Peter Hitchens on the new elites & Biden goes to Ireland - The Week in 60 Minutes | SpectatorTV

Kate Andrews, The Spectator's economics editor, is joined by journalist Peter Hitchens, Bloomberg columnist Adrian Wooldridge, Spectator contributor Paul Wood, the Economist's Gregg Carlstrom, Spectator political editor Katy Balls, political correspondent James Heale, and contributor Mark Mason.
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00:00 - Welcome from Kate Andrews
01:22 - The new elites, with Adrian Wooldridge and Peter Hitchens
18:41 - Biden's Irish homecoming, with Katy Balls and James Heale
35:50 - The new Middle East, with Paul Wood and Gregg Carlstrom
51:59 - How to make your own coffin, with Mark Mason
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[@Ireland1]

Mr Hitchens is the voice the world really needs to wake up and listen to. The cult has essentially deplatformed him from debating on the BBC and most of the people who listen to him already do because his wisdom highlight issues we knew we were worried about but couldn't articulate our concerns. He gives us our words.

[@anothersucker-Youcantfixstupid]

He's a grumpy old fossil and out of touch.

[@vivo-audio]

Novara Media gave him a full and respectful interview only a few weeks back. He's often platformed by the left wing media. He's also a Christian, which some may argue is a cult.

[@ceciliawedgwood4321]

And Peter Hitchens mumbles

[@harrying882]

He probably has given up, but he’s still a mighty individual.

[@DavidA-ps1qr]

Great comment. 100% correct.

[@sallyroddy6566]

thoroughly enjoyed this programme! what a lovely balance you have managed to achieve; young, intelligent presenter who allows the guests to speak and a bit of lighthearted , philosophical conversation at the end. Congrats from Buenos Aires. love and light to all

[@sisiphas]

That attack ad about locking up child abusers could seriously play back on Labour. Their complicity in the grooming gang avoidance, and their silliness on gender ideology could haunt them.

[@aaronwilkinson8963]

I can see labour party winning 🤮

[@caracalla6472]

If they don't understand that attack ads only work when they articulate what people already think, suspect or at least find plausible, then there's no hope for them. Fundamentally clueless. You are correct that they have invited a full frontal counter-attack on their woke sympathies, and come 2024 that's what they'll get.

[@albertgrant1017]

It should !

[@UKtoUSABrit]

First-time listener to Mr Woolridge - very impressed. His descriptions of meritocracy, wokism were excellent. As usual, Hitchens was top notch

[@tedkijeski339]

As a semi-retired speech teacher, I can't tell you how gratifying it is to see an apparently millennial-aged woman actually pronouncing her T's. No "Millennial Flap"--Brava!

[@w2chap]

Another excellent edition. It’s so refreshing to listen to intelligent and well informed contributors speaking at length without interruption. Very well presented by Kate Andrews as usual.

[@geoffreynhill2833]

Agreed. Even if you don't agree with them! 😉(Green Fire, UK) 🌈🦉

[@OldEnglandCathedral]

Peter!!!!!!!!! Hitchens. He too cool bruh. Love his work and his effortless sense of humour. I''ll be writer one day after reading all these old books and hope to then add something sensible to the conversation just as Peter Hitchens does.

[@marcbiff2192]

How can anyone with an ounce of common sense take Biden seriously yet here we are The Spectator and it's motley crew doing exactly that.

[@peadarocoileain902]

It could also be said that, it is also hard to take, Blair, Cameron, Johnson and Truss seriously and they were all decades younger than Biden, when they were thrown out of power.

[@genghisthegreat2034]

No specific issue on which you find his position unworthy. While you're entitled to an opinion, you need to do more to have it taken seriously.

[@marcbiff2192]

@@genghisthegreat2034 The guy and his hideous family are as corrupt as they come and we won't mention his obvious medical problems.

[@rons.9678]

Wonderful to hear Peter talk on something that I haven’t heard him speak on.

[@22grena]

If you do not address the tiny ethnic minority who originated these ideas to weaponise minorities against the European majority and the reason why they did this then these discussions are pointless. As for the 'special relationship' its with Ireland and Israel not Britain.

[@albertgrant1017]

Well Stated !

