Peter Hitchens: "Testing has always been a bizarre fetish"

[@patricklangan5670]

I totally agree with Peter Hitchens. He voices what most of us think.

[@mikelheron20]

I'm not saying you're necessarily wrong but on what evidence do you base that? Have you seen an opinion poll?

[@MsMesem]

@@mikelheron20 plenty of sheep lining up to get tested, why ? I can't fathom

[@mikelheron20]

@@MsMesem Your inability to understand is possibly the result of a head injury or maybe you inherited stupidity from your parents. Just saying.

[@MsMesem]

@@mikelheron20 The tests have a 30-40% inaccuraccy rate, most positives aren't even showing symptoms and are therefore not contagious. The whole thing has been minutely planned; but at a basic level why test one day to get infected the next? Don't you believe health professionals and health funding could be better used? Insults aren't useful in a discussion. Testing just gives data to push for more control of the population.

[@sp4rtavus244]

@@MsMesem Deaths from Covid is doubling every week.

[@leddywood]

This is Peter Hitchens time. Thank you for stepping up and saying what needs to be said 👍

[@HuxleyWasRight]

Hitchens is a very wise man who is being proven right with each passing day! glad i listened to him from the start.

[@chrisc7265]

he's one of the few who called it from the start a lot have come around to his side, but they keep giving this line that, "at the start we didn't know what it was, so authoritarian lockdowns were okay" we knew what it was at the start, we already had data from East Asia, including the cruise ship incident which was basically a self-contained experiment

[@benedictcowell6547]

What I write is not trite, it is not flattery, it is Truth based on fact and reading over several decades, but you better heed it . The Young if they have awareness and alertness, know that you, the press, the Media and their politicians are failing them I am a Scientist who has spent his life protecting the Flora and Fauna and the Geomorphology of the UK [The Environment and Ecology] I am a Marxist and I am a Scientist but I support the culture, and even, as an Agnostic The Salvation Army, the World Lutheran Movement, the local Parish Church, because I live here. I have been a teacher and I teach them their culture, You do not understand Marxism, you do not understand anything worth while. .. As for the culture Well I know that the Economist they follow in England was a Scot. I know that the reactionary claim Burk an Irishman,[falsely I have Read Burk and Disraeli and Adam Smith I know the Tories claim Disraeli of Jewish decent. I am of Jewish decent so it is just a fact, not a slur. As a Frenchman remarked the English have a prison population because their Creed is lock Smith. What Threatens the UK at the moment is that a liar has come among you not to protect your culture, but to dismantle every Protection that has been incorporated into law during the forty years when you were in the EU. Not me destroying the UK but you!. You And if you have your way there will be no measures to Ameliorate Climate Change and you can deny it but the evidence is on the side of Science, not mendacity and pseudo intellectuals. If you ferret around you will will find my name and I have provided four case studies based on my own work, They none of them found a solution in popular hysteria and neurosis but they explained how Science [not conspiracy], works, how we sample, how we form an hypothesis based on the data, how we test it statistically, how it is scrutinised by external examiners, by referees in the field, in Journals, in conferences, and this Science is international When some one like Peter Hitchins casts doubt on the integrity of my work and that of y colleagues without knowing how Science works, confuses this Science with conspiracy, confuses it with Marxism and people like you may simple minded trite comments, you do a lot of damage, but I leave you with a question you might try to answer for yourself, What is their motive? What experience do they have of Science or the issues we concern ourselves with? Why this casting of aspersions, why this panic , because panic it and Farage and the reactionaries are either ignorant, or they are dishonest and in either case do not heed them because it impoverishes you own life and that of your wife and children and especially your daughters. I hope you principle is that you do not object to rape unless it is your daughter?? I will not trust a man who endorses Donald Trump knowing as he should, and does that the man he endorses as President of the is found guilty of Rape and Fraud, No man of integrity and Judgement can defend the law and endorse Trump, they are mutually exclusive ethically

[@paulalaye6428]

Oh my how did I miss the glorious Peter hitchens yesterday? Always a bringer of common sense thank God!!

[@elta6241]

This test thing is a huge scam.

[@arnesaknussemm2427]

marcus l because positive tests are being conflated with cases when they are nothing of the sort. The vast majority of people who are testing positive are not ill and have no symptoms. A case requires symptoms and a diagnosis. These are not present with most of these. That’s why.

[@adamxero]

Apparently the North East is ripe with Covid. I live in the North East and still don't know anyone who has had it.

