Peter Hitchens - Question Time

[@roytetwart]

Peter Hitchens is an excellent speaker. A really good, no-nonsense speaker.

[@G0ogs]

BBC policy

[@electrasong]

"Anthony Blair killed the Labour Party... Jeremy Corbyn just sits on the coffin and moans." Peter Hitchens is hysterically funny and accurate.

[@HighKingElendil]

Peter Hitchens is the only person worth watching on this panel. Clear and rational thinking, not ruled by emotion or obsessed with virtue signalling.

[@PaulA-fp3vs]

It happens very often. One guy seems like the voice of reason and the rest of the panel just outrage.

[@PaulA-fp3vs]

Its the same with Nigel Farage.

[@PaulA-fp3vs]

The black women just frowns and says nothing.

[@KKTR3]

Count Dooku why do you need to talk about colour

[@ComeLeVent]

he is not good because he thinks clearly and rationally. He is good because what he says is right. That is all the difference between him and his brother. And if everything he said was said less eloquently and more emotionally, he would still deserve respect because he speaks truth.

[@RAMSEY1987]

Peter Hitchens should be on every week

[@ralphdavidson9542]

The great Peter Hitchens. A man I used to despise when I was a misguided left winger, whom I now greatly admire.

[@lotus9865]

But I'm guessing you don't admire the fact that he believes Christianity is the one true religion eh?

[@popmur7089]

It's Ok Ralph I think the majority of us were the same. You are on the correct side. It's much happier and cleaner may I add.

[@ralphdavidson9542]

@@lotus9865 I do, because I admire his commitment to his belief.

[@lotus9865]

@@ralphdavidson9542 fair play bud

[@roughdraught153]

The only person worth listening to on this show.

[@orbazel]

This is obviously edited down to just the questions and Peters responses, but it took me a while to realise this and thought this was the greatest Question Time ever. It would be a much better programme if it was just Peter Hitchens up there every week.

[@galegrazutis964]

I live in Australia and am new to his brilliance . But TRULY a BRILLIANT MIND!!!

[@MrTowton1461]

Great stuff from Peter Hitchens.

[@SuperUnleash]

hitchens ,destroyer of bullshit and puts across a straight talking truth filled argument in an articulate fashion.

[@bellyfluff101]

Peter Hitchens is the pearl before swines.

[@haroldtrump7863]

Peter is totally right on police

[@kanglongshankz3313]

Hitchens is miles ahead of the other panellists, intellectually and orally. It's actually quite funny

[@SagaciousFrank]

It would be if the dull as idiot audience didn't fall for all their lies and propaganda.

[@generaljackripper666]

Question Time may be the sole redeeming feature of BBC television.

[@Danie9989]

8:36 Peter Hitchens: "Hear Hear."

[@ashleybennett4418]

why does the camera always focus on the person next to hitchens making a foul face

[@tonyp8705]

Looks like she's chewing a wasp. ( no not a racist remark )

[@EgoShredder]

Damn, another wasp ringing the Police to complain about being compared to something else! Apparently the Police told it to not worry, go home and BEE quiet and do not stir up a Hornet's nest.

[@SuperBartles]

Because it's broadcast by the BBC. It's as simple as that.

[@Baldric2022]

ashley bennett she is the one who sits next to Corbyn in the house and nods like a dog in a car rear window to everything he says. So annoying.

[@booth2710]

spot on.

[@desnebula5699]

Peter Hitchens for PM tbh.

[@susannamarker2582]

Des, I doubt whether he would want the job.

[@susannamarker2582]

No. It would be a waste of his talents.

[@ThePierre58]

I came here via " The Abolition of Britain" by Peter Hitchens. Great read. His intellect is extraordinary.

[@harrywheatley5801]

Everybody loves to pull the ‘I didn’t think I’d be saying this but I agree with peter line’.

[@nitelite78]

8 million? I bet it was 800,000. There's only 13 million under 18's in the UK.

[@jbagger331]

I bet a lot of bots joined.

[@johnline]

thanks, the only bits worth watching

[@pabsbenedetto773]

Peter Hero!

