's really quite shocking, never thought i'd witness this in England.

@DieFlabbergast

10 ай бұрын

Or anywhere. Name me a country now or anytime in recorded history where people were allowed to do whatever they liked. Thomas Hobbes foresaw what would happen: he said, quoting loosely, that life without proper government would be nasty, brutish, and short. Britain isn't there yet, but if the present trend continues ...

@francesbrown5116

10 ай бұрын

​@@DieFlabbergastits been happening in the US for months they voted to defund the police now the shops are closing down .

@Thunderbloke2

10 ай бұрын

I did read somewhere that the courts won't bother with crimes less than £250.

@lindenbutters9396

9 ай бұрын

One of the benefits of brexit! Now hang on a minute that is not a benefit! What are the benefits exactly? I rack my brains and can find not one. We certainly have less money and not any freedoms as promised! We are now short staffed in hospitals too.

A medieval church is a lot better than a woke guardian edition board

@josiekaposie5783

11 ай бұрын

do you much prefer your media served up by self serving criminal foreign billionaires

The BBC is the broadcasting wing of The Guardian.

@aedwards4496

11 ай бұрын

You left out the government too, oh and the US stance

@allangilchrist5938

11 ай бұрын

@@aedwards4496 Thank you for your reply. What else would one expect from the State broadcaster. They need to keep the government sweet so they maintain the TV poll tax.

@allangilchrist5938

10 ай бұрын

@dominionphilosophy3698 I agree with you. The Radio Four (our cultural North Korea) Programme Any Questions is like a weekly meeting of a state teaching union. Undoubtedly, the laziest of all professions. At least that other lazy profession of politicians can be voted out. Try sacking a useless teacher.

@jimvanlint8043

9 ай бұрын

I wonder if you've noticed that most of the BBC's morning output and 'The One Show', comes over in a way that's very much like Blue Peter for adults? The BBC also seems to me to be generously handing out verbal 'soma' the mind numbing drug handed out liberally as in Huxley's book 'Brave New World'.

BBC 'news' can disgust me many times in one half-hour.

Peter Hitchens is one of the prominent thinkers of our age.

@josephgonzalez_

11 ай бұрын

Not really. He ridiculed anyone who suggested Russia would invade Ukraine. He has Trumpian love of Russia.

@MrTangolizard

11 ай бұрын

He comes out with some really good points at times but his views on Russia are bordering bizarre and his pessimistic view on the west (sometimes valid) again can be bordering bizarre and almost conspiratorial I get he lived in Russia (he tells us enough) but he mixes up Russia with the Soviet Union to much Russia is owed nothing by the west and doesn’t get to dictate to the world what other country’s do Peter would have Russia making rules over Europe and the world when all Russia is , is a regional power

@millwallholdings

11 ай бұрын

@@josephgonzalez_ Yawnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Peado Joe lover has arrived

@BurtReynolds-qp1jk

11 ай бұрын

That doesn't say much about our age.

@UKAlanR

11 ай бұрын

Just plain wrong - he is often horrendously misguided. If you want to see what a prominent thinker really looks like then check out discussions involving his late brother Christopher

Shop lifting is everywhere --- see it near every day and nothing is done.

@raycorrigan3297

11 ай бұрын

Police underfunded. Torys innit

@gerardhampson9089

11 ай бұрын

I worked for a leading uk supermarket we were told not to try to apprehend anyone shop lifting , but we didn't have any security staff either so they just stood the loss , but i would think now it would be double to what they were loosing then.

@kiwitrainguy

10 ай бұрын

And the legitimate customers pay for it with increased prices to cover those losses.@@gerardhampson9089

The most depressing thing here is reading how much everyone agrees and knowing they’ll scurry like sheep and vote in the same parties that have done the damage in the first place 🤡

@markbeks2019

11 ай бұрын

Agree, utter madness 😮

@jackdeniston59

10 ай бұрын

There are no real options.

