Peter Hitchens
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- Sep 27, 2026
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China shoots democrats, yet we roll out the red carpet: PETER HITCHENS (opens the original)
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The truth about power is found in actions not in speeches. The sight of the US military literally on their knees as they smoothed the red carpet for China's tyrant at a Washington airbase is the true image of our era. Peking's leader stands for a regime which murdered democracy in its country by shooting down democrats in the heart of its capital. The same regime long ago seized poor Tibet and is even now crushing the Uighur people in the province of Sinkiang. Needless to say, it is deeply hosti
The police don't care why the country stinks of weed: PETER HITCHENS (opens the original)
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So here we are in the country where free speech is legal but you need to be very careful what you say, while marijuana is illegal and the whole place stinks of it. For yes, it is still very much against the law, even to possess this pungent drug. The offence – on paper – carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison plus an unlimited fine. But if you think this is enforced you must be joking. Even police who try to do so find their efforts end up in ‘out-of-court disposals’, i.e. the offend
It's ludicrous to have had this two-year, £18m inquiry into Lucy Letby (opens the original)
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Has Lady Justice Thirlwall spent the past two years on the Moon? This must surely be the only way she could have remained so utterly unaware of the hurricane of new evidence which has torn the case against Lucy Letby to tiny shreds. I have no wish to be unfair to the distinguished judge and lawyer, but she has put herself in this ludicrous position. She has loftily defied suggestions that she might steer her huge, vastly expensive ship away from a rather obvious reef. Yesterday, her report offer
One day these lumpy stormtroopers we're laughing at could be in charge (opens the original)
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It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at the lumpy stormtroopers deployed on our streets (including the street outside our offices) last week by the new national figure ‘Tommo’. It would also be hard not to cackle at Kent Police’s description of their carefully-planned appearance on Dover streets last weekend as ‘spontaneous’. Tommo is a retired kidnapper, who failed at that ancient trade, and also (so we are told) a born-again Christian. I am tickled by the idea of ‘Tommo’, real name Dani
PETER HITCHENS: How 9/11 became a pretext for a new age of censorship (opens the original)
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The whole Free World went crazy on September 11, 2001, 25 years ago tomorrow. It broke our spirits, and if we don't cure this madness soon, there will not be a Free World for much longer. Travellers in airports shuffle like convicted criminals through special machines that scan their breasts or testicles, and are forced to take off items of clothing by officious, blank-faced guards who will pounce on any infraction or sign of resistance. At least one American airport, in Houston, Texas, for many
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