Peter Hitchens' Half Hour | 31-October-22

[@talktv]

What do you think of daylight saving time?

[@youngoldboy3430]

Part of the rhythm of the seasons.

[@sqwalnoc]

set time to noon=12am then leave it like that

[@porkpiecap]

Daylight Saving? Daylight is always the same. They are just forcing you get up and go to bed an hour earlier. Those who want to do that can always do that without moving the clock!

[@earthstick]

Get rid of it

[@sillypuppy5940]

Ridiculous and disruptive to those who have sleep difficulties.

[@fraserbailey6347]

There is more sense in this half hour than in the whole of the rest of the media's output each week.

[@goodyeoman4534]

The illegal immigration of culturally incompatible people should be the only issue in this country. It is more important than the survival of the NHS, the EU or the Covid charade. Every year we do nothing is another nail in the country's coffin.

[@jimmybobby4824]

The legal migration if incompatible people is fine though

[@jamesrodgers3132]

Do you think the politicians really don't know that? They do, and that's the worst part.

[@Max-lf3tx]

Talk Radio showing mostly women and children when discussing the crossings is a disgrace. It's +95% men between the ages of 18 and 40.

[@Matmus]

They probably get the video from another company..

[@Max-lf3tx]

@@Matmus Maybe they shouldn't.

[@googlecontrolled]

Priti Patel made it a criminal offence to film the migrants arriving at Dover despite filming what you can see being legal so it will be footage from years ago that the government approves of to lie to us.

[@johndixon3987]

Peter hitchens is very magnetic. Good on mike for getting him on every monday . For last couple of years.

[@starskyarsky8374]

His brother was much better.

[@catchy_tune]

His socialist past allows him to criticize the current state of family life, an opposite position from the Capitalists which work to weaken it to get more women in the workplace and thus keep the cost of labour as low as possible.

[@Churchcommunity1]

Peter Hitchens is a Legend!

[@prodigygirl1]

Sheep

[@troublington]

@@prodigygirl1 Goat

[@mariogmajner6549]

@@troublington Pompous buffoon

[@spotcatsteve3752]

If only he was PM.

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

A shame he took the 💉 and gave up the fight. Also that he won't touch things like the WEF.

[@maritaaarrestad7874]

Gotta love him. I am cheerful and optimistic by comparison. 🎃

[@keithcowell4476]

The French are escorting them across, has that escaped your notice?

[@kenrehill8775]

Nope, I live here, happy that we do it.

[@earthstick]

12 is good as the base of a number system. It has more factors than 10. 2,3,4 and 6 instead of just 2 and 5. It means you can divide more numbers precisely.

[@jamesrodgers3132]

@A. Fox Subjugation

[@e.g.7612]

Great job host and Peter

[@Isisbridge]

When police attend neighbour disputes, they so often say "We can't take sides," not realising that this is effectively siding with the aggressor, as the aggressor will just keep on with his harassment, knowing that the police aren't going to do anything.

[@humanbeing4841]

I have a problem with the term "international law" because it implies that there is an international government which is essentially ONE WORLD government.

[@jimmybobby4824]

There is ! Lol

[@spotcatsteve3752]

Why do news channels always use the footage of women and children? Even Talk TV ffs.

[@MrMjp58]

I agree with Peter on the time issue. I hope he will do a piece on the new BBC series on the SAS. I tried the first ten minutes last night and had to turn it off. I thought it was appalling in so many ways.

[@SJ-np4cz]

Agree, unwatchable. I understand it isn’t a documentary so some dramatisation was expected but the overall style was really bizarre.

[@MrMjp58]

@@SJ-np4cz Thanks for the reply. I often feel the BBC is trying to recast history in it’s own (modern day) image.

[@algie-t2w]

The BBC needs to be put over to subscription. Let the tedious parasitic middle class lefties subscribe and stop being subsidised by the majority of the British public.

[@Ruda-n4h]

@@MrMjp58 Terminate with extreme prejudice.

[@Davie63]

In the Czech Republic it is 6, 10 and 18 eggs in most Soper markets. There is also the option for a 20 or 30 pack too.

[@ccdg175]

Can we actually make this half an hour now? 20 minutes is not enough. We want more Hitchens!