@Josephbyrnehistory

10 ай бұрын

very fair point! I'd go with Reform as a form of protest but hardly inspiring. It's not exactly the Vox party in spain etc...@@jackdeniston59

@love-conquers-all

10 ай бұрын

I'd vote reform. They may not be the best but at least they will care about us. While the other main party's are learning a valuable lesson about what the british public will or will not tolerate and Reform may just turn out to be a better party altogether. What we to lose by giving reform a chance. Absolutely nothing

@kennethburke5827

10 ай бұрын

I will never vote for the UniParty ever again.

the law in this country needs to be in favor of households defending their homes and property

I can assure Mr Hitchins that after burglary, the police do nothing.

@toshe.6690

11 ай бұрын

unless your name is Ecclestone and/or you are filthy rich.

@millwallholdings

11 ай бұрын

@@toshe.6690 Sir Starmer should not have any trouble then His minted

@robgusterson2821

11 ай бұрын

​@millwallholdings No doubt if Starmer becomes primeminister, he will nothing about real crime either.

@mileshall9235

11 ай бұрын

Ya'll need to have private gun ownership

@truckerfromreno

11 ай бұрын

Or you're Amir Khan then they try and get your watch back.

Common sense from a superb journalist . Peter Hitchens is a standout observer on what has happened to Britain over the decades since W.W.2 .

@evolassunglasses4673

11 ай бұрын

We got captured by the Global American Empire, its open borders Globalisation project and the post 1945 Liberal paradigm and never broke free.

@UKAlanR

11 ай бұрын

The far-inferior foghorn brother of a sadly-deceased genius

@mikeoglen6848

11 ай бұрын

In what ways, exactly, is his Analysis "inferior" to that of his late brother?@@UKAlanR

@pamriley1326

10 ай бұрын

Ooh..common sense....don't think the so called government knows what that is

Have to disagree. The Guardian lost touch with any form of reality a long time ago.

@hittitecharioteer

11 ай бұрын

The Guardian and the BBC are effectively the same. The election of Blair and his support of Common Purpose advanced "The Left's" progress through the public-sector, The Commonwealth; and finally the private-sector beginning with businesses contracting with the government. For instance, how else could anyone envisage an overtly Blairite Canadian national (Mark Carney) heading the Bank of England? The damage that individuals can do is enormous; but when they act together??? (Blair, Brown, Malloch-Brown, Cameron, Osborne, Carney, Starmer, etc. - ALL of them Common Purpose and in the case of Starmer, also Trilateral Commission. Then factor-in communists like Susan Michie, and entities like Prof.(?) Neil Ferguson. Offer even ONE reason why the UK would surrender ANY sovereignty to EU, NATO, WEF, WHO? This has been planned. By traitors at that.

@evolassunglasses4673

11 ай бұрын

It's even pro war now.

@steadfastandyx4947

11 ай бұрын

Yes. It, they, them are in their own fantasy land.

@erongi233

11 ай бұрын

The Guardian conducted a campaign against the triple lock increases on the state pension. The UK state pension is amongst the lowest in the Western World and triple lock is one way of making the state pension less pathetic.

@TheGava4

11 ай бұрын

And the Daily Mail? The Sun?,Express?All the lies they report.

Thank you Peter for reinforcing, just what I have always thought

Who knew the Edwardian period looked so good in hindsight.

@gtowngtown1601

11 ай бұрын

They had nice windows.

@stuartbritton4811

11 ай бұрын

​@@gtowngtown1601nice everything

There is also a huge racial element that people like Peter are reluctant to talk about. Some in the black community have a deep resentment of the native population and basically view theft as a form of reparations.

@truckerfromreno

11 ай бұрын

Correct. They ALL have to go.

@SzTz100

10 ай бұрын

@@truckerfromreno This issue should be addressed. Saying they have to go is not a realistic solution. But they have to behave and obey the law, or be incarcerated for a long time. Unless this starts happening, they will get more emboldened.

@truckerfromreno

10 ай бұрын

@@SzTz100 We need to shift the Overton window and we do that by talking about repatriation.

@SzTz100

10 ай бұрын

@@truckerfromreno Only the BNP have done that and they didn't get much traction. A lot of these things depend on the general state of the economy, the general happiness index of the British public and geopolitics. Didn't Nick Griffin once say that the Americans told him if he ever came to power they would have no option but to bomb Britain. My guess is it would require a Weimar level decline in the UK to shift the Overton window, I just don't see it happening during peace time.