[@mikeryan6637]

When the others speak, it's just boring. Hitchens is the show.

[@nuuky]

It would not be a surprise to find that most of what Peter has to say goes over the heads of most of the audience.

[@sebastianbooth5659]

Hitchens is just outstanding on this

[@galegrazutis964]

He is ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!

[@Belfreyite]

Hitchens comment about fire brigade policing is so correct. Today's police are ineffective. They are poorly led "Yes men" and their rank structure is a joke.

[@williamcolumbia8740]

i would die for peter hitchens

[@FishOnTwoWheels]

Go from a quarter of a million to 8 million young supporters? Of course he can do that... as long as Diane Abbott is doing the maths lol.

[@frankspence8460]

So pleased Peter Hitchens named Roy Jenkins as the genesis of the break down or Law and Order and the Penal System!

[@DaleRobby]

I don't know if it is the way he says it, or the words he chooses but Peter is always heads and shoulders above any other panelist on any show.

[@pippipster6767]

DaleRobby rear Head and shoulders - not heads and tails! It's not Crufts! 🐩

[@DaleRobby]

Sorry, you are right. Comment will be changed.

[@Rabmcm32]

Thanks for the edit. It's too difficult to sit and sift through question time otherwise.

[@NickAlekseyevich]

I think Peter is the last educated Brit on the program. I'll explain why. You see, all other speakers are appealing to emotions, humor or snarkiness as means of simpleton emotional manipulation. This lets them masquarade as the righteous while being agreed with thus winning without having a knock of sense to their word. Meanwhile, Peter looks at holes in arguments and dissects them in short and eloquent manner, true to the spirit of old educated Britain. Since his opponents have no means on figuring out what he's doing he is simply cast out from the argument as 'that negative guy' while the clowns dance around and cheer for their fragile minds and childlike morality.

[@dibdap2373]

Absolutely spot on.

[@SagaciousFrank]

I don't recall Peter clapping so much for anyone else on a panel, but Sir Menzes was right on point and it demonstrates that on the extreme rare to non-existent occasion a politician speaks some sense, he'll back it.

[@cliffordjamesnirelan]

When Question Time was a real show with a REAL host...

[@joshratcliffe7378]

13:46 great point by peter Hitchens

[@thereisnone9621]

Dawn Butler. What a see you next tuesday

[@bad307207]

peter hitchens should be labor pm

[@KKTR3]

Mark B it's okay saying Labour Party-to quantify-it would need to be in a party with its foundation principles still intact

[@jasonrichards2371]

Peter hitchens is miles ahead intellectually the any of those panelists, he speak common sense and is always accurate

[@breadonitsown8950]

Hitch II is SO right about crime, the police and prisons

[@gavinharris7753]

I thought Dimbleby was meant to be a moderator rather than someone on the panel.

[@NathanZackery]

Yes, he's a great example of how NOT to chair a debate. He injects himself into it far too much.

[@seanmoran6510]

Stupid boy 🤦‍♂️😂

[@nathansellars3757]

Why not make the program longer instead of cutting people off mid point

[@susannamarker2582]

It's all a matter of air time.

[@frankspence8460]

In Gods name why doesn’t Dimbelby shut his mouth and allow panelist’s to answer the damn question!

[@Nuron666]

Corporal punishment and death penalty does work. It works very well in Singapore.

[@GraveArchitect94]

"... and the guitarist from Bombay Bicycle Club"

[@GraveArchitect94]

It shows the death of our political system that a public figure who isn't a journalist, academic or politician is given a public voice? That's democracy, isn't it?

[@sourcescience]

Snob.

[@susannamarker2582]

It's about as useful as putting Russel Brand on the show.

[@ELWATCH01]

Its amazing to hear them scoff at America's rate of incarceration and in the same breath talk about how THEY do not have enough jail space to arrest all of their criminals. Interesting.

[@alistairmacrae4870]

2021 and Peter Hitchens is a No No with the BBC & Q Time.

[@galegrazutis964]

Peter Hitchens IS ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!!