[@malfunction8165]

I wish I lived on planet Hitchens, life mut be so easy, every problem has an easy fix.

[@goodyeoman4534]

You clearly don't listen to what he actually says, if that's the best straw man you can come up with.

[@malfunction8165]

@@goodyeoman4534 WTF is a straw man????

[@Ruda-n4h]

@@malfunction8165 A form of argument and an informal fallacy of having the impression of refuting an argument, whereas the real subject of the argument was not addressed or refuted, but instead replaced with a false one.

[@joanneleeson516]

I love Peter Hitchens.

[@alanwilliams3677]

The French don't want the immigrants. France is saving money, on welfare payments, etc, by allowing immigrants to leave. Perhaps we could offer to compensate the French for all costs incurred to keep the migrants there. Pay for their accommodation, their schooling, health care, etc. Or perhaps evict the native English to make more space for people who are clearly meant to replace us anyway.

[@goodyeoman4534]

Their Socialist elite clearly do. Not sure about the regular French citizenry.

[@joeclarke7048]

You forgot the "oh, wait... 🤔"

[@kenrehill8775]

No, we don’t want them here in France.

[@alanwilliams3677]

@@kenrehill8775 Nobody other than those with advanced cognitive dissonance , i.e. the Left, want these people. However our governments can't seem to get enough of them. Perhaps they think it will all work out in the end, after a period of chaos and violence.

[@kenrehill8775]

@@alanwilliams3677 I’d like to see some chaos and violence

[@XPLAlN]

Hmm. GMT is known to those of use who actually need to use it as Zulu time. As jargon, Z time, GMT, UTC, and GPS time are all used interchangeably. [as I finish typing this I hear the text read out from on old sailor referring to Zulu time].

[@kenstevens5065]

Even though I am retired when the clocks change either way I feel unwell for several weeks afterwards and this was also the case when I was younger and working with a much more time regulated life. The feelings are tiredness, occasional nervousness and general aches and pains. This goes on for six weeks or so. Leave the clocks alone I say and leave our body clocks alone to adjust to natural time rhythms.

[@royferguson2297]

Try going from Auckland on a ship to the USA, we had to put the clocks forward during the voyage to eventually be on USA time. Be on the Coast for 9 days then head back to New Zealand then clocks went back, also crossed the International date line each way.

[@MMM-qx7wb]

Yes Mr.Hitchens I remember the case of the mother and her disabled daughter being tormented to the end with the mother ending both her and her daughters life, in the most terrible way imaginable. May they rest in Peace

[@jonbaker2102]

We here in Arizona never change the clocks! Ha Ha !

[@drewsale7288]

There's something very Monty Python about this conversation. Reminds me of the Latin grammar scene in The Life of Brian.

[@lapamful]

It is odd, isn't it? It sort of makes me think of a conversation these guys might have after Christmas dinner and plentiful supplies of sherry 😆

[@mariogmajner6549]

@@lapamful Pompous buffoon

[@drewsale7288]

@@lapamful Haha, they're definitely waxing lyrical but I listened to the end because Hitchens is such a great conversationalist.

[@ExpressoMechanicTV]

Funnily enough, I used to have a car with a speedometer that read 40, when it was actually, doing 30. I always drove at 40 in residential areas.

[@kenstevens5065]

A lot of people and most traffic Police (remember them?) believed an accuracy of a vehicle speedometer to be 10%. I read the other week some plod were considering speeding motorists should be prosecuted at the exact equipment checked speed of the vehicle.

[@MrDuanewarren]

Very interesting, but the Swiss recognise GMT hence Rolex GMT, master Watch

[@Ruda-n4h]

I preferred the 'Zoom years' when Peter used to move up to the camera like a mole emerging from the ground. He seems to have lost a bit of energy since then.

[@carldefoe4673]

Wibbling on about trivialities, I thought Peter might discuss that Russia now knows we were behind the blowing up of Nordstream and that bridge, due to the incompetence of Liz Truss not realising Pegasus spyware was on her mobile phone. I should think Germany's not too happy about it either.

[@corneliuscornia4436]

Exactly.