@truckerfromreno

10 ай бұрын

@@SzTz100 It was Ukip who finished off Griffin. I get your point about decline but that's usually the far left position. It's strange how these things always meet in the middle.

House of Lords....what a mess they've made of it. Thoroughly agree with Hitchens about the far more preferable independent real Lords. Been banging on about it for decades.

@Jukilady

11 ай бұрын

House of Lords should be abolished, they’re not elected and imo not fit for purpose.

@susannamarker2582

11 ай бұрын

Blair hated their independent character. Blair was a marxist at University. He wants people to obey his marxist pro-globalist agenda. So does his disciple Kier Stalin.

I have been collecting old football matches for 41 years and I have only collected 66 matches from the 1950s from the BBC archives. When the Jimmy saville scandal came out and the fact that the BBC had covered it up for 30 years and then the hue Edwards scandal, I realized that the BBC are guarded about these scandals so it's for this reason the thousands of football matches in the BBC archives are guarded and not put on dvd so the British public can see and enjoy these matches that we paid for. They have contempt for the British public. It's another scandal.

The tipping point was 2012. Gay Marriage and exceeding a 6% Muslim population.

@hittitecharioteer

11 ай бұрын

Many tipping-points actually. Election of Blair and his support of Common Purpose advanced "the Left's" advancement through the public-sector, The Commonwealth; and finally the private-sector beginning with businesses contracting with the government. For instance, how else could anyone envisage an overtly Marxist Canadian national (Mark Carney) heading the Bank of England? The damage that individuals can do is enormous; but when they act together??? (Blair, Brown, Malloch-Brown, Cameron, Osborne, Carney, Starmer, etc. - ALL of them Common Purpose and in the case of Starmer, also Trilateral Commission. Then factor-in communists like Susan Michie, and uncertain entities like Prof.(?) Neil Ferguson, the surrender of sovereignty to EU, NATO, WEF, WHO etc. and surely we can all AGREE that this has been planned?)

@DavidSmith-fs5qj

11 ай бұрын

When it reaches 15 percent it will be game over.

@nawaz345

11 ай бұрын

Lol what’s wrong with gay marriage mouth breather?

@grangetowncardiff6935

11 ай бұрын

Nowt wrong with gay marriage, you unthinking bigot. On the other issue, well.....?

@evolassunglasses4673

11 ай бұрын

​@@DavidSmith-fs5qjLondon has gone but Bulkanization can save some of our people culture and civilisation

Mr Hitchens is correct that anarchy is very close. See for example San Francisco.

@mileshall9235

11 ай бұрын

Mob, one party statism.

@mikeoglen6848

11 ай бұрын

What's happened in San Francisco?

They are interested in their own pockets. I don't understand how anyone thinks they want the best for the country.

As always, Peter Hitchens gets it right. Unless the politicians start listening to him, left or right, this country has no future. More importantly, the population need to listen and react.

@markrangers1423

11 ай бұрын

It’s all by design These are clever people In a lawless society your people are scared and anxious This is the perpetual state your masters want you in 😎

Mr Hitchens (as always) the erudite voice of common sense.

@greensgreens5386

11 ай бұрын

I do generally agree with him, he’s totally wrong on drugs though

@j.harrison6744

11 ай бұрын

He's a middle-class doom-monger and coward.

@SagaciousFrank

11 ай бұрын

​@@greensgreens5386, he's totally not. What do you think drives much of the crime in this country? I'll give you a clue, it isn't material poverty.

@goodyeoman4534

11 ай бұрын

@@greensgreens5386 You mean you disagree with his views on drugs. Possibly because you take illegal drugs yourself or have an interest in them being legalised.

@SagaciousFrank

11 ай бұрын

@@goodyeoman4534 , that would be my first guess.

I admire and am grateful to Peter Hichens for all he does, but think he should stop saying that he is not interested in American politics. Perhaps if he were, he would have seen the shoplifting problem coming years ago. Whether we like it or not, America, especially California, is where most of the maddest ideas we copy originate.

@j.harrison6744

11 ай бұрын

And therein lies the problem. That would involve pointing out truths about certain demographics, which Peter has never been willing to broach. He's just a play-it-safe doom monger who offers no solutions. A man trapped in his own middle-class respectability.