[@LeMerch]

I started reading a lot about Irelands soft power recently and its quite interesting. I didn't realise how much Ireland have influenced the US and Europe but they are now becoming the gateway between US and EU which is going to really change the relationships of both regions over the next few decades. Ireland is a good choice though, as they are also a strong ally with the UK and tend to work very closely together diploatically (ignoring the political hyperbole at the surface level).

[@basilbaby7678]

@@LeMerch, the Irish have sold their birthright to the EU for material gain, and they’re already starting to suffer the affects.

[@roygardiner2229]

Peter's mention of the demise of Christian values, and their displacement by woke dogma, really struck a chord with me. It rings true. I liked Adrian Wooldridge's discussion of the failure to meaningfully to address the ambition to "level-up" large numbers of Britons. As for Biden...I am glad to see the back of him. Enough said.

[@redskyatnight123]

Definitely I thoroughly agree with you there, they go about this madness in a zeal that is similar to religious cults , these people are on the extreme, I'm working class , soi don't know if that has anything to do with it but I see the ridiculousness of it so clearly, these people look tapped in the head, what really disappointing the most is that these people are supposed to be the intelligent future of this country yet to us normal folk who have to worry about life can see how stupid ,brainwashed and easily lead these people are , its madness, I'm so worried about our nations future, stop the self hate and self flagulation about the past and let's start being positive, inject some confidence in the young , all this white guilt is them virtue signaling to make themselves feel better about how good they have it in life .

[@Louis-yy6ge]

100% agree

[@LeonApricus]

Christianity is the original woke religion. It destroyed Rome, just like antifa, pulling down statutes dressed in black

[@laurengalan2760]

Please can you do an article about what Georgia Meloni is getting right in Italy? I’ve heard next to nothing on the MSM about the good she is doing.

[@seanoconghaile9546]

​@@laurengalan2760 here is your artivle: Niente!

[@rcw3009]

We have not yet begun to fight!

[@stevehall9333]

Essentially what we have is what Enoch Powell said we would have, no ?

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

Hitchens hates Powell. He thinks he was a nasty racist.

[@albertgrant1017]

Absolutely !

[@UKtoUSABrit]

Steve Hall: you are 100% right about Enoch. In retrospect, he actually understated the extent to which he predicted immigration would increase in 70s-80s. Powell did not deserve the flak he received. He was a brilliant man

[@sabejreid2072]

Keep it up - we need real news so bad.

[@cfluff6716]

I agree, this woke ideology has taken over but it’s not because the “right” didn’t care or was lazy but because the conversation that society needed to have were labeled politically incorrect or racist. There’s no amount of collective effort Or government that will fix the fundamental problems in peoples lives and struggling communities.

[@saltburner2]

If you needed brain or open heart surgery, would you rather have an experienced surgeon with an excellent academic and clinical record who was in theatre several days each week, or someone with little experience who had barely passed his finals and only operated occasionally?

[@ZephaniahL]

His magical competence-granting melanin, and savvy rejection of Christianity, would naturally make any thinking man ipso facto trust the latter more.

[@saltburner2]

@@ZephaniahL Benjamin? I hate your so-called 'poetry'.

[@rocketpig1914]

Depends whether you value your health or social equity more highly.

[@berniethejet]

I'd rather have the Youtoob expert.

[@basilbaby7678]

The Marxists will have the surgeons tilling the field, or breaking rock.

[@sisiphas]

The NHS staff are not held in the affection they once were.

[@kathleenkelly3537]

Don't worry about no British very lucky mainlý dependent at the coal face on Emigrants who have to work ànd work hard without them Our hospital would be in a desperate state The natives just live on the dole doing nothing complaing about Johnny Foreigner taking 😀 😉 their jobs Politicans naturally facilitated this agenda to line their own pockets Cast a very cold eye on the Politicans who pretend to be with the poor history has shown they are the greatest hypocrites of all

[@derekmcmanus8615]

I lost all respect for the NHS when I saw my first Tic Tok nurses

[@marcokite]

agreed!! arrogant doctors and (in my personal experience) lazy nurses, especially the senior nurses and sisters

[@DEadSpaCE211]

Some of the most vile people I've met were in the NHS. Lots of bullies and management are atrocious. I was at Barts .