[@earthstick]

I am confident I have a technique to detect Pegasus.

[@sotv2045]

You should read thelawdogfiles posts on nordstream, seems like a much more plausible explanation to me.

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

Precisely. Also notice how he won't touch the WEF and its agenda.

[@erickeane4560]

6 mins in and my head hurts!

[@earthstick]

The clocks changing conversation marks the passing of another year, same old conversation.

[@alg7115]

An important one nonetheless

[@goodyeoman4534]

You'd like it to go away. But it won't. And that's what angers you.

[@charlytaylor1748]

Similarly "NHS in crisis"

[@jamiejack764]

My hero

[@jamesbowden4871]

We still sell eggs by the dozen in Canada as standard. It's weird to buy a half-dozen.

[@joeclarke7048]

Should a deal such as Peter suggests be struck, I seriously doubt whether self-respecting French citizens tasked with "making it so" would cooperate...

[@kenrehill8775]

No, we wouldn’t. We’ve got enough of these scumbags here already, we’re happy to help them get to sht hole uk

[@steadfastandyx4947]

He is, in my humble opinion, correct. Yesterday's clock movement should be the last clock movement.

[@abb5596]

Half an hour = 21 minutes Hitchens savings time

[@manaraaaa3504]

Upload your full programme please. I want to find them constantly

[@indacage271]

Search Talk radio

[@calummackenzie1050]

What are they going on about time zones? Most flights from SE Asia to the US West Coast across the Pacific arrive a few hours before they take off but you lose that time on the return flight.

[@chrisdavie8163]

Why does Peter believe we should carry on following international law and therefore hinder any deportations of people who are unlawfully here? If the international law is broken, years out of date and a threat to British culture and economics then why continue to follow it?

[@chrisbanks5925]

It's natural to wake up with Dawn . . unless your wife is called Mabel.

[@googlecontrolled]

You can't beat getting up for the crack of Dawn 😁

[@robertstewart239]

I live in Brazil, where we use all metric measurements, and yet eggs are sold in dozens!

[@berniefynn6623]

NO problems in New Zealand over summer/winter time.

[@royferguson2297]

Flew to Tokyo from London left London at 1600 arrived in Anchorage Alaska 1400 the same day, left Anchorage and in no time at all crossed the International date line i then got confused.

[@royferguson2297]

I once joined a ship in Auckland flying from London to Auckland when i left the ship i flew Auckland to LA to London always wondered if i gained a day.

[@surajitgoswami1871]

Two smart persons talking about something that if they had asked someone with more experience in the matter (such as a long-haul pilot) their audience would have benefited more. You don't need a Concorde. A regular flight on ANA from Japan to DC arrives at the same time on the same day it leaves Tokyo. Happens all the time at higher latitude. And yes you did arrive in DC before you left London on a Concorde. You just have to fly faster than the five hours of time zone difference.

[@pedazodetorpedo]

Has it been another year already? I must've heard Hitchens railing against Daylight Saving a dozen times now.

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

Yeah, he was talking about it earlier in the year when changed to BST.

[@chapman3713]

I'll have a half decade of eggs please.

[@joannafunnell]

I still buy eggs by the doz.

[@bridiesmith460]

Wasn’t to do with farming? Oh wait, we won’t have farming for much longer if soonak govt gets it’s way.

[@perikleshistory]

Farmers get up with the sun anyway

[@gerardgauthier4876]

I listen to most of Peter's opponents on the legalization of drugs and their big argument is that they can't stop the flow of drugs so why bother... Stopping the flow of illegal drugs is easy. It doesn't even take a lot of thought to come up with a sure-fire way to stop or at least 'greatly' reduce the illegal drug problem.

[@miwoo6zz969]

Sick of seeing that clip on talk they must have waited days to film that woman and child 98% are young men.

[@jamesrodgers3132]

I believe the correct figure is 87%, but yes, it's propaganda.

[@TheNobbynoonar]

LEAVE THE TIME ON GMT.

[@edwardkerrigan5356]

Hitchens is wrong - French supermarkets sell eggs in dozens and half dozens.

[@goodyeoman4534]

Interesting. I'm trying to remember what they sold them in in Slovakia - I think they might have even come in fives.