@Alv11269

11 ай бұрын

​@j.harrison6744 He had done so a few times till 2012, but he knows if he does that now he'd never be invited again.

@j.harrison6744

11 ай бұрын

@@Alv11269 And, again, therein lies the problem. If he's not willing to speak the truth then he has no right to complain about the mess. He's a coward.

@Alv11269

11 ай бұрын

@j.harrison6744 If he said that even once all of the other good stuff he's got also disappears. Who does that help?

@burtingtune

11 ай бұрын

No, if anything it just backs up his position that this is so deep seated the chances of a solution are slim to non existent. @@j.harrison6744

Great interview and interaction Graham...you are the best !!!

How do we change this and drain the swamp

Back to the 2020 and 2021 setting for these Monday morning masterpieces when Hitch used to come on remotely rather than being in studio. Love it.

@eyup121

9 ай бұрын

Why is it still so difficult to get decent audio/microphones for these interactions?

The BBC is effectively state TV. Of course it operates in such a way. It's how it was meant to run.

@demonhalo67

11 ай бұрын

It is, it's a propaganda mouthpiece for the government.

@offshoretomorrow3346

11 ай бұрын

No. It represents the radical Woke-Marxist elite. The govt is too cowardly and directionless to resist.

@staggabob

10 ай бұрын

The fact that all sides are constantly accusing the BBC of being biased in favour of the other side suggests to me they must be doing something right 🙄

This is what they want Anarcy.And the Goverment will be the Saviour of the people.

@user-lz3vp8rq2s

11 ай бұрын

Usually has a H in it

Very very frightening indeed!

There is always a great divide when it comes to Peter , but I always find his comments to be always relevant . We are indeed in a mess far more serious than many are aware of , his comments on our law enforcement and legal system is extremely relevant . As to how far we are away from the A word is a question that demands answers , but so far no one is answering .😢

Obviously a global issue. Who's the group funding the politics to allow this ? Why are they impossible to stop ?

@m.p.7075

11 ай бұрын

This is the real question of our time. The fact that you only have 4 likes shows that very few people are asking it.

@Bongofurry

11 ай бұрын

@@m.p.7075 or care ?

Peter, as always speaking the truth about this lost nation.

If the uniparty isn't broken at the next GE, it will never be broken... But the herd will keep voting for the uniparty.

Only time anything changes is when these people end up being the victims....but it doesn't happen as the Police are quick to react in these communities.

@goodyeoman4534

11 ай бұрын

You do get the odd murdered or raped politician. And every now and again, one of their little darlings will get robbed by a refugee or die of an OD from one of the de facto decriminalised drugs the government are bent on normalising. But it's not enough by far to turn the tide.

The medieval church founded our schools, universities and hospitals. The best the BBC could come with is Mrs Brown's Boys.

@user-lz3vp8rq2s

11 ай бұрын

Civilisation by Kenneth Clark, I, Claudius, the Forsyte Saga that's only the start. Even Bill and Ben show more intellect than the "woke" screeching hard right loons of Gross Bigotry Long live the GREAT BBC. Proper broadcasting not fascist Gutter Broadcasting Still showing Dirty Dan!

@mikeoglen6848

11 ай бұрын

I don't think 'Mrs Brown's Boys' is the best thing BBC has done at all...

Britain: what it once was, and what it is now! What a stark contrast!!!...

The first thing that Cameron did when he took office was to withdraw the free swimming for children. That about sums him up.

@mikeoglen6848

11 ай бұрын

I didn't know that but I know that Margaret Thatcher withdrew Milk Rations from the children.

Yep not since1997 ….has anyone done anything in the interest of this country

Paul Gavin. The infamous Roy Jenkins is a glaring example of Shakespeares observation that the evil that men do lives after them

Nope. The emperor specifically referenced the atomic bomb in his surrender announcement on Aug 15th. Also the fact that 2 bombs had gone off meant that the Japanese were worried that the Americans wouldn't invade and that they would just bomb them with an indeterminate number of atomic bombs from afar thereby undermining the entire Japanese strategy for prosecuting the defence of Kyushu.