[@seanoconghaile9546]

​@@DEadSpaCE211 what happened? They sack you? They should have

[@MKHNitro]

Katie Balls trying to justify Sunak Brexit betrayal The Tories are finished

[@richard1342]

You may be correct, but the alternative in Labour is a potential nightmare

[@margaretbgregory1524]

@@laurenceBDontYaNo not for the British in N Ireland

[@philltaylor8442]

The Tories have DUNE what thay SET OUT TO DO! THAT'S TO make it IMPOSSIBLE for THE BRITISH PEOPLE'S TO EVER AGAIN BE A BRITISH NITION CULTURE OR RELIGIONS EVER AGAIN! ITS OVER FOR THE BRITISH NATIONALS OF THE WHITE PEOPLE IMMIGRANTS POURING INTO BRITAIN ALL YOUNG MEN! THE BRITISH PEOPLE'S ONLY HAVE THEMSELVES TO BLAME! THE MAJORITY OF THE BRITISH OR LAZY? KEEP READING YOUR MIANESTEEM MEIAD AND BELIEVE IN THEM!.

[@bobwoodward2185]

​@@richard1342 a worse nightmare than this? X

[@judithcressey1682]

​@@bobwoodward2185 It will get worse anyway and even more so with labour. They are all WEF, World Economic Forum; Sunak, Starmer , Charles iii and the rest. All stitched up. Starmer prefers Davos over Westminster as he stated to Emily Maitlis in interview.

[@everythingisupsidedown9593]

FINALLY Peter is back talking about Christ. This is the key!

[@Bigwave2003]

Yes, if only we put our children in the hands of priests, what could go wrong?

[@everythingisupsidedown9593]

@@Bigwave2003 Catholics are not Christians. They are NOT Born Again of the Holy Spirit. More Mohameedians come into the light than Catholics. I wish you well!

[@josephclift3662]

@@everythingisupsidedown9593 of course Catholics are Christians - and children in evangelical churches have been abused, too. Seriously, judge not lest ye also be judged

[@SirKenchalot]

So Adrian thinks that all racial inequality is the fault of white people and nothing to do with incompatible cultures, values, household structures or anything like that? Arn't white boys suffering more than any other group in British education today? Also, Britains is around 85% white so maybe you should expect those in desirable positions to be... maybe... around 85% white? Given that the current and previous cabinets were less than 85% white, who says Britain is failing minorities? If you move to a country where you are a very small minority, like less than 10%, you're just not going to see 'you' reflected in media, top jobs, celebrities or other high profile roles in that society; it's just basic common sense but the left sews resentment and gains votes by exploiting such minorities and Adrian plays right into their hands with his 'I'm so bad I haven't done enough' attitude.

[@kathleenkelly3537]

Spot on

[@mw89181]

Adrian is one of the free market liberals Peter described; he hasn’t an interest in challenging the fallacies of the Left because he accepts them as true. He even started his segment with vindicating the idea that there are unjust out comes which need fixing rather than pointing out that this is an artificial situation caused by mass immigration. He buys into the Left’s paradigm and so him and Peter are not even on the same wavelength.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Very good show!

[@NikoHL]

Kate 'Looney Tunes' Andrews.. Lordy😂 . All I can say is Thank God for Peter Hitchens

[@DMills888]

More Hitchens!

[@markjeffery7319]

And less Balls and Andrews....

[@maghrebforever2012]

Could listen to Peter all day. Fact is sometimes I do

[@njigyfd]

Mr. Wooldridge was bracingly concise and accurate. Hitchens also makes some penetrating remarks.

[@athought2256]

Enjoyed the discussion on the rise of the woke ideology. Made me think things are perhaps worse than I feared. One glimmer of hope this week was the Budweiser outcome as it shows that despite its apparent ubiquity, wokeism is far from universally accepted when it comes to things where people can freely show their actual views and show their resistance to the endless propaganda. $5 billlion loss if true, a well deserved outcome.

[@seanoconghaile9546]

It is not ubiquitous. Many throw the word around but have no idea what it means. I don't. I have seen many commentators asked to define it but coherent replies came there not.

[@LS-xs7sg]

Being buried in a boat is a pretty based and Anglo-Saxon to be fair.