[@Brimenting]

Hitler's army would be able to just waltz across the Channel in migrant dinghies these days.

[@shaungillingham4689]

How about we ban the French boats from fishing our waters unless they stop the migrants. I agree with most of what Mr Hitchins has to say, but I don't share his admiration for France. The migrants only need to travel 12 miles & RNLI ferrys bring them over, why not take them back.

[@kenrehill8775]

Then watch as the French block sales of seafood from the uk to France.

[@shaungillingham4689]

@@kenrehill8775 fine bring it on, ban everything & anything French, they already behave as an enemy, certainly not a freind.

[@kenrehill8775]

@@shaungillingham4689 I take it you’re not a fishing boat owner relying on those sales to feed your family? Block wine? The Japanese’s will buy it. France doesn’t need the uk for trade, the uk does need France. You can look up the numbers yourself. I understand your emotional reasoning, but you have to be practical.

[@shaungillingham4689]

@@kenrehill8775 you make good points, but maybe we could sell the fish to Japan, it would revive our fishing industry at least. We certainly don't need anything the French make or grow, sure let them sell it elsewhere. I certainly avoid it like the plague.

[@ruth3860]

Peter needs to talk about the reality of 2030 and all its implications as it's just a tad more important. CBDC chats would be more appropriate.

[@coletteellerton1840]

If you were french you would not what them in your country they have more pride than us

[@kenrehill8775]

I live in France, we don’t.

[@davidhirst7227]

Can't they find anything more important to discuss?

[@martynblackburn9632]

Like royalism?

[@neilgibbs1973]

Can't you find anything more important to comment on?

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

Like the WEF, like the Great Reset, like Agenda 2030 - nope. Both of these highly established journalists won't touch these subjects - which says a lot about their character.

[@davidhirst7227]

@@alphabetaxenonzzzcat Yes - there's a few that skirt round the edges (the likes of Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Mark Steyn, Neil Oliver etc.) but nobody tells it like it is. We are in immense danger with the likes of WEF, UN, WHO led by people like Bill Gates, George Soros, Anthony Fauci and the large Global Corporate and Financial organisations who pull the strings of all politicians who head the western governments. Have you watched Tim Gielen's video: Monopoly - Who owns the world? He articulates in ways that I never could about what's going on around the world. Well worth watching.

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

@@davidhirst7227 No - I haven't watched that video. Thank you for the recommendation. I'll get around to that right away.

[@royferguson2297]

Stop the benefits no hotels they will stop coming.

[@omarlittle-hales8237]

Shalom, Salam, Peace. 1. Change The Law, Allowing All Boat Refugees To Be Sent Straight To Rwanda. 2. Detention Centre In Rwanda, Also Using Hostels & Hotels. 3. Home Office Processing Office In Rwanda. 4. All Of The Above Will Save Millions Of Tax Payer's Money.

[@goodyeoman4534]

The Rwandans can bet a bit hacky and slashy when faced with a group of people they don't like. Not that I mind, ofc.

[@omarlittle-hales8237]

@@goodyeoman4534 Shalom, Salam, Peace. The UK Government Has Paid 120 Million So Far, But We Have Not Sent Even One Refugee, Our Laws Need Updating & Changing.

[@thomasriedel7583]

Continental Europe is "Europe?" And what continent does Britain belong to? Is it its own continent?

[@jamiejack764]

4.12

[@Libertariun]

Is TalkTV on any other platforms than this heavily censored one? I’d like to stop supporting this.

[@80thiconoclast]

I'm a fan of Peter, but it frustrates me that he doesn't he realize cannabis is probably popular amongst criminals merely because it's popular in general. I hate the stuff, but I've never heard anyone except Hitchens suggest it made people violent. Does he think it makes them delusion to the point that they are willing to be violent? I wish he would explain. I'm sure pizza is also popular amongst criminals.

[@Sam-gr5ij]

oh do you have to keep talking over Peter?

[@stephfoxwell4620]

We count in 5s ,12s and 60s, especially for time as our illiterate ancestors counted on their hands. Five fingers. Also by pointing to the flanges of the fingers with the thumb.3×4=12. 5×12=60.

