Peter Hitchens Interview - 'The Abolition of Britain' and other topics

[@kentyoung5282]

Peter is my favorite curmudgeon. Imagine, someone asking you, "what compelled you to write.." and you respond, "nothing COMPELLED me to write...it was a voluntary act!" Classic.

[@NWBwana]

Classic indeed! haha

[@shirleysmith3881]

I love Peter's way of responding in interviews! He always make the interviewer smile or laugh!

[@kamilziemian995]

He is adorable curmudgeon.

[@zenbudhism]

A pedantic response, not curmudgeonly

[@sticksman1979]

His answers to opening questions are always gold. They are always along the lines of "what a damned stupid question you fool!"

[@mazgriffiths8922]

Peter Hitchens should really have his own TV show where a member of the public throws a question at him (it could be ANY question, about anything...) And then through logic, common sense and widespread knowledge of stuff, he gives them a fully thought out and well rounded answer. And all delivered with that lovely voice.

[@micheledibenedetto7780]

Marya this is a fantastic idea, I fear that Hitchens is a rare unique gem that in the next twenty years will be never found anymore ..

[@Dave5843-d9m]

Great idea. Hopefully Peter will see your comment.

[@maiq5228]

Except that he hates TV

[@MrTowton1461]

So refreshing to hear Peter talk compared to the usual drivel we are subjected to from the mainstream media.

[@greedygutsbeerfan7399]

Listening to Peter Hitchens is like listening to a wise old grandfather. So much respect for this man.

[@wolfganghendery8298]

I've just pulled an all nighter and I was completely shattered and about to go to bed when I viewed this interview. I came away completely enthused and wide awake. I always learn so much listening to Peter Hitchens, he is an extraordinarily erudite gentleman and a scholar.

[@Gozzillacia]

Must confess - I overlooked, even dismissed Peter in favour of his more glamourous brother. After hearing this - I think I may have done myself a disservice.

[@markawbolton]

Peter is well worth the time. Like Cristopher you may disagree with him, but you can trust his integrity.

[@KingKhan20000]

Peter thinks much more Outside the box and much of what he has predicted has come to fruition. He is much more mentally capable than Christopher. Christopher however did have much more charisma.

[@seanmoran6510]

@@markawbolton I would say Peter has more integrity as he would loath the cult of personality his brother loved ! As PH has said don’t put people on pedestals. Christopher was all show, a propagandist and polemic who cherry picked issues and history to suit his case. Let’s not forget Iraq 🩸 and perpetual war against Islam let alone any other faith.

[@seanmoran6510]

All that glitters is not gold.

[@d.jparer5184]

Christopher is style, Peter is substance.

[@Austrian-Painter-88]

50 mins of Peter Hitchens. Oh the joy that I feel when I see a new video of him! Lol

[@matinalancaster6254]

agreed

[@1969cmp]

Peter is such a very good speaker and thinker. Do I agree with everthing he says, certainly not, be he is still one of the best.

[@rollovaughan]

Vladimir Putin. Why “LOL” Vlad?

[@mofa9745]

yes, joy ! me too !

[@bennocelt]

ha was just thinking the same

[@vashna3799]

I did use to hate Peter Hitchens, much more of a supporter of his late brother Christopher, who I still admire, but I do realise Peter is not the pompous, moralising right wing elitist I assumed he was. He’s clearly a man of principle and conviction, deeply troubled about the state of the country and does actually care about the people in it .

[@Lytton333]

His brother was for the most part everything you describe Peter as being, except he was left wing. He worshipped Trotsky and the Communist dream in a whimsical poetic kind of way, but he never met a single real working class person in his life. He was a fraud who could quote a lot of writers,and that's about it. He never had one original idea to his name.

[@vashna3799]

Lytton333 agree with some of that. Despite being a member of the Labour Party C Hitchens never had any working class friends, and anyone from the north of England. Yes he admired Trotsky but didn’t worship anyone or anything, and yes, he still maintained he was too the left. But no one better ripped apart religion and religious belief better than him, he loathed all totalitarian regimes and dictators, was one of the best orators ever and never ducked a question or backed down from any challenge.

[@Londonfogey]

@@vashna3799 I often wonder what Christmas was like in the Hitchens household when the family was gathered with Peter and Christopher. What happened when the Queen's Speech or Carols from Kings came on the telly?

