I wouldn't, and I probably shouldn't, bother on Good Friday.
But the decision of The Sun and of the Daily Telegraph to go full Pravda over last night's debate indicates just how demob happy they have both become.
Once the Hillsborough Inquest has come to its conclusion, then The Sun will set, certainly within a month, probably within a fortnight, and possibly within a week.
Its readers have in any case started to see that their paper has only ever been a gigantic public school joke at their expense. Have you ever met anyone from The Sun?
We all know about the travails of the Daily Telegraph. The unions ought to buy it. If only to stop Tony Blair from doing so. Well, all right, not only for that reason. But for that reason, among others.
Speaking of the Murdoch papers, of the Telegraph Group papers and of Tony Blair, the deal with Iran is a splendid riposte to all the right people.
Of course, there has never been an Iranian nuclear weapons programme, it would have been no threat to any of the Sextet even if it existed (Iran is now actively allied to them, to us, in multiple and increasing ways), and Iran has hilariously been "two years away" from the Bomb for over 20 years.
But even while maintaining the pretence, this deal can still be sold as indisputably better than the only available alternative. A war that was never going to happen can be presented as having been averted.
On which note, as will become apparent over the next 10 years, I have just had a Joel 2:28/Acts 2:17 moment, this being the day for fulfilments of the Old Testament in the New.
Speaking of the Murdoch papers, of the Telegraph Group papers and of Tony Blair, the deal with Iran is a splendid riposte to all the right people.
Of course, there has never been an Iranian nuclear weapons programme, it would have been no threat to any of the Sextet even if it existed (Iran is now actively allied to them, to us, in multiple and increasing ways), and Iran has hilariously been "two years away" from the Bomb for over 20 years.
But even while maintaining the pretence, this deal can still be sold as indisputably better than the only available alternative. A war that was never going to happen can be presented as having been averted.
On which note, as will become apparent over the next 10 years, I have just had a Joel 2:28/Acts 2:17 moment, this being the day for fulfilments of the Old Testament in the New.
I do not speculate as to whether I am still one of the young men who see visions, or whether I am now one of the old men who dream dreams.
Perhaps I am in the period of being both at once? It certainly feels that way this afternoon.
thanks for sharing, nice article
ReplyDeleteGreat to see Peter Hitchens firmly back in the UKIP camp on BBC Question Time last night.
ReplyDeleteHitchens "Nigel Farage correctly said at the start that this TV debate was six-against-one. Six pro-EU, pro-immigration Establishment parties against one party that stands against the liberal Blairism that has infected them all.""
I was glad to see the audience concur with Peter that he was the only genuine leader in the debate.
He didn't say to vote for UKIP. In view of last Sunday's column, he will look very silly indeed if he does say that.
DeleteHe has never advocated a UKIP vote at a General Election. He never will. Or, if he does, he will never be taken seriously again.
He said vote Labour on Sunday, almost the words. Truth is, with his support for publicly owned railways and utilities complete with power stations burning coal from nationalised pits, Hitchens is like one of those very left-wing but not remotely Marxist Labour MPs with extremely traditionalist views on social issues and a strong hostility to foreign influence from the EU to American/Israeli wars. Not in the least his background, but where he seems to have ended up as the posh Ronnie Campbell.
DeleteThe posh Ronnie Campbell? Heavens, what a thought! But I see what you mean.
DeleteHitchens says that he has not registered to vote in 30 years, so he cannot have voted at a General Election since 1987, which he also says was his one and only Tory vote.
He is not at all what people think, nor does he claim to be. He even wants to scrap Trident.
You are the posh Ronnie Campbell, Mr. Lindsay.
DeleteThere really is no answer to that.
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