[@sallyroddy6566]

you know what is really happening: under the umbrella of compassion is a malevolent force that wants to divide and rule. Wokeness originally was about living consciously but some dark force took it over to make it about something totally the opposite. George Orwell wrote about this in 1984. love and light to all

[@fleontrotsky]

Love the clip of Tony Blair inflicting TBI on himself in a desperate attempt to look like an "everyman ". Lol.

[@maymalone1505]

He and everyone else is every human as well as being indvidual

[@fleontrotsky]

Go and feed your cats.

[@albertgrant1017]

Blair destroyed Britain !

[@martinhughes9769]

I got booked several years ago33 mph I n a 30 , I went on the speed awareness course in south Wales,really interesting,

[@Delred1]

Oh DO tell !

[@johnday6392]

''It was a university idea''-------Well, what a bloody surprise. Most stupid ideas do come from these sodding places!

[@albertgrant1017]

Quite true !

[@nickwalsworth7650]

If the current sputum of political leadership is the culmination of Meritocracy maybe a new system is needed! Politics offers little lustre for the intelligent and so selection cultivates egotists and sociopaths.

[@albertgrant1017]

Well Stated !

[@hazchemel]

thanks groups.

[@RayCasey2010]

Awesome so far. I asked my google assistant to "play the current news". The first "news" item was a narritive piece from Tucker Caralson talking about the latest Pentagon leaks. And i did agree with him (ugh.. i know, but i agreed), then this. Brilliant! I am now following on Twitter and subscribed on youtube. Great topic. Wondeful discussion. Great guest (following them also) and a rock solid moderator.. looking forward to the future...

[@patriciayeiser6405]

Carlson. Not Caralson.

[@courseworkdue]

Tucker Carlson is great he’s gone along nicely

[@SonofAlbion]

About 5 years behind the intellectual and political zeitgeist.

[@gerry4281]

Why did Biden push Richi out of the way at the airfield. Did he forget who he was.😂😂

[@leehallam9365]

I don't think Peter had read Andrew's article, he didn't address it at all. The jab at Brexit popularism was just a Remainer reflex reaction against the idea of the meritocracy being undermined by ordinary people, who should defer to the judgement of the elite. The reality is that the late nineteenth snd early twentieth century was a period of great social mobility, as the old aristocracy lost power. But it stopped working, social mobility is incredibly low today. What actually happened is that those who rose through meritocracy promoted the cause of their children. Our elite today are the children or grandchildren of those who rose their own efforts. They created an educational racket, so working class children get degrees to be nurses or police officers, jobs that working class people used to do without it. So many at the top of society are their by a sort of merit, but its a strictly a merit of working the system and fitting in. Woke systems are a threat but not to meritocracy, the beneficiaries of it already choked most of the life out of it.

[@hosephanerothe1440]

Is Peter actually smiling in the thumbnail , has hell frozen over !

[@jae2686]

Hard to have in depth or lengthy conversations on what flavour ice cream you prefer. Which is the extent of Biden’s cognitive ability.

[@christianrauscher3362]

Yes, it is always tricky with the horses. Maybe load them up next time?

[@polkad3v]

That mr Wooldridge who was complaining about the focus of the 'woke' made some interesting points, then their solutions to the problems was to continue to be 'woke'. I would love to hear their definition of 'woke'.

[@neilrmartin1984]

They wouldn't have a clue

[@ansa336]

Just what I was thinking, what does he mean by woke?

[@smiledefiesgravity]

Why am I laughing.

[@philiplindley7384]

I think we can be assured that Israel is pretty much all-knowing when it comes to Iranian behaviour and will stop any probable threat.

[@sacredgeometry]

Imagine being against the idea that the better you are at something the more reward and recognition you should get. You only have to wonder how absolutely terrible, how completely devoid of merit a person you have to be, to try to push against that.

[@jkuhn6179]

The break down of this baffling manifestation helps with the groups involved, each of the locations along the spectrum and in the phases along with whether each would, could maintain or unwillingly be unseated and/or why & timings. Of true importance and if One reads between lines with correct assumptions/analysis of ALL parties strengths, weaknesses within the individual micro-societies.

[@robertcook2572]

What, on earth, has NI and its teeny, tiny population to do with the USA? Are they concerned about Scotland, for example? Wales? Catalonia? Cyprus? Wallonia? Alsace?