[@Dave5843-d9m]

The left of today with its political correctness and nasty insults when someone thinks out of their self imposed confines is shrinking intellectually. Sadly the so called intellectual liberals are heading the same way and moving leftwards.

[@rapturebound197]

@@vashna3799 ...yes well that was all narcissistic bravado before he died and met his creator.

[@The00air]

Great interview, I am blessed to have in my possession a signed copy of the Abolition of Britain by the man himself.

[@EdwardJahk]

same!

[@adambritain5774]

How/where did you both get yours signed? I have a few PH books and would love at least one signed, but he rarely holds public engagements.

[@The00air]

See the video on my channel, he came to speak at my University about the war on drugs, which ended up being a very interest talk outside - I brought my copy to be signed

[@adambritain5774]

Ahhh, the Liverpool harangue! I saw that tickets were available to that, on Facebook. But I am not on FB and I don't think PH promotes his public speaking/engagements overly strongly.

[@matinalancaster6254]

Peter's consistent veraciousness is an incredibly attractive attribute indeed.

[@eleveneleven572]

I went to a Catholic Boys Grammar in Birmingham. Most of the kids, I guess at over 90%, were working class. Now, following my peers careers, most have achieved career success way beyond the situation of their parents. I am sure that had we gone to comprehensives we would never have done so well as we were dragged down by low expectations, poor teachers and disinterested peers.

[@mikegeeguitarman8991]

a lovely wonderful unappreciated man. Total respect to Peter!

[@Londonfogey]

I really like the way Mr Hitchens always has an air of 'it doesn't matter because nobody takes a blind bit of notice, but here's what I think' about his arguments. It's refreshingly self-deprecating in an era of shouting, self righteous ideologues.

[@righteousindignation8879]

I'm hesitant to watch more of your content. Your guest was outstanding.

[@Survivethejive]

Good point about Thai monarchy at the end

[@stephen227]

At first I thought the interviewer quite dreadful....like Mr Hitchen's had desperately dragged someone in off the street and made him ask him questions. But then I remembered Cathy Newman's technique (vis a vis Peterson) and could see this young fellow in his true light...as a real and intelligent INTERVIEWER.... ..because here we learn all about what Hitchen's thinks....rather than what the Newman's of this world do.

[@jonesalex565]

True

[@Myndir]

He's a young lad trying hard to learn and think. Hitchens is giving him a great opportunity to do so and he's taking it.

[@Myndir]

Oh, and you can tell that PH is LOVING the chance to educate said young lad and that his book had actually been READ by an interviewer!

[@mrRambleGamble]

Yeah, I give him credit for trying.

[@jackjones3657]

Well said, the young man is open minded and receptive to the interviewees ideas testing them against the standard he judges by. This seems like common courtesy and the journalism basics so few seem to have in the modern public forum.

[@njugunotsowildmonkey8338]

I'm old and will die soon. So I thank God that I probably won't have to see the hell that is surely coming.

[@DWHalse]

Njugu, I trust you will live long enough to see that there just might be a pinpoint of light at the end of that tunnel. Have no idea your thoughts on your eternity and if you have no thoughts I challenge you to check out the man named Jesus who was incarnated, died on the cross, rose from the dead on the third day, ascended into a heaven and now is the Lord of the universe He created. Don’t look at the Church but Him as the first of a new creation you can enter into. It is a true and fascinating story like no other. I trust I have not offended you in any way.

[@SagaciousFrank]

Depending on how you've lived your life, you may yet see it after you die. ;-)

[@DWHalse]

@@SagaciousFrank well said..Need a bit of Jesus in this equation however

[@PauloConstantino167]

I am sorry to say that there is a high probability we are born again over and over. So we WILL have to deal it with. Better do it now.

[@SagaciousFrank]

@@PauloConstantino167, I seriously hope not. One lifetime is more than enough for me, thank you very much.

[@crossley941]

This interview deserves more than one viewing.

[@MrKeefrichards]

could listen to peter all day a very wise man.

[@UltraAar]

Great interview!!! Thank you very much for interviewing such a distinguished man! We can learn so much from him! :)

[@99IronDuke]

I don't always agree with Peter Hitchens but 'The Abolition of Britain' is a book that is well worth reading, especially if you are British.

