Peter Hitchens

There are aspects of lucid critical thinking about the UK justice system’s history that should inform many other situations around the world.

There are also mixed in with this rational presentation, a series of unfounded grumpy perspectives that are unsupported and contradictory to the realistic process of social development of a country undergoing transformation heavily impacted by new technology and changes in social fabric.

I would wish there was more imagination about a feasible future scenario that would defend the sort of liberty the author advocates. What should the author think about the current state of pervasive monitoring that is happening outside the justice system?

Worth reading and thinking about where you disagree with the author.… (más)

I suppose if Peter has taught me anything, and mind you he has uncovered a fair amount concerning these wonderful British isles that I was thus far happily unaware of, is that there really is a need in this country for true opposition between political parties. The tepid nature of both Labour and Conservative parties, especially at the time of writing this, seem to both champion the same basic lukewarm, myopic, disunited schema of culture (of course one must bear in mind that beneath the callous veneer, which the Tories do ever so enjoy brazenly displaying as some powerful spectacle, so much of what they espouse concerning immigration seems to me to be just thin-skinned rhetoric, serving up largely impractical proposals which merely pander to their home base - just look at Rwanda). As much as I mourn the lost future of Corbyn’s true to form socialist vision of the Labour Party (roll on Mick Lynch) I also have a deep empathy for true card carrying Conservatives (like Hitchens here) who go unrepresented by the embarrassingly shameless MP’s who currently constitute the Conservative party. Peter’s a real thorn in the side for someone like me: but you really do have to admire his barnacle-like tenacity, suctioned on to the sinking ship of this country with his frequent accurate assessments (much to my ideological chagrin) that you can’t help but end up respecting him — even if I disagree with a fair number of his positions.… (más)

I suppose if Peter has taught me anything, and mind you he has uncovered a fair amount concerning these wonderful British isles that I was thus far happily unaware of, is that there really is a need in this country for true opposition between political parties. The tepid nature of both Labour and Conservative parties, especially at the time of writing this, seem to both champion the same basic lukewarm, myopic, disunited schema of culture (of course one must bear in mind that beneath the callous veneer, which the Tories do ever so enjoy brazenly displaying as some powerful spectacle, so much of what they espouse concerning immigration seems to me to be just thin-skinned rhetoric, serving up largely impractical proposals which merely pander to their home base - just look at Rwanda). As much as I mourn the lost future of Corbyn’s true to form socialist vision of the Labour Party (roll on Mick Lynch) I also have a deep empathy for true card carrying Conservatives (like Hitchens here) who go unrepresented by the embarrassingly shameless MP’s who currently constitute the Conservative party. Peter’s a real thorn in the side for someone like me: but you really do have to admire his barnacle-like tenacity, suctioned on to the sinking ship of this country with his frequent accurate assessments (much to my ideological chagrin) that you can’t help but end up respecting him — even if I disagree with a fair number of his positions.… (más)