[@eibhlinni3598]

When the British starved the Irish they emigrated to US they have never forgotten Biden family were one of these family’s

[@spm36]

It does to all fake Irish in the USA I'm afraid

[@margaretbgregory1524]

It has nothing to do with America, Biden is a nationalists and supports Sinn Fein/IRA. We are British and want no part of Biden or his cohorts. He sticks his nose into everything including Brexit.

[@anthonydowney6069]

Well the Irish American Democratic voters have always nursed the grudge against "The Brits "and they will ally themselves with any other group to defeat the Republican party in the US. Biden is a perfect example of this.

[@LeMerch]

@@spm36 Irish Americans aren’t ‘fake’. I’m Irish American, I’ve been to Ireland numerous times and I know full well I’m not Irish from Ireland but I’m Irish American. Something you Brits have zero clue about and may see as a threat since it gives Ireland major leverage over you whether you like it or not.

[@richardwynne6596]

Somebody's putting some timber on. Cut the carbs!

[@sallyroddy6566]

it is precisely because we were starting to make great strides and living in peace that they decided we have to shake this up and get them at each other''s throats again!

[@MelissaR784]

Correction. The populist right DOES NOT have a forceful voice in the U.S. The few Conservative news outlets there are,, are under constant threat of being dropped by satellite and cable companies. The US agency for Global Media trains hundreds of journalists, editors, broadcasters and media managers each year under its authority on five continents, with priority often given to affiliate stations. Training topics include basic journalism; TV, radio and web production; economic and political reporting; and work closely with panelists from international organizations and NGOs.😊

[@patriciayeiser6405]

The companies are not threatening to drop FOX and NewsMax. The left wants them to drop FOX and NewsMax.

[@sisiphas]

Integrity? Labour?

[@millertas]

43:35 "...Rhetorically committed to their destruction...." Does this man know what rhetoric means?

[@RH1812]

So it goes…

[@paultaylor7947]

Rock'n'roll funeee

[@gerry4281]

Any word on latest leaks in US about how Ukraine is losing and Zellensky pocketing huge amounts of $.

[@kaymoto4023]

All good except coffin man! 🙄

[@isaacjordan7031]

Daily Mail > The Spectator

[@gerardfreeman8784]

I would suggest if battle is lost then need to adopt a scorched earth policy

[@jamesjoseph7508]

Mark Mason...The Greengrocer....was there a big turnip at the funeral?

[@imck357]

Peter doesn't like talking about brexit and unusually for him he seemed to say he didn't vote on it. Mmmm

[@laurengalan2760]

Please can you do an article about Georgia Meloni?

[@MrAdrianOldfield]

Peter is head and shoulders above the other guy

[@hollyylloh515]

Saints preserve us,if all these Americans love Irland why did they leave?

[@Ketofit62]

Education is going to be on the Blockchain

[@roberthumphreys7977]

On Joe and the coronation, Joe will not be able to pass up an opportunity to sniff Kate Muiddleton's hair as he walks the greeting line.

[@Peter-ov6xh]

When Hitchens mentions Crosland and Jenkins in the same breath, is that intentional? Their early personal links to each other are eyebrow-raising when one considers their later political careers.

[@will121]

Will The Spectator be defending The King in a few weeks? Where is the meritocracy in that?

[@JohnSmith-mx9wk]

I am curious whether Andrew Neill ever watches these shows? Remember when he would host programs where there was discussions? Where people with different positions were challenged to defend their beliefs? Hitchens and Wooldridge don't discuss anything, Hitchens barely comments on Woolridge's story. I suspect he was only invited and accepted because he can briefly mention grammar schools again. All very sad.

[@mw89181]

The irony of this debate is that it illustrates everything Peter is talking about perfectly. Him and Adrian aren’t even talking on the same wavelength; Adrian is not a conservative but a free market liberal of the type that Peter identified and so his discussion of this topic starts with accepting the Left’s fallacy that there are actually unjust outcomes that need fixing. He is not a conservative because, if he were, the starting point of his argument would be to challenge this fallacy at its roots with the point that mass immigration has caused this very situation and that these people apparently suffering unjust outcomes should not even be here in the first place. This sort of thinking is what has caused our current problems; by not contending, and thus accepting, this underlying fallacy, the starting point of the debate is logically at a more superficial and shallow level. Worse, the ideological debate is not even being had because we are distracted with devising solutions to an artificial problem of the Left’s creation. If we started rejected the underlying fallacies, we could actually have a conversation about the ideological values of British culture.