[@Cerbera82]

99IronDuke a superb book. The Abolition Of Liberty is equally good. Explaining how the end of the "bobby on the beat" was a deliberate government policy, and any politician who says they will reinstate police foot patrols is a liar

[@qboxer]

Watching this as I shave in the morning. I look over, as Peter mentions Desiderata. My wife's treasured copy, passed on by her late aunt, stares at me in the face. Well then.

[@titaniumslug]

Its the first time I have heard of it and I was expecting it to be cheesy but actually it's not bad. A lot of loud extreme leftists these days would do well to put it on their wall.

[@jamescarr4662]

Fuck you

[@glennwilliams6522]

@James Carr Well, that’s one view.....

[@thefuturist3213]

Always a pleasure to listen to Peter Hitches.

[@jackjones3657]

What a breath of fresh air Peter Hitchens is here. No bull just straightforward intellectual honesty which is sadly a minority of modern academia.

[@krileayn]

Great interview, interviewer lets Peter really flesh out his answers.

[@TheGava4]

krileayn unlike BBC/SKY....

[@krileayn]

@EvolBob Actually I see your point. I think usually Peter faces very hostile interviewers and this was a big change, hence why so many of us Peter Hitchens fans liked the interviewer because he actually gave Peter a chance to speak and didn't misrepresent his comments as commonly happens on the Leftist media. But you are correct the standard interview has to be more robust, then again when you look at the Jordan Peterson, Cathy Newman interview, perhaps that's gone too far as well.

[@JB000001]

"Magna Est Veritas" by Coventry Patmore: Here, in this little Bay, Full of tumultuous life and great repose, Where, twice a day, The purposeless, glad ocean comes and goes, Under high cliffs, and far from the huge town, I sit me down. For want of me the world's course will not fail: When all its work is done, the lie shall rot; The truth is great, and shall prevail, When none cares whether it prevail or not.

[@Cerbera82]

JB000001 nice

[@SuperBartles]

"People ceased to believe certain things and into that vacuum things rushed" Perfect. Many people have eerily replaced the role Christianity used to play in our lives with a different, and flawed belief system, no more rational, and nowhere near as rich and comforting

[@JB000001]

That replacement belief system is godless and perverted though. There are men that want to take God's place.

[@SuperBartles]

JB000001 have edited my post with what I really meant to get at before - I kind of agree

[@JB000001]

I've quoted Carl Jung elsewhere on this page I think, here's another quote from him I think may be appropriate: "...a natural function which has existed from the beginning, like the religious function, cannot be disposed of with rationalistic and so-called enlightened criticism... Religion, in the sense of conscientious regard for the irrational factors of the psyche and individual fate, reappears - evilly distorted - in the deification of the State and the dictator: _Naturam expellas furca tamen usque recurret_ (you can throw out Nature with a pitchfork, but she'll always turn up again)."

[@JB000001]

Carl Jung was a keen student of human nature; you'd have to be a complete moron to ignore it.

[@MWcrazyhorse]

A pathological one. Christianity wether you believe in it or not makes poeple into better human beings, because it describes human nature accurately and has the right ideals to follow.

[@ExtremeBogom]

Great conversation.

[@AnaxofRhodes]

Fantastic interviewer. Almost all others try to put words in Peter's mouth. Not you. You brought out the deep part of Peter's worldview here. Thank you, well done.

[@StuartMacadam]

Great interview Dan. Peter Hitchens is in my mind, one of the few independent, rational journalists left in the world.

[@jamescr007]

Good interview, one of my favourite interviews of the Hitchmeistergeneral.

[@crossley941]

Thanks for the great interview.

[@johndaniel3040]

I am impressed good sir. Thank you for the content. "What compelled you to write "the Abolition of Britain"? "I wasn't compelled to write it" Lol Classic PH

[@yington]

How do you know he wasn’t compelled, but that he wasn’t allowed to say so? If you consider the way that one can capture the art of a solipsistic linguistic movement, despite the angle one may look upon it from the left - well, you really are moving into the quartet of anarchy. Step back, & consider that your own world view may in fact coincide with the evolution of actual scientific investigations, whose only purpose was to see which way you countered the way it all falls together. Thanks

[@johndaniel3040]

I have not read the post-moderist bible, but thank you for the revelation.