@DieFlabbergast

10 ай бұрын

What you imply may or may not be true: what is more important is that this is ALL hindsight. At the time, most people on BOTH sides were almost certainly unsure what was going to happen or what they should do. It's always like this. The fact that the Emperor referenced the bombs does NOT mean that that was the real principal reason for the surrender. The idea that Russia might actually invade and take over the sacred land of Japan would have been FAR more horrifying to the Japanese leaders and intellectuals than the mere prospect of the death of millions of Japanese citizens (including themselves; they may have been evil and/or mad, but one thing they were NOT is cowardly). But, obviously, neither the Emperor himself nor any other Japanese leader could actually admit this.

My thanks. Carry on! -Seb!

Thank you having Peter on your show. Why does the BBC not report the developing UFO situation?

Lisa Nandy, "Shadow levelling up minister." 🤣🤣🤣

Great guest.

One big ring at the BBC and to think millions of you all still pay for it

I moved to France 20 years ago. Thankfully outside of the immigrant areas in the largest towns it's pretty much crime free and the gendarmes have a pretty tight lid on the few scumbags that there are. But on my visits to England it's getting noticeably worse as I see it in snapshots that people living in the UK become inured to. Public behaviour has deteriorated Crime is quite obvious Homelessness Mentally ill people on the streets The police look like American SWAT teams but seem to concentrate on bullying the public whilst shying away from certain demographics. On my last visit I decided to spend two nights in central Birmingham where I grew up and worked in the 80's. I was shocked at seeing drunks, homeless, aggressive begging and mentally ill people on the streets at 8am when I went out for a morning paper. Drunken behaviour in the early evening in a restaurant. Aggressive gangs in pubs. People sleeping in shop doorways. Anti terrorist barriers blocking off roads. Normal citizens seemed absent from the streets. I visited the bank and the British legion shop and when the staff in both places realised I lived abroad they told me how they hated working in the city as it's now dangerous and the bank staff just said they longed for their retirement so that they didn't have to work there due to the threat of crime and the abuse they received from the public. In north Worcestershire now shops and post offices have armed raids from gangs out of Birmingham. The local hotel is now a migrant camp with gangs of migrants hanging around the streets and children's playgrounds. All that simply didn't exist before....but seems the norm now

Why is he against PR? it will create a proliferation of parties - the opposite of what he rails against.

UK shoplifting is moving towards US crime mayhem. UK always follows the US with a decade lag.

@user-zw5ff4dt8n

10 ай бұрын

Is shoplifting not a reaction too the controlled & deliberate exorbitant rise in food prices. That is theft in itself & these comparatively rich commentators don't cite that do they? Why are these so called insightful commentators not shouting about the absolute theft with food prices going on that are definitely not due too Ukraine or a COVID hangover it is profiteering pure & simple. It is the rich supermarkets & elite rich equivalent to the shoplifting riots in Cameron's early austerity 2010s it is stealing from the poor who are reacting.

Peter Spot on always Common sense We are on same page What happened to England????? Bring back 1950/70 When England was beautiful ❤ Those were the days Suppose golden time and happiness Especially when you were a child.........

The rising criminality is due to the decline in the grip of Christianity. This has been encouraged by liberalism / leftism and so the relaxation of standards, the transfer of responsibility from the self to allegedly unjust social structures, multiculturalism and so on

The solution to this will be tech such as having an app on your phone to gain entry to a shop, facial recognition cameras, and debanking of indiviuals in a cashless highstreet. Oh, and a CBDC that will prevent you from spending your money in a shop that does not like you.

@Cartoonman154

11 ай бұрын

i.e China.

@kiwitrainguy

10 ай бұрын

and those who are shut out of such a system will become even more desperate and violent.

..... meanwhile just down the road from where i live there are twenty coppers sitting in a McDonald's at motorway service station chatting, drinking coffee and playing on their mobile phones, i go in for my hours lunch break each day, they are there when i arrive and still there when i leave. Most of us don't get paid to sit on our a*** .

@clairehall4214

11 ай бұрын

Look at the coppers they remind me of them coppers sitting in a police car eating haribo sweets

@UKAlanR

11 ай бұрын

Perhaps they're also on their lunch break?