[@weedheals4202]

Was meritocracy ever around? Whilst in a monarchy? Lol

[@paulies5407]

Top retard take right there.

[@marcokite]

having a Monarch has no impact whatsover of and kind on us being a meritoctacy

[@weedheals4202]

@@marcokite lol that’s funny when you say it out loud! Try it, it’ll make you smile.

[@pepy7779]

Is he wearing suspenders?! Thought they went away by the 60s 😅

[@GB-nu6ow]

suspenders 😂, braces old boy.

[@pepy7779]

@@GB-nu6ow it's the American term, old boy

[@GB-nu6ow]

​@@pepy7779 yes I know, it made me laugh as americans never use the language correctly 😂😂😂😂

[@pepy7779]

@@GB-nu6ow if you hadn't noticed language changes when used in different places and across time. Why don't you research the way English people spoke "the language" 500 years ago, old boy. It would be a better use of your time than making inane comments here.

[@GB-nu6ow]

@@pepy7779 I have done that previously but thank you for your direction, perhaps do that yourself 🤠.

[@niknikmoore]

Don't forget to LIKE the video

[@kinorspielmann4649]

Lady Balls: "Maria. Serve tea in the drawing room. Scones. Jam. Sandwiches. The usual. And make sure you look after Lady Fartwell. You know her special needs."

[@neilwarren4573]

The English Premier League is a great example of a meritocracy. If you are not good enough, you will not make the squad, and yet, half the players are black, so to say that a meritocracy is racist is complete bunk. Its the opposite of being biased and prejudiced, but it does means hard work and dedication. Where talent talks, and BS walks.

[@redwine2664]

What a sod this man is? I hope that boat comes sooner.

[@matthewsmith908]

*Labour uses Conservative style attack ad Conservatives: How dare they! That's disgusting! They used our tactics!

[@millwallholdings]

They have never been as low as labours tactics Fake news

[@galinor7]

Labour say men who say they are women, are women.they would let those men into little girl's changing rooms. Double standard there.

[@aeomahony1]

Sound terrible, can't hear the conversation

[@dareekie2074]

Sorry Peter but you don’t have to be a Christian conservative to have a strong platform to fight Woke. Classical liberalism, based as Adrian says, on freedom and individualism, not collectivism is the best antidote to Woke madness.

[@williamscott2703]

What,about,christian,socilist,with,strong,Christian,views

[@MarcusWHunt]

Wokeness is the end point of individualism - “I identify as…”

[@awhite3747]

@@MarcusWHunt Not sure about that. The original principles of being "Woke", the first and second feminist movements and the anti-discrimination laws - all culminating in the c20th - created a sense of progress. Normal, everyday people across generations, who don't live in echo chambers, reflect these changes for the most part. The ideologically driven Left hates this; they have lost their foothold. The answer? Create new definitions, parcel up society accordingly and stand back. No real social evolution, no innovation; just plain old-fashioned lust for power and relevance. A twisted version of the failed Third Way.

[@James_36]

liberalism is useless to wokism, woke has thrived under liberalism completely

[@basilbaby7678]

Social Justice is a Catholic invention. That being said… After watching the general populace respond to Covid, it seems that most people need something outside of themselves to provide a moral framework. Just because some people can operate as individuals, doesn’t mean the majority will. Jesus over Fauci is still best.

[@danmuygallo]

I to enjoy the spectator. Now it's a sunak fan club

[@onlygazza]

Woke is a new religion, it’s very cultish and if anyone argues against it with fact they are blasphemous or right wing, Christians are right wing these days, the left wing in the world has gone insane

[@simonclare100]

If meritocrasy was racist, top flight professional basketball teams would not be mostly populated by very tall black men, they are there on merrit as they should be, so merrit is racist is it ?