[@mikekrupa9287]

This was a great interview. Classic Hitchens at his best.

[@mrsbofaz]

I am 71. Appreciate your interviews. Grew up as a teenager right during the liberal Presbyterian Church era. I most definitely believe in election. No other explanation for my conversion.

[@danpugh8089]

You're very welcome, Ann. So glad you've appreciated them - thanks for letting me know.

[@youn3620]

Great Interview Dan!

[@lewismcnicholas2631]

Fantastic comments particularly on education, the NHS and diet

[@SteveP0412]

Peter Hitchins is absolutely spot on about the Health Service and the state of health of the population. Not only a problem in the UK, though. Does the system have to break down completely before change comes?

[@devonseamoor]

How about individual British citizens beginning to act on what they know about their horrible diet, their immense sugar, and fat intake. Plus a change of attitude and get rid of the virus "complacency". That's where the root of change begins. I've seldom seen a population so dumbed down and allowing it to happen also.

[@DrPog-rq7cn]

I'd like to see Hitchens on Rubin. Maybe in debate with Mogg. Would be very interesting.

[@DrPog-rq7cn]

If that bothers you, start your own channel.

[@funnycatvideos2084]

Rubin is unbearably self congratulatory and offers zero insight into current affairs.

[@DrPog-rq7cn]

He's alright. More importantly, he has on some decent guests sometimes.

[@oldmoviemusic]

Rubin is a facilitator, not a contributor. And there's nothing wrong wrong with that when you're an interviewer with excellent guests.

[@seanmoran6510]

Mogg would be highly irritating and would loose! Plus Eton was created for the poor of the time not the toffs!

[@marty873]

Great interview. Good job Dan.

[@Yourmomma568]

i love how visibly uncomfortable he is when receiving compliments.

[@rodneyplewright7685]

The interviewer does a great job in remaining quiet in the background and letting the interviewer do most of the talking. Eric Metaxes should learn this skill.

[@rapturebound197]

Oh come on Rodney they're two different people. Eric did a superb job with Peter.

[@christinejones9620]

Glad I wasn’t the only one frustrated with Eric’s terrible interviewing style, particularly in his interview with Peter. He can’t help himself it seems, vacuously interrupting with throw away jokes to the crowd and trivializing lines of inquiry. SITC is clearly The Eric Show.

[@badmattam]

Always enjoy listening to Mr Hitchens.

[@mauser8515]

It leaves us to wonder what the United States and Britain would have been like in current times if the World Wars had not taken so many of our very best. Slainte from Alabama.

[@d.jparer5184]

Theres no way to begin to fathom that, the global population would be way larger and I imagine with a better quality of people throughout. Probably something like star trek.

[@teknical100]

How are we supposed to know what the agenda of the interviewer is if he doesn't keep interrupting Peter Hitchens ! ! ! Oh, hang on it is not the BBC, ITV, Chanel 4, CNN, RT. . . . . . . . .

[@HM-mw7cg]

Jesus, you idiots are all over the net. This interviewer doesn't have a strict time limit and he's not holding this man to account. It's a soft interview to discuss his book. Get a grip.

[@seantoner7392]

@John Chapman he didn't, he's just referring to the phenomenm of people all over the Internet who believe that the BBC and other networks are 'biased' just because they may interrupt a speaker sometimes because there's a time limit and the guest is taking up too much time, or if they challange the guest, which is their job to do, the right wingers scream "bias, left wing agenda," THAT WAS AN INTERROGATION NOT AN INTERVIEW" and all that bollox.

[@christianvanneuves9958]

Do I subscribe to everything that was said in this interview? No. But I enjoyed to listen to every word of it! Also excellent the style of the interviewer who did not beg for his own opinions to be dished up, or incessantly bagging the interviewees opinions. Than you for making it available.

[@mikereger1186]

Pretty damned sharp and has a huge backlog of precedent to back up his ideas. Depressing but solid listening.

[@ishmaelforester9825]

The idea of Christianity is you give everything away, and in doing so you gain everything, i.e through sharing. And it's perfectly true. If we did, we would. 'First seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.'

[@generationx2970]

No that is not true...

