What's your opinion on Peter Hitchens?

Typical Right Wing judgmental bigot really.

I think Hitchens is good at calling out the political classes (both left and right) on their bullsh*t, but he is so convinced of his opinions he fails to smell his own bullsh*t at times.

For a serious journalist he also gets too hung up on trivial issues. (Then again he does have to throw some bones to his tabloid audience, who might not appreciate wordy anecdotes about the post-war consensus and the state of the Soviet Union circa 1977.)

I do think a double standard is applied to Hitchens, and that a lot of the stick he gets is because he speaks with a posh accent. Russell Brand, despite being vastly more obnoxious and arrogant than Hitchens, gets a free pass because he's "Essex man wiv a vocabulary, innit".

And while Hitchens' arguments about drugs and addiction may be ill-informed, Brand is fawned over and accepted by the political class as an "expert" on drugs for no other reason than that (a) he has taken a lot of them and (b) he is a popular celebrity. By the same token, Jeremy Clarkson is an expert on the workings of the internal combustion engine, the effects of traffic congestion, and pollution due to motor vehicle exhaust emissions.

Yes we've all heard of Peter Hitchens - a journalist who works for that Tabloid Cavalier Rag the Daily Mail - a newspaper which I've been reading on and off since about age 14 (b1941) - it has no effect upon me what-so-ever since I grew up in a Quaker/Methodist household full of progressive people.

Peter Hitchens has got his head stuck up where the sun don't shine and thinks it's 1954.

But then in a democracy we've have to have all manner of quirt opinion don't we? Even the rude, vulgar and low life sort.

But we don't have to read Peter Hitchens save only to know what the enemy is plotting against us. He talks of an end of things - well, allow me to explain, this is only just the beginning.

You'll see. But then at age 72 I could care less what may or may not happen in 20 years from now, because even if I'm still around, they will shove me off into some corner or other and point their crooked forefinger saying, "look 92" what the Hell does he know.

Well Hitchens, I've been in a war and you have not. I know what it's like to be bombed night after night for the first 3.5 years of my life here in London.

Thus in some small way I know what it's like in a war zone. I was born in one.

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London rose from the rubble of war to be the greatest city on Earth - no thanks to either Itching or the Dilly Smile.

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I can only say one thing about Hitchens:

"The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species."

Except for the divine part, the same could be said of the questioner.

Isnt he the guy in the Daily Mail who reveals immigrant excesses ? I rushed to find a link to illustrate your question.

Either you like someone or you dont. I believe I quite like him the odd time I have remembered reading.him ?

His universal disrespect for politicians is right on the mark. However his orthodox Christian views on sexuality and other personal issues are annoying and old fashioned since morality is a personal thing.

I suppose he's the antidote to that typical left wing judgmental bigot Tony Benn, Dianne Abbot, Harriden Harperson etc etc

No idea why anyone does or would like him. His brother Christopher however, although a bit mad on some issues, was mostly quite wonderful.

No such thing as addiction? He should be forcibly injected with smack for a few months.

I don't necessarily agree with what he says and writes, but I like to read his opinions.