Peter Hitchens Recommends The Pact

From: What is the point of tourists' checks and tests if migrants can just walk into Dover?



A woman-dominated story; is it feminist?

Peter Hitchens on Helen Andrews' Book on Boomers

From a recent print edition. The great @ClarkeMicah is probably the first writer who has ever suggested that @herandrews "is not mean enough." https://t.co/MlfET6cHqR

— The Lamp (@thelampmagazine) June 7, 2021

Liberty Is Being Targeted in the Anglosphere

Look, this is important. Britain is being ruled by decree, like some banana republic. Parliament is dead. What are you going to do about it? https://t.co/B4cOPhVMoS

— Peter Hitchens (@ClarkeMicah) September 6, 2020

It never ceases to amaze me how the sense of Australians being independent, even wild people doesn't at all comport with the creepy totalitarian government they live under https://t.co/NdW9i6a5WH

— Arthur Bloom 🇺🇸 (@j_arthur_bloom) September 7, 2020

Peter Hitchens, Chad?

Peter Hitchens Vs The Mob.

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— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) June 17, 2020

PETER HITCHENS: As the Left now controls every lever of power, we face nothing less than Regime Change

Peter Hitchens on the UK Lockdown

Related:

Peter Hitchens on COVID-19 and Political Liberty

Hitchen's Concern for the Loss of Political and Civil Liberties During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Peter Hitchens: We Love Big Brother

More from Hitchens, most recent blog post first.
The Frightening Implications for Liberty of the Shutdown - An explanation of the Use of Law to Deprive us of Freedom of Movement and Assembly
There's Powerful Evidence This Great Panic is Foolish. Yet our freedom is still broken and our economy crippled
PETER HITCHENS: Is shutting down Britain – with unprecedented curbs on ancient liberties – REALLY the best answer?

Of course, he is not the only conservative to raise the alarm about the possible loss of liberty. But what sort of political rejection of such measures would be possible, even if people could be energized to defend their liberty?

See also:
The Modern State During COVID-19​ by Jonathan Harris
We should not surrender our liberties to fight the virus.


A different view: We Are All Totalitarians Now by Guillaume Durocher
Coronavirus Brings Back the Spirit of the Polis


Also: 
Is Hungary’s Orbán Using the Pandemic to Impose Dictatorial Rule? by Will Collins

But VD supports and trusts Orban.

Peter Hitchens on Never Look Away

Some Thoughts on a Fine New Film 'Never look Away'

An Endorsement of The Highwaymen

Peter Hitchens:

I can still remember the explosive effect of the film Bonnie and Clyde more than 50 years ago. The violence, now normal, was deeply shocking, the suggestion of sympathy for two rather sordid gangsters was subversive.

So when I heard of The Highwaymen, a film telling the story from the side of the lawmen who hunted the pair, I was anxious to see it at the cinema. Alas, it never made it. I was forced to watch it at home on a subscription service.

I thought it rather good. The depiction of Depression America and the ghastly scenes when the two dead criminals are put on display are especially worth seeing.

But it has no superheroes or special effects, so someone somewhere assumed it would not be good box office. A pity, and can our cinemas survive long with such an attitude?

Franco: Anatomy of a Dictator by Enrique Moradiellos

I.B. Tauris

Peter Hitchens: A New Biography of Francisco Francoby Enrique Moradiellos at First Things

Does Hitchens have a Romantic view of liberal democracy?

His rule was not Christian or lawful and could not possibly draw its authority from God, however much Franco might have liked it to. Its origins lay in violent rebellion against the legitimate government, always hard to square with scriptural views of authority. Franco’s state rested on a foundation of bayonets.

What modern nation-state doesn't rest on a foundation of bayonets? Please.

The Communist Infiltration of Great Britain

Peter Hitchens tells the story for Daily Mail.

History Extra Interview with Peter Hitchens

The good war?

Peter Hitchens's Latest Book

Daily Mail: Peter Hitchens writes a book challenging all we think about WW2

Peter Hitchens on Cultural Marxism

What happened to Marxism? My explanation in the Spectator of how 1960s revolution took over the world
A Podcast on Communism's revival as a great pink blancmange of political correctness and sexual revolution

Peter Hitchens on the Suffragettes

He doesn't seem to go far enough in his criticism of the axiom for which they acted, egalitarianism.

Peter Hitchens on Jordan Peterson

Jordan Peterson doesn’t go nearly far enough
The Canadian psychologist may speak to millions – but not to me

Hitchens on the Darkest Hour (and Churchill)

Initial Thoughts...

Reactions to Charlottesville

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Peter Hitchens
Vox Day: Stupidity is No Substitute for Strategy
James Howard Kunstler
Jared Taylor

The "moderate" speaks -- Rod Dreher's last hurrah for civic nationalism and White Racial Terrorism.

Peter Hitchens on First Light

Reflections on 'First Light' a memoir by a Spitfire pilot, Geoffrey Wellum

I probably agree with his first paragraph in regards to the "Greatest Generation":

As I grow more and more disenchanted with the myths about World War Two, what do I think about those, such as my own father, who took part in it and endured hardship and danger in defence of this country? Actually, my respect and admiration for them grows. They had all been through the 1930s, that ‘low, dishonest decade’. They had, almost always, a poor political and strategic grasp of the events that were to engulf this country. They had not been prepared in any serious way for what they had to face. Those who suddenly called upon them to fight and possibly die, were themselves too old to face the consequences of their own policies.

But did the Greatest Generation win the war but lose the peace?

Liberalism and Statism

Talk about the error of liberalism is not enough by itself; it goes hand in hand with statism, and those who use it for the sake of amassing power must be discussed as well. Liberalism is the tool of the modern nation-state that seeks to be all-encompassing, and liberal philosophers are useful idiots at the service of the state.

Peter Hitchens:

What were all these things about? Why, personal autonomy. Their central slogan was ‘I can do what I like with my own body and nobody can stop me. How dare you tell me what I can do with it?’

The paradox, well understood by Aldous Huxley, is that the person who proudly yells this battle cry also meekly accepts that in return he must surrender his mind, his privacy and his wealth to the power of the parental state.

In Michael Booth’s book, it all came together in an intentional, deliberate pattern. These things are connected. And it is the absence of the Christian conscience which makes them possible, and which is their enemy and rival. The new all-powerful parental state, the war against the married family, the scorn for conscience, the loud demand for personal autonomy and the rage against those who suggest it is in any way limited by morality or law, are all one cause, reborn in the West since the collapse of the USSR and advancing fast on all fronts. I saw it in Moscow and after my return from there, but instinctively. As so often, my instincts were right, and it has taken long years for my understanding and knowledge to catch up with them.

The Almost Nearly Perfect People: The Truth About the Nordic Miracle
NPR Interview