[@ishmaelforester9825]

Oh it's true. If everybody genuinely dedicated everything they have to God and the neighbour, rather than ourselves and our personal gain, the whole planet would be rich, peaceful and happy. There would be no shame, no envy, no wrath, no pride. This is indisputable. Christ taught us the sublimest ethical philosophy, and it's not even impossible, I mean, like a square circle is impossible. It involves no essential absurdity; it is pure logic. It is just extremely difficult.

[@megmartel6005]

Hmm, "give everything away" well that would suit any invaders wouldn't it?

[@ishmaelforester9825]

@@megmartel6005 And when Jesus saw great multitudes about Him, He gave a command to depart to the other side. Then a certain scribe came and said to Him, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.” And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.” Then another of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

[@devonseamoor]

If there's one thing Christ wished us to embody and bring to expression and fruition, in our lives here, it's sovereignty in spirit, mind, and body. Any authority that is externally dictating a rule of giving away everything, is equal to what the World Economic Forum intends to establish now. Claus Schwab's motto is "You will own nothing, but you will be happy" Freedom is the absence of shackles.

[@Deejaynext]

great interview. good on you. got some stuff out of peter i'd never really heard him talk about before. really enjoyed it. good job :)

[@digitalconcepts1439]

England has gone quietly into the night without so much as a whimper. England proved this saying: "The way for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

[@megmartel6005]

Oh piss off Paddy

[@Lakers-u2v]

@Paddy234 dont you have potatoes to pick?

[@Lakers-u2v]

@Paddy234 it's an old joke but still good just like Welsh and the sheep fetish 👍

[@megmartel6005]

Paddy - hmm, OK, just don't shit on England. It's not appreciated. There's enough far-Left numpties & foreigners doing that already🇬🇧

[@megmartel6005]

Paddy - Who?? - I suggest enemies of the West would be a start. Right up the top of the list to castigate would be ANTIFA nutters and traitors followed by Globalists of all stripes (EU, UN, multinationals). There are many of us who won't go quietly into the night. We will oppose this orchestrated take-over by Globalists to the end. Would Michael Collins be impressed with today's multiculti Ireland? The Irish spent hundreds of years fighting for freedom then hand it over to high breeding 3rd world welfare recipients🇬🇧🇮🇪

[@janetbaggibiotelli2556]

Mr.Hitchens seems to be a man of details ...He is on the same caliber as Lord Sumption and John Pilger...a delight to hear his interpretation of history and politics

[@Jubilo1]

Good job for a first effort; he content is everything.

[@TheBigBirdx]

I just discovered Peter Hitchens today and well... I need to say from what I've seen that I really like him. And it's another chance for me to notice that the same techniques are used everywhere against those who just don't want to open their mouth and eat what the system and the dominant media want to make them eat. I am from Belgium and I am not really keeping up with the news in Britain but well, this is mindblowing really... He just saw a few interviews of that guy by dominant media and it really jumped out at me it's impressive... First, don't let the host speak. Remember, we invited him to humiliate him, we don't care about his real opinions whatsoever. This guy is putting into question today's society and today's values, so he doesn't think like us, so he's BAD. Don't let him expose his views, they're bad anyway, people don't need to listen to him. Interupt him every two second, don't let him speak. Make him say things he's never said, use shortcuts, accuse him of any possible things, and of course, don't let him defend himself. These techniques are horrible and dishonest as f*** but hey, he deserves it, he just should think like anyone else. Really, it is sad to say it when you're 21 but well, it's hard to describe how much I hate this society. No debates anymore. No different views. Feminists, anti-racists, LGTB activists, pro-Europeans, they're good by NATURE. They don't need to be good people, they don't need to be competent, they don't need to work on their theories and develop them in books, because we know they're good. We have freedom of speech, that's for sure, but well, only if you open your mouth to agree with the dominant ideology. If you don't want to put anything into questions, you're nice, you're good, we'll keep you. But man, try to discuss any of the things that we call progress and well, we're gonna do our best to make sure you'll stay quiet. Be different, think differently, ask yourself questions, and you'll be racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, anything... Look at Peter Hitchens. Look at Peterson. Look at Zemmour in France. Look at how eastern Europeans are looked down upon by the right-minded, educated and civilized Westerners. Debates are dead, they're not allowed anymore. Try to talk about any sensitive issues and your opponents are going to throw at your face the (non-)arguments of racism, sexism and so one, and then the debate is dead. Ideologies are extremely dangerous. Ideologists don't adapt with reality, they don't ut themselves into question, of course not, they know they right. Instead, they take reality and shape it like they want it to be. Please people, resist. Please people, be intelligent, be wise, don't judge anyone a priori, talk, debate, speak, try to wonder why the person in front of you is thinking what they think. And thank you Peter, thank you Peterson, thank to all of them who are fighting and trying to defend their ideas in a society where they'll be judged wrong even before they open their mouth. I'll be fine, I am strong, society's fucked up but the world is amazing. I am extremely happy, because I know I can go my own way. But gosh, it doesn't make me feel like having children, if we keep going this way, my children could clearly sue me for having thrown them into that mess...