[@codervince7843]

Hutchens too good for that country these days. Rest of panel nobodies.

[@irishking1414]

This guy actually talks about Christians like Christians

[@jbagger331]

6:32 What is this alien concept of deterrant this man is referencing too?

[@roymeynell1076]

Peter Hitchens has usual got in touch one ,police presence needs to be there ,not after it happens,

[@shipwreckjs673]

The look of disgust Dawn Butler was giving him is giving me a chubby.

[@galegrazutis964]

TMI!!!

[@r.shankarashrishsujay2822]

There will a day come when Christian's and conservatives will be persecuted from their own land - Peter hitchens Tommy Robinson case has happened .

[@ritchuk]

6:55. Dimbleby saying you cannot put them in prison before they have committed a crime completely misses the point being made. The fact that criminals are let off for first offences or given no custody time because it is not deemed worthy, but then go on to commit more crimes to the point that they become habitual criminals and then go to prison. That is the problem Peter is talking about. This idiot needs to be replaced.

[@kazamshah4543]

Dimblebum needs to retire from t.v and go to radio 4, where all the other arseholes end up

[@Chris-kz7us]

He can't think past his prompt sheet

[@TheChairsniffer]

The guitarist out of Bombay Bicycle Club looks uncannily like Coppercab

[@templarknight5557]

Nice to see the black woman acting in the typical ignorant manner we have come to expect from the Labour party. Unlucky for her she could not pin the race card on anyone, and the frustration in her eyes because she could not clap loudly in someone's face while putting over her points ( as she has done previously ), was all to obvious. I washed my hands of Labour under Blaire, and for all their faults, at least the Tory's under Theresa May's leadership are doing a decent job. I dread to think what the Labour party would do about Brexit if they were in power.

[@jebideehartley2248]

Racist much

[@shellovski]

She's doing such a good job! She recently displayed a fine example of her strength and stability when she told her party - "back me or I'll stay!" - hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

[@mrwheelerPM]

As soon as the cameras stopped rolling, one of the panelists lit Peter's pipe, another wiped his bottom after his clockwork post-show dump, the third and forth grabbed his ankles and wrists to carry him home and the remaining Dimbleby, who also recognised a king before him, tucked him in to bed.

[@lukejames769]

Andy Wilson Beautifully said

[@jallalabadreturns]

Liz truss the epitome of spineless politicians who would be no use is the real world

[@kevin-scot-7079]

If you were not born in this country and had to leave, which I doubt will happen, then blame the leaders of the country you come from for not giving British people who live abroad in the EU the same rights that you hope to have here. Who is going to except any less a deal for people living abroad than the people that are living here.

[@jamiejack764]

The executives in the back room are shouting to shut Hitchins up

[@francolive5718]

The look of contempt from Dawn Butler in the thumbnail

[@dr34mlucid]

rock star

[@Dreadtothink]

Lol it’s the infamous Pret lady

[@johnnyreggae969]

Peter Hitchen is the only one with a brain

[@Microdejeuan]

What Hitchen's says about Pedophile's seems completely at odds with everything else I've ever heard him say about policing and law enforcement. Seems like a massive contradiction/double standard. Anyone tell me what I'm missing here?

[@scottbirch968]

He doesn’t believe that there’s a real effort to stop it. That’s his subtext.

[@mopground]

He didnt say pedos shouldn't be jailed prosecuted etc. He took thr police chief at his word about resources and agreed with him

[@offwiththefairies77]

Sooo, Douglas Carswell stopped Farage getting a Knighthood did he... hm. Bastard.

[@dibdap2373]

It's not like a knighthood means anything anymore.

[@Dimera09]

ARKS DOUGLISS

[@kiwitrainguy]

14:00 - Labour just lost a seat to the Conservatives for the first time in years, wait until December 2019 !

[@kimef9631]

Can't Wait!!

[@SgtSteel1]

The first female Lord Chancellor in 1000 years... just those words alone don't bode well.

[@pippipster6767]

SgtSteel1 It's nothing to do with gender. I mean if Margaret Thatcher can run the country for 10 years I'm sure she could've done a job like that very well. It's just that political parties see no value in the role at all and therefore any old Tom, Dick or Harriett it can do it.

