Aha, the Spectator's cover story is gathering pace. If you were tuned into The BBC's Daily Politics just now, then you will have enjoyed a preview of the terrific scrap this time-shifting proposal could provoke. They had on both Rebecca Harris MP, who is pushing for us to move to Central European Time (CET), and Peter Hitchens, who revealed in his article for us that the government is mi...

After the riots in August, Peter Hitchens criticised “the political correctness of the police”. It’s a criticism frequently made by the Daily Mail, which he writes for. Here, for instance, the Met are described as being “burdened by decades of political correctness,” and “crippled by liberalism”. It may not be definitive proof of the Daily

The fifties were a little before my time, but even so I have a reasonable grasp of what they were like because, growing up in the nineteen sixties, my little corner of Slough was pretty much the same as it was in the decade before. So I remember enough to understand what Peter Hitchens is driving regarding the Beeb's latest attempt to rewrite history with their new drama "The Hour". "They rea...

Peter Hitchens is booed by the Question Time audience as he says people only have themselves to blame for the sexualisation of children.

A questioner on Question Time, quoted verbatim: “Has the government got any teeth when it comes to the sexualisation of young children?” Germaine Greer says the response “has got to come spontaneously from the little people themselves.” Peter Hitchens wants...

In today's NRO, Victor Davis Hanson has a great piece examines the rift that has opened up between the US and Britain since Obama took over the White House: Various irate British observers — from columnists like Peter Hitchens and Geoffrey Wheatcroft to parliamentarians and former cabinet officials — have recently declared the “special relationship” with America to be ...

Over on Peter Hitchens' blog there has been an interesting discussion about Dunkirk. Some people, including Mr. Hitchens (as I understand it) have suggested that Britain's guarantee to support Poland and our declaration of war was both unnecessary and damaging - and that if we had not given this guarantee we may have stayed out of the war and held on to our Empire. Although I agree that ...

Peter Hitchens writes about a cloud no bigger than a man's hand on the horizon, namely the gender imbalance in China. By 2020, there will be 30 million more men than women in the breeding-age section of the population. Hitchens observes: But men without women are altogether more troublesome than women without men, especially when they are young. All kinds of speculation is now seething about ...

Tim Montgomerie made an excellent speech in a debate on David Cameron with Simon Heffer, Peter Hitchens and Kelvin Mackenzie last night. Funny, punchy, carefully crafted. And well worth a read.

I don't know how I can have missed it, but Peter Hitchens reminds us today: Britain has given Tibet to China, thanks to Foreign Secretary David Miliband. Hitchens suggests it's something to do with the credit crunch and the price of China's support for the IMF. China is struggling to provide for its people, and needs (among other things) wood, water and minerals. Tibet is a valuable...