[@TheBigBirdx]

Forgot to say that this interview is not like the ones I'm describing, and thank you for that, really. I just wanted to post a comment somewhere, because we can't post comments on "Good morning Britain" videos. I am wondering why...

[@mikaelodqvist7980]

This was "indeed" a delight to watch.

[@danpugh8089]

Mikael Odqvist It was a delight to do. I learnt much from the experience - among other things that I say "indeed" an excessive amount. I wondered when someone would mention that.

[@cavaliernews6185]

Just finished reading this book it was both brilliant and heartbreaking at the same time. I still don't want to accept that all hope for Britain is completely lost but it's becoming very difficult to see how our demise can be reversed.

[@devonseamoor]

@Cavalier News. Despite my not so happy comment left here yesterday, I am actually optimistic about Britain's future. To have left the dictatorship of the EU is a blessing in disguise, I believe. Only thing is, the class system keeps everything in a freezer that needs defrost before the population can live in freedom again. The obedience to authority, in a slavish manner, fearful of making a new move, thinking a new thought, in lower class citizens is such a strange experience for me, born in The Netherlands. My 5 years in Britain were great, but also complex.

[@Rammbock]

Good interview. I don't agree with everything Hitchens says and think he is occasionally too simplistic in his analysis, but this interview was refreshing, because the interviewer was not too professional, i.e. he didn't push Hitchens over like hardened journalists and didn't try to get sensationalist answers, but instead let him speak and the conversation develop in an interesting manner. When your guest suggest to you what to ask, it's a sign that he wants to open up and feels comfortable enough to do so. I really enjoyed that.

[@theconversation9103]

Great interview. I am encouraged to investigate the benefits of our head of state, and why what she represents puts law before power.

[@pgc-68]

Hitchens talks a lot of sense. Must buy the book.

[@jimmorris8927]

Tobermory by Saki, thanks Dan, hopefully it's an audiobook!

[@DeadLizardSociety]

Excellent interview, really like your style

[@AnaxofRhodes]

The more responsibility parents relinquish, the stronger and greater the argument for the state to intervene. The more responsibility parents accept, the less of a burden that household is on the state and the resources it can levy from the people.

[@Spike294]

In over 2 years of watching him, I've never seen him as jovial as he gets toward the end, talking about the Israelites.

[@SuperToughFish]

Great interview! Too bad you couldn't get to those other topics.

[@greenwoodorganics4681]

Very good interviewer. Thanks for this.

[@lucilovecraft1621]

Love Peter Hitchens his honesty is so refreshing in today's world. Though I don't agree with him on all his points, I believe the rejection of religious ideas and christian thinking is a positive thing, its just we haven't worked out yet what should replace it.

[@FloydMaxwell]

45:00 - very true about caring for the old. I've done this, as a male care provider, for the past 11 years. Incredibly rewarding, incredibly underpaid.

[@ZoroJL-e1l]

I go on a Peter hitchens video and find myself feeling very enriched, then I have to go back to the real world and feel depressed at the lack of sophistication and cultural awareness about

[@chriswalls2262]

Ha ha ha. Indeed. Great interview. Saying it’s your first. Fair play to Peter for giving a great interview . Good stuff

[@dazpearce2096]

Remember buying the book in 1999. Good interview.

[@petermitchell6348]

Talk about the dumbing down of the education system. We have graduates leaving university who can barley read and write.

[@ethmac1]

Peter Mitchell that's simply not true

[@DieFlabbergast]

+Peter Mitchell *barely ("barley" is a cereal) A classic case in point, eh?