[@thanksfernuthin]

Jordan Peterson Outburst! 🤣

[@disappointedenglishman98]

Adrian Wooldridge here peddles multi-racialism. This is our country. English people should always come first.

[@iainjordan8930]

Joel surprised you thought Brighton should be on the list. It's affectionately know as London by the sea for good reason and outside of London it is one of the most expensive places to live in the UK. Brighton is very liberal minded, the gay and lesbian capital of the country and has some of the best nightclubs too. It's a trendy, very fashionable place to live, most people vote for the Green Party and is full of vegan and vegetarian cafés. Every year they have a naked bike race and the largest gay pride festival in Europe. American Republican types would not approve, terribly left wing, diverse and very cosmopolitan. Worth a visit on a sunny day if you want a fun day out and only a hour and a bit from London on the train.

[@Peter-ov6xh]

The discussion at the beginning is totally useless because it doesn't acknowledge what links the theorists behind all this nonsense. And there is a link.

[@oghamstone5964]

LGB...

[@jamesburke2094]

by broadening the volume of invitations to academic failures (which includes plenty of bolshy characters) each year, they increased the opportunity to kill off the role of merit in operations in commerce and the public sector.... when it's through bolshy behaviour, it's completely inappropriate to use the word "elite" as in no way shape or form does merit or acumen come in to it....

[@Zainiology]

There is far too little PH content on the internet

[@billmcgoon9991]

Hebrews 4: 12 - 13

[@jonq-brit3817]

ALL those who have entered the UK illegally, outstayed their visas or committed violent crimes in the past 25 years ought to be repatriated immediately. If they were, there would be no "housing crisis" and the millions of new sub-standard homes would not need to be built. We also need to give incentives, in the form of tax breaks, to married indigenous Brits to have more children to raise our reproduction rate so that it is sustainable.

[@ethmac1]

She is ill. He is well

[@nicholasbethell2921]

If you are going to use the word woke you need to define what it means.

[@neilrmartin1984]

Woke = a right wing creation to distract from their multiple failings, eg on health and education, the economy, law and order. Pretty much everything that matters to most of us

[@petermitchell6348]

How on earth they can talk about China, Iran and Saudi Arabia without talking about BRICS, is beyond all credibility. The effect that this will have on the dominance of the US dollar is profound!

[@weedheals4202]

Amazing isn’t it Peter?!

[@Farhaad-ll3qn]

China and Saudi Arabia are already fully integrated in international economy, while Iran is effectively a colony of China. This deal doesn't change that. So I don't think there will be any impact on US dollar, and I'm not sure how does BRICS come into this.

[@basilbaby7678]

Our betters welcome the collapse of the petro dollar. Stop noticing.

[@mikec5054]

the US military now promotes by race.

[@brianjones2899]

Please sort out your microphones. Peter Hitchens was very difficult to hear.

[@elainesanders5450]

He always is unfortunately. He speaks in a low tone. I like listening to him but not easy to hear.

[@brianholmes3547]

These political ads are the first thing Starmer has produced as leader and is gutter politics, he has done nothing of note, several announcements of ideas have disappeared without trace. He is a nothing leader, no record, no skills, no chance.

[@barrywalsh7926]

Why is it perfectly fine for the Israeli apartheid regime to have nuclear weapons?

[@ThomasWood-mv3nl]

Watched the first discussion about the "New Elites." First, and most importantly, the Spectator deliberately didn't chose someone who would seriously challenge the thesis. The Spectator knows its audience wants ressurance not actualy debate. Secondly none of Adrian Wooddridge's assertions were evidenced. This talk of a new elite was evidenced by footage of people in their twenties holding up cardboard posters saying just stop oil, in a country where the people actually in charge are licensing new North Sea oil and gas fields while introducing new laws making such protests harder to conduct without going to jail. Really poor.

[@secretagent7888]

Sod the Tory partry. Look to Brexit or Reform or any new uprising. Farage has a tremendous "told you so" argument; he is not played out.

[@scottwhittaker4959]

Always there to remind you of Trump, as if you needed sump.

[@marial8415]

Always, this is why I cancelled my magazine subscription - the TDS never ends with these guys. Does that Mason fellow think that pervert biden understands that he is mortal in his increasingly rare lucid moments.

[@kinorspielmann4649]

Why is KA always so sad-looking?