[@steadfastandyx4947]

But it won't be. Concrete is king.

[@russd2681]

We live in a country where premeditated illegal immigration has no meaningful connotation or consequence. Like the US. And hence civilisation is disintegrating here, and there, before our eyes. The progressives are desperate to discredit reality and the marginalise the use of the word ‘invasion’. Not difficult to understand why, because if they allow that rhetoric to gain traction, then people here and elsewhere might just take matters into their own hands, on the beaches and in the streets. If allowed to continue then that’s where this ends, logically. Border security is the most basic and critical government function. Without it any government, wherever on the political spectrum, will eventually lose control of the people. Over the winter, build a big prison near Dover. Doable in 4-6 months. Write the legislation and pass it through parliament. When the prison is built, put everyone arriving in dinghies straight in it indefinitely, pending deportation. No hotels, no benefits, just a cell. Getting in the dinghy is crazy if arriving in the dinghy results in imprisonment. The ECHR won’t allow it, so leave the ECHR. Become the progressive’s global pariah. Solve the problem. Before it’s too late for all of us. And the big prison we built? When it empties because the dinghies stop arriving, we can use it to alleviate overcrowding in our home grown prison population.

[@mw89181]

You talk too much sense for the modern world. Things will only get worse. It’s time to jump ship me thinks

[@tomsuibney9093]

To much to comment on....were jung & freud really helping society ,arcadian rythym & such knowledge. ..tools in the wrong hand s...i knowe that i knowe nothing ...

[@adamski320]

“Twelve is rather a good base for a calculation” Not as good as 10 though Peter.

[@earthstick]

It’s better. More factors means more numbers can be divided precisely.

[@goodyeoman4534]

12 is better for division, 10 easier to multiply - even for our comprehensive graduates . . .

[@adamski320]

@@earthstick that’s a reasonable position but for me (and most other engineers) the convenience of standard form trumps additional factors

[@earthstick]

@@adamski320 Mechanical engineering I assume. I agree there are nuances. But FYI floating point units in processors represent numbers in standard form, but base 2 rather than base 10 or 12. Base 2 can represent almost nothing precisely. Also, you can have standard form in any base, 10, 2 or 12.

[@adamski320]

@@earthstick chemical originally, now more financial. Well, mortgages don’t pay themselves. You are right, of course, any base can be represented by standard form but I have seldom seen a representation that makes calculations easier than base 10. Binary is fine for machines but us dece(??) Digited folk have a natural affinity for base 10. Excuse my terrible latin… been a long time

[@dobythedog]

What nonsense! If moving time by an hour causes heart attacks, nobody would be safe travelling between time zones.

[@steadfastandyx4947]

H S 2 has to be cancelled.

[@johnmoran6330]

Stop speaking over him. Cheers.

[@DaemonZodiac]

Meanqhile the earth is actually flat and does not rotate. One day you lot will catch up.

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

Operation High Jump? That?

[@Ma55ey]

Has mike had a stroke??? He's just been talking utter bollocks for the first 10 minutes of this segment...... what a complete waste of Sir Peter Hitchens time loool

[@roytetwart]

How boring, listening to these two chuntering on. Yawn.

[@paulsidaway4014]

Don't listen then . Lol

[@kenrehill8775]

You know you have a choice to switch off, right?

[@roytetwart]

@@kenrehill8775 Thanks for the stupid reply!

[@kev596]

It's only an hour, what a load of rubbish.

[@corneliuscornia4436]

😃😃👍

[@jamesrodgers3132]

So why do it?

[@kev596]

@@jamesrodgers3132 so it's lighter in the morning, why is a good question.

[@MichaelLowry67]

Graham is a lightweight completely out of his depth in the company of Hitchens.

[@goodyeoman4534]

What about all his profound interruptions ("Yes!", "Quite", "Uhm", "Yeah")?

[@Ruda-n4h]

I think he realises that as the months have gone by.

[@kenrehill8775]

Yep

[@robertjarman4261]

Hitchens is Christian but in the wrong Church.He should look into the Russian Orthodox Church.

[@goodyeoman4534]

He doesn't like all the pomp and ceremony. He prefers the grim, spare, puritanical Anglican style.