[@sleightyssportsbar3322]

Freaky Flow What is true is we have undergraduates arriving at university in need of remedial English classes. What does that say about the schools?

[@ethmac1]

How can you call me an idiot based on one single comment? That, to me, sounds inherently idiotic

[@abubakardouglas8268]

Sleighty's Sports Bar another made up fact ?

[@AlexDeLarge77]

Say what you want about Peter, he's a fucking heavyweight journalist & his breath of knowledge is second to none. The last ten minutes are fascinating as they are chilling.

[@adambritain5774]

Some great stories from PH, here. An after dinner speaking engagement with him would be peerless. Unsure whether it's the interviewer, or the mood PH found himself in that day, but he allows the more private side of PH out, particularly in the latter half. He's usually much more straight and professional, his public persona rarely gives way to his private one.

[@nuuky]

Even though Iam an Athiest I find very much to like and agree with of what Peter has to say.

[@MarlboroughBlenheim1]

“What compelled you to write it?” “Nothing compelled me to write it …. Except I was told to write it if I wanted to be part of the national debate which I wanted to be part of”

[@tooth.harvester]

Excellent interview.

[@sleightyssportsbar3322]

What PH did not mention but surely knows is the American education model was based on the Prussian model. I think it would be a good thing if more Brits knew this. But then, sadly, that would require a great many people who were 'educated' in comprehensives by leftwing ideologues to first learn who the Prussians were. You see the problem.

[@christinejones9620]

Sleighty's Sports Bar - yes.....true intent and purpose are not appreciated without this fundamental awareness and progressive education is excused as merely naive, misguided or reactionary, rather than applied strategy, implemented through the hands of the radicalized, stoked with resentment at their own educational failures and keen to warm themselves in the glow of being the so called liberators of hearts and minds of future lemmings.

[@devonseamoor]

@Sleighy's Sports Bar The lack of knowledge and interest in learning something unknown and new, was shocking to me when I lived in Britain for almost 5 years. Until I returned to my Dutch home March 2020. As if brain fog dominates in many.

[@IconOfSin24148]

Keep that chin up lads ;_;

[@TN-xx4ih]

IconOfSin24148 guard that sacred flame Prince George

[@MrWeeRhys]

I really like you as an interviewer.

[@kbeetles]

MrWeeRhys - unfortunately they are not in the same league, simply because of the age gap ( Hitchens, as an experienced person is confident, erudite and does not need to prove himself.....but because of that people feel either intimidated or infuriated and try to tease him or wrestle with him. And some of us feel a bit of awe at his take of the world and the courage not to give in for the sake of fitting in. The young man belonged to the latter, which gave PH the opportunity to elaborate - which was nice!)

[@scootjockey]

Well peter the same happened to me ,came home after leaving the Army was asked if i could speak hindu,Indian in a job interview selling carpets in the UK.

[@abubakardouglas8268]

Scoot Jockey very interesting, Hindu is a very rarely used language in UK, next time you tell this story change it to Urdu as people will believe any bad shit about Pakistani Community.

[@scootjockey]

Ok mate i am no expert i just know that it was a foreign language in MY country.

[@mikenewbold1699]

lol i can feel the intolerance through the keyboard. It's not YOUR country it's everyones you mouth breather. Why did you leave the army to go to a carpet shop anyway? couldn't hack it?

[@williampeterson5114]

@Mike Newbold What makes a country anyone's, but the native populous? Is your home free for everyone to access too?

[@walidb123]

That didn't happen did it...

[@MrRedcarpet02]

A fascinating book to read

[@perryedwards4746]

a very important person, i only hope he can find his way through to the bone..

[@vernwilder101]

18:38 "It was done as so many bad things are done; for idealistic and benevolent reasons"

[@JoeSmith-fw8ix]

37:59 That is one hilarious moment. "I'm sure that's a very profound thing to say." That actually made me laugh out loud.

[@paulleannefischer1148]

Me too. I laughed out loud several times. So awesome.

[@uktruecrime]

I also like the way he says that he wrote the book as his way of doing something about 'it'. the irony being that the 'abolition of Britain' means that 'stern' letters to the Times no longer effect anything. To start off with, many people can't even read English, and a huge percentage would have any interest in reading a book that essentially doesn't like them. He might as well as sub-titled it, 'Preachint To The Choir', all of whom are dead.