@davidmclachlan6592

11 ай бұрын

@@UKAlanR ..... yes that would be their answer to that one, I don't think the rest of the working population of this country get paid to sit around for over an hour for lunch playing on their phones and chatting to their mates, they took over the whole restaurant no one else could get a seat......

As far as I've thought this through, the bomb was dropped as a message to Stalin. Although we will never know for sure, it could well have halted the march of the Red Army and gave them pause for thought.

@kiwitrainguy

10 ай бұрын

Exactly my thoughts. They dropped those bombs in the hope that Japan would surrender before the Soviet Union entered the war against Japan on the 9th of August which Stalin had agreed to. The Japanese on the other hand had a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union at the time and were putting out peace feelers through the Soviets (or at least were intending to). When the Soviets attacked in Manchuria the Japanese saw that that option was now closed and they had no choice but to surrender.

I wonder if Peter saw Barbie as well as Oppenheimer.

Every time i see Peter it makes me sad. I miss his Brother Christopher. I miss hearing his take on current events and his talks and debates. He is/was my hero.

It’s up to the people to vote for Reform Partys and ditch the other 3 useless partys or things will get steadily worse.😊

MG and PH are a powerful combination. Keep it up!

The UK seems to have forgotten they have a navy and borders to protect.

I wish Peter Hitchens would open his mouth when he speaks - his jaw hardly moves and his lips hardly move and those of us who have difficulty hearing he is very difficult !! Shame because he has so much sense to say !!!!

@colinmacdonald5732

11 ай бұрын

Just as well they don't accompany him with thunderingly portentious back ground music, a Sousa march perhaps.

@adoremus4014

10 ай бұрын

You could enable the subtitles.

I think videos like this will be useful in say 10, 20 years. People will ask well why didn't anyone alert the Citizens of the UK to the coming collapse so we could have avoided all the horror and someone will point out well some people like Hitchens did raise the warning but the UK was too far gone at that point and the odds of turning things around were just too big

@thegreatone11

11 ай бұрын

American here, you really think " we" have 10 years? The West has the same end goals. I predict less than 7 years.

@jamietherooster

11 ай бұрын

Our future generations wont ask that's the problem. They are being bred to embrace it, just take a look at our universities and education system. All of the upcoming issues will be blamed on something politically correct such as 'austerity'

What kind of logic dictates that an opposition can not criticise the current government for falling short on something just because that party failed similarly 20 years ago? It's not even rational at this point

Looks like Peter is on holiday with snow outside

There seems to be more police on TV Dramas than in real life!

Where do we go ..from kids to adult to all ages .there is no disipline no respect being taught to people...with a society of such immoral education rather than teaching kids any of the above ..society would rather waste millions on sex ed and allowing ..moral compass to slip so far down . ...... to a lawless country

I disagree with the comment on crime being more prevalent amongst the poor. The Rich just get away with it 😮. Great discussion despite that. The world really has pressed the self destruct button 🔴

Depressing. Sadly my experience with the police suggests he's right.

I don't understand why proportional representation will emphasize the power of the elite as Peter Hitchens stated , When surely it would undermine that very thing. (i.e more voices, more objections = more power to the people). Or I have missed some kind of weird Paradox

It seems to me to be crime in all activities and no one, civil or police to prevent or enforce - local planning, licensing, noise, environmental - in my London borough the local authority seems not just to be impotent, but also disinterested in enforcing or maintaining any sort of a rules based society.

To many policemen sitting behind computers

Okay! Let’s bring back the crusades. That’ll sort it out! 🤣🤘

Massively increase the population, while cutting public services, like the police

Crime rate through the roof but dont you dare protect yourself or your property, as for the police we might as well not have them.

Chris Nolan doesn’t tell a historical story like Spielberg can and does. Bridge of Spies, for example, is far superior to the likes of Oppenheimer narratively speaking. Nolan tries to be far too clever for his own good and often trips over himself, obfuscates the narrative heft for surface gleam, or paper thin motifs and themes that are faux-philosophical. It’s telling that I still think his best film is Insomnia ..

Regarding the last part about the atom bombs: leaders and planners at the time weren't dealing with what historians now know, or surmise, about Japan's intentions regarding surrender. They made their decision to drop the bombs based on seeking an alternative to the nightmare of an invasion of the Japanese home islands in the light of their current experience.