[@SgtSteel1]

+Pip Pipster 1000 years Pip! There is a reason for that! You say they see no value there... The Lord Chancellor presides over the House of Lords!!!

[@r.shankarashrishsujay2822]

It's rare for Peter hitchens to clap that hard while applauding another person's arguments.

[@Danie9989]

Hear Hear

[@paulgavin3603]

Peter Hitchens, thumbs up. The rest should hang their heads in shame

[@freshasdida]

ＭＯＲＡＬ

[@MrDenzal27]

Who stopped Nigel getting a knighthood Douglas Castle? Ummm. I cant make it out?

[@seanmoran6510]

Clear and rational drowned by emotional tripe by idiot politicians!

[@Jide-bq9yf]

He has a brave and original take on issues ; perhaps not with as much depth as his late brother ; but certainly not to be sniffed at .

[@seanmoran6510]

Jide1000 His Brother was a 1960s Revolutionary Trot and remained so An Left wing Intellectual and Science Absolutist! Iraq Afghanistan!

[@georgeparkin4420]

​@@seanmoran6510well said.

[@roymeynell1076]

Politicians lost in world of un reality as usual .completely disconnected ,they don’t listen ,just talk

[@oriel229]

Hitchens is the man. Tories have become LABOUR. they certainly have. It started under the use;less drip Cameron, and is continuing under the equally useless Theresa Something-or-other.

[@lewisgreen2957]

Blimey, that thumbnail. Poor Peter looks like he’s morphed into Foghorn Leghorn..

[@richardduplessis1090]

The police chief probably just wants to make sure him and his cronies are in the clear

[@SagaciousFrank]

Bombay Bicycle Club guitarist, can't make thah s**t up. 😂

[@fohunter12345]

You can't stitch the Hitch!!!

[@notinterested100]

As the detritus of British establishment commentariat congeal and thicken, year by year, Htichen's hand turns into a living conch.

[@matchbox555]

too much video of the other panelists

[@nick281972]

Peter Hitchens is from the wrong century.

[@KKTR3]

David Dimbleby mr rude Mr arrogant-mr condescending, mr it's my way or no way. What tends to be nice whilst being dismissive and nasty of anything that doesn't fit in with his agenda

[@HughJason]

Too many politicians on the panel.

[@decekfrokfr3mdx]

Girl at 5.28 is a babe.

[@georgeparkin4420]

Well spotted man!

[@oriel229]

Funny thing about Truss. the minute she engages her gob, you just KNOW she's lying. must be the body language. I never get that feeling with Hitchens.

[@truthseeker8483]

Importing millions from third world countries does not help either....

[@ddd-ly3rv]

How should the most vulnerable in our society be protected? Help the offender? Thinking, well, there must be a problem with the offender is just trying to say we are all good people anyway. How come they don't pull their heads out of their arses and stop trying to win a miss world contest?

[@SocialDemocrat1789]

Peter, turns out he was wrong on Labor being able to win, just as he is wrong on everything else.

[@nathandurant2825]

Fascism? Who would have guessed.

[@Dimera09]

ARKS DOUGLISS

[@DieFlabbergast]

Dear British public (not you Mr. Hitchens, and a few other well-educated souls!): please be apprised that the word "police" is NOT pronounced "pleece". Thank you.

[@AlexGordonMusic]

DieFlabbergast its po-po

[@DieFlabbergast]

@@AlexGordonMusic Didn't he hang around with Winnie the Poo?

[@massivemagoo]

peters looking pretty old these days

[@aydan0161]

hugemagoo it's almost like people get older the longer they live

[@massivemagoo]

ooh such a sassy witty reply!

[@aydan0161]

hugemagoo you're my favourite sort of person!.. No feelings hurt & no ill wishing

[@Honking_Goose]

Yes I'm glad to see him slowly fading away

[@georgeparkin4420]

​@@Honking_Gooseyou're bound to be fading too.

[@pabsbenedetto773]

Peter Hitchens should be on every week