[@indricotherium4802]

Hitchens is an Englishman at heart worried that the English dynamic has been defiled for him. Meanwhile, I see the English dynamic at play and realise I'm not an Englishman at heart. Like Tom Paine said, don't let the name of the land you happened to be born in weigh you down.

[@indricotherium4802]

Gary M: We? Got me guessing. We all? O, you must mean your multiple personalities.

[@edwatom]

Is it really the land you're born in that makes you an Englishman? I don't think I'd be considered a Chinaman if I were born to English parents in China.

[@Lytton333]

Says the man writing it in English...What a larf.. Next you'll be telling people that you're a 'citizen of the world'.

[@SuperHoraceWimp]

Indeed, indeed!

[@r.b.4611]

A real man of our culture.

[@marcokite]

Peter is the best and I agree with 99% of everything he says, the only time he gets hazy and wishy washy is on religion, if only he'd cross the Tiber.

[@jordanwilliamson905]

“Indeed.”

[@atomopawn]

Hitchens recommends a book, but I can't figure out how to spell it. It sounds vaguely like "Tobey Moray". Can someone point me in the right direction to find it?

[@atomopawn]

Ah, nevermind. Found it by Googling "Saki": doyleandmacdonald.com/l_tober.htm

[@catherinefitzpatrick8168]

Beautiful point about families looking after the older generation (45:00)

[@mrRambleGamble]

37:52 is a perfect snapshot of the interview.

[@danpugh8089]

Agreed. I used it as the thumbnail for the interview on my Vimeo page.

[@dessenruhminallenlanden7581]

That's either sparkling water, or it's been sat on the table for a while, either way the fact that one glass is bigger than the other makes me feel uneasy and somewhat shaky. Thanks.

[@MrRubberchicken21]

I’d like to see how Peter Hitchens and Jordan Peterson would get along.

[@JB000001]

I really like Jordan Peterson. He has some great content on KZbin too...

[@PrivilegedWhiteRabbit]

Peter Hitchens recently wrote a review of Peterson's new book in the Spectator. Peter wouldn't really have time for him and didn't like Peterson's writing style.

[@Longshanks1690]

James Wynne He dismissed him on Twitter after his "cult" of followers were constantly barraging him to look into his work.

[@JB000001]

"Cult" is kind of a funny thing to say about Peterson. From what I've seen of his work a lot of importance is placed on the individual and self-awareness, which is precisely the opposite of losing oneself within a collective cult.

[@Longshanks1690]

JB000001 Funny how that always seems to happen to these "individualists." They gather large, cultish followings who despise any criticism of their dear leader. That was Peter's point. So many had been clamouring for him to praise Peterson too that he distrusted them, and eventually dismissed them. It's like that scene of Brian and his followers in MP's "Life of Brian." "You are all individuals. You are all different!" "So tell us what to do, master!"

[@adambritain5774]

PH being genuinely modest, as ever. It'll be a sad day when we no longer benefit from his national voice. He's a tour de force; head and shoulders above the vast majority of people in our country. Testament to his standing that he's still having 1 hour interviews about a book he wrote two decades ago!

[@megmartel6005]

Except he was one of the "revolutionaries" cheering on the socialist push for Blair. Well, he's got what he asked for. He is partly responsible for the mess the UK is in. Pity he didn't wake up sooner. We'd all be better off.

[@seanmoran6510]

@@megmartel6005 Please explain When was he a cheer leader for Blairism? I do not follow your train of thought. Ps he has repeatedly said he has a lot to be guilty about re being a revolutionary Trotskyist 🤷‍♂️

[@mmick66]

What is the book recommended @ 14:35? I cannot "wrestle" it out of Hitchen's accent...

[@danpugh8089]

Tobermory by Saki: doyleandmacdonald.com/l_tober.htm

[@majornichols]

Good interview Dan with a intelligent thinker, ignore the haters, that's all they've got. One trick ponies.

[@tonydolton4544]

It points out how Britain was lost and none of us know what we are or about anymore, I worry what will happen to my generation when we get older depending on this generation today for care and dependence.

[@TheronasaurusRx]

Anyone else having problems with the audio quality at around the 30 min mark?

[@flyingkeyframes]

You've got to love the clash of Christianities here. "He who diggeth deepest, deepest digs"!