All together now: Oh yes they do!

People can't afford food 😮

As much as Hitchens usually makes sense, his comments regarding the bomb and Japan make none. He actually contradicts himself in this piece without seeming to realize it. He operates through the lens of perfect hindsight, while the historical actors he criticizes could not. As Hitchens points out, the allies reasonably assumed, based on the reputation of German scientists, they were in a close race with Hitler to develop the bomb. It was only years later that they discovered they in fact weren't, but they were operating based on the best information they had at the time. They could only assume their enemy was just as skilled and motivated as they were. We've managed to discover decades later that Japan wasn't motivated to surrender purely by the dropping of the atomic bombs, though pretending they had no role in their decision is sheer fantasy. Unfortunately the British, Americans, and the other allies were not privy to the deliberations of the Japanese high command regarding Stalin. They based their decisions on the best available intelligence that the Japanese were not going to surrender and planned to fight to the last man. They projected there would be enormous casualties and felt the atomic bomb was the best available way to minimize them. It's inconceivable to blame them for not acting on information they had no way of knowing, but that's what Hitchens does here, while seeming to ignore the same in the case of the Germans.

@ianburton9030

11 ай бұрын

Good analysis.

if Peter Hitchens says Oppenheimer is too long I will give it a miss.

@billaitken2989

10 ай бұрын

If Peter Hitchens' has a negative criticism of a film that makes me want to see it.

Henry the eighth would be proud of the BBC "off with your head if you disagree with them " the British Bashing Corporation

I don't understand why people think Guardian-BBC is biased.

Peter live from his sauna in Greenland.

Peter Hitchens "Crime isnt about poverty". Also "Most crime is about poverty". Roger that.

What happened to a discussion about Sixth Commandment?

I really rate Peter Hitchens but reall surprised when he says from 1997 havent looked after the country when Thatcher literally sold off the country to the hightest bidder

For Labour to criticize the tories is just laughable......i have only seen serious crime solved in one country that used to have a history of it ..............EL SALVADOR

LEVELLING UP....? We know that our political parties have lost the plot when they all subscribe to the nonsensical concept of 'Levelling Up....... Ministers, Shadow Ministers and Departments for this idiocy tells us all we need to know about them. James Hennighan Yorkshire, England

mr Hitchens is the gospel tonight

Hitchens 100% correct as always.

If only, we might get some pleasant art out of it

The BBC has a very nice LGBTQ+ and identity 'correspondent ' who sent many fascinating reports from the recent Liverpool gay pride march interviewing some interesting people. The BBC's obsession with women's football, the struggle being black and coping with food prices in grim parts of the country is very sweet and well meaning.

@thegreatone11

11 ай бұрын

😂

@garyoneill545

11 ай бұрын

Now your funny 😃😃😃

@rewdwarf123

11 ай бұрын

Yet another pride march that doesn't take place during Pride month. I don't get it!

@colinmacdonald5732

11 ай бұрын

I quite enjoy listening to Loose Ends on R4, but invariably when a Black artist comes on the show (they're overrepresented) Clive has to ask them how they overcame racial prejudice, clearly these folks are successful and their ubiquity seems to contradict the racism narrative.

Those "bird blenders" make Cameron's father-in-law a LOT of money.

Not just the BBC, But akso the main newspapers

If you want to see where UK is headed, go to San Francisco.

A true conservative govt would 1, Root and Branch pull apart and re build the education department 2. Dissolve the BBC into as a pay channel. 3. Strip the health department any decision making. 4. Review commitments made to global entities like WEF WHO . 5, commit to an open transparent scientific discussion on climate change.

The police provide security for grooming gangs.

There is no difference when watching Russian state media and the BBC!

@kiwitrainguy

10 ай бұрын

Here in New Zealand the RT (Russian Television) channel used to be available (on cable) but about a week after the Russian military invasion of Ukraine it became unavailable. I presume this was in the cause of "Freedom of Speech" and "getting both sides of the argument".

C.P. Snow was an incredibly knowledgeable man but his novels were unbelievably boring. No surprise his books aren't read today.