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Peter Hitchens

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Grenfell should stay standing as a warning to our complacent, self-satisfied society. We're not a big power - but a failing state with wonky nuclear missiles

Grenfell should stay standing as a warning to our complacent, self-satisfied society. We're not a big power - but a failing state with wonky nuclear missiles

Back in June 2017, I said that the charred ruin of Grenfell Tower should be kept as a memorial to national stupidity.

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Peter Hitchens

A crazy person can kill you in a few seconds with a pen, a screwdriver or a chair leg. We must stop ignoring the REAL reason that drives the likes of Southport child-killer Axel Rudakubana to violence

A crazy person can kill you in a few seconds with a pen, a screwdriver or a chair leg. We must stop ignoring the REAL reason that drives the likes of Southport child-killer Axel Rudakubana to violence

Most of us never have struck and never will strike another adult with our fists, let alone wield a weapon. But a dangerous, crazy person can kill you...

05.02.2025 2

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Peter Hitchens

Bombshell Lucy Letby evidence I saw today blows the case apart... and exposes an unknown gaping mystery at the heart of her trial

Bombshell Lucy Letby evidence I saw today blows the case apart... and exposes an unknown gaping mystery at the heart of her trial

The prosecution case in the Lucy Letby affair is dead, but it may take a while to grasp how dead it is. Nobody can say for sure she is innocent, but...

04.02.2025 1

Mail Online

Peter Hitchens

If the police have nothing to hide on Letby briefing, why not tell me what happened?

If the police have nothing to hide on Letby briefing, why not tell me what happened?

Cheshire Police have just splatted themselves in the face with a large custard pie. One part of their large bureaucracy foolishly denied something to...

02.02.2025 2

Mail Online

Peter Hitchens

I have a sneaking suspicion why the Southport child-killer Axel Rudakubana suddenly turned to violence at the age of 13...

I have a sneaking suspicion why the Southport child-killer Axel Rudakubana suddenly turned to violence at the age of 13...

A society that does not think does not deserve to survive. The national reaction to the case of mass-killer Rudakubana is unthinking from top to...

25.01.2025 3

Mail Online

Peter Hitchens

Like millions, I once wanted to be Bob Dylan. But the truth is that he was in thrall to Communists - and we were entranced as we hurried off to our moral doom

Like millions, I once wanted to be Bob Dylan. But the truth is that he was in thrall to Communists - and we were entranced as we hurried off to our moral doom

Millions once wanted to be Bob Dylan. God forgive me, I was one of them. I tell you this because the era of Dylan will soon be over, and those who...

22.01.2025 1

Mail Online

Peter Hitchens

 Starmer may strut the world pretending Britain is still an important player, but he's no more powerful than the King of Legoland. And here are the problems he REALLY needs to confront in broken Britain

 Starmer may strut the world pretending Britain is still an important player, but he's no more powerful than the King of Legoland. And here are the problems he REALLY needs to confront in broken Britain

Rattling through the Ukrainian night in his T-shirt, aboard Kiev 's grandiose official train, Sir Keir Starmer ponders spending yet more money we do...

18.01.2025 1

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Peter Hitchens

Terrifying twist in the Lucy Letby case which means that if she's innocent she could still be behind bars for decades

You know you are innocent. But somehow it has not gone that way in court, and you gape in dismay as the jury foreman declares you guilty.

15.01.2025 2

Mail Online

Peter Hitchens

Why I'm BEGGING you to read these disturbing new claims in the Lucy Letby case

In the words I reproduce in this article, there is something very shocking about the Lucy Letby case. It comes from a speech made in the House of...

11.01.2025 1

Mail Online

Peter Hitchens

Steve McQueen's blockbuster Blitz is propaganda dressed up as historical fact - with racism on every street corner and the Communist Party portrayed as heroes

It is hard to beat a good nostalgic war film at this time of year.  Watching danger and adversity from the warm safety of the sofa, while the frost...

18.12.2024 1

Mail Online

Peter Hitchens

Why I believe Lucy Letby’s trial was unfair

Even Horace Rumpole could not have secured an acquittal for Lucy Letby. The more I look at this case, the more I suspect that there could never...

12.09.2024 10

The Spectator

Peter Hitchens

School days / Tried and tested by the Common Entrance Exam

This is about something that did not happen to me at school, an exam I dreaded, but never had to take. It was the only examination that ever really...

09.09.2024 1

The Spectator

Peter Hitchens