[@davidpybus2192]

Middlesbrough here... same, dont know a soul whos had the Kungflu. Lockdown is killing countless people all on its own. Treason is hopefully still death by hanging...

[@tomwilko7841]

bradford w.yorks, my particular ward has been on the highest level of lockdown for months now...i too know not of anyone who has contracted the virus

[@tomwilko7841]

another snippet that may be of interest is the breakdown of my particular constituency's lockdown....i live in keighley which is a medium sized poverty stricken town outside bradford...for political reasons years ago we were joined with the extremely affluent (for w.yorks) town of ilkley to make one constituency, as a result we are much more likely to be burdened by young inept tory mp's getting elected, as os the case atm, these mp's have the final say in looking at the data and announcing which individual wards within the constituency have to go on 'extra' lockdown...can you guess which ward has been on full lockdown for months despite having exactly the same (seemingly harmless) percentage of population officially contracting covid??? and which ward has been left to carry on regardless?? the petty politicisation of covid by robbie moore mp, keeping every tory voting ward in the constituency out of lockdown and throwing the labour wards under the bus, without, crucially, any more covid cases, has caused great pain in keighley, it bears a resemblance to the grouse shooters/hunting parties being exempt from that rule of six law to me, one rule for us and a different rule for them, i dread to think what is happening to jobs here and across the north, i think we're past the threshold of being able to save thousands of jobs in this one town, i'm glad im old, absolute lunacy

[@tomwilko7841]

@Saor Alba amazingly keighley was solid blue throughout maggies reign, right to buy council houses was a big pull, also the fact we are joined with an affluent town not even linked to our city 15 miles away plays a huge part in the tories constantly winning my constituency

[@Kendall42971]

@WhyOWhy I'm here in Los Angeles California and both of my sisters work in the ER at one of he largest hospitals in Chicago, and they continue to tell me that their Covid unit remains empty!!!! It has been clear to me from the very start that this whole things has nothing to do with a so called deadly virus. Instead, something very wicked this way comes.👀🇺🇸

[@noweternity3101]

Thank you Mike Graham for your excellent, ongoing interviews with Peter Hitchens, who right from the beginning has told the truth & he continues to do so !

[@adrianbarton4917]

Just occurred to me that I, and I'm 67, living in the plague ridden north west, have not to date, spoken to, heard of or even heard rumours of anyone who has contracted, let alone died of this Deadly and hyper virilent disease! This is also taking into consideration the fact that my mother who was 95, living with at least 3 other serious co-morbidities, being looked after at home by a raft of carers, spent the last months of her life in two near empty hospitals, being kept away from family and freinds and in the end scared stiff to see anyone only to be kept free of the Wuflu in order to be healthy enough to die of natural causes!

[@dfordiligence2398]

Even the vast majority of the people who are well aware that we are being lied to still believe there is a new infectious disease caused by a virus, even though they are unable to present any evidence for this. Peter Hitchens and Mike Graham are two such people, and the vast majority of the people in this comments section also share this totally baseless belief in the existence of a new viral disease.

[@jonnya4209]

Wake up most days feel sick in the stomach, worried about the future, dreading the next months even think about my own mortality - all due to the response to covid not covid itself. Dare say millions more feel the same.

[@philipprice171]

I know how you feel mate. I think it is because we are being de-humanised, bombarded constantly from all directions , announcements, signs, media, muzzle wearers. It is suffocating us mentally. (excuse the pun).

[@paulandrews7622]

Philip....... Perfectly put. Sad but true.

[@dtm5555]

More excellent analysis. Thanks to both of you for speaking out.

[@heatherowen1898]

newsflash winter comes round every year and people survive

[@rosiebanks5618]

with better immune systems from being out and about .... this year.... God only knows

[@redset11]

More common sense from Peter if only we had people like him in government.

[@daikayll1897]

Thanx Peter. Great to hear your sensible views.

[@mikejackson19828]

I always look forward to my weekly dose of Hitch.

[@jules2545]

Nail on head - 'phoney wrestling match' but they are all pals.That describes UK politics.

[@jules2545]

@marcus l No, I disagree, Marcus. I want distance between my political parties. Parliament and the House of Lords are one big chumocracy that we are not invited to, just pay for.

[@dougclay1098]

They've all been promised a seat at the big table after the great reset. They are all expendable once they have served their purpose

[@euphoricbliss6699]

Yeah these stupid idiots thinking they are gonna get a piece of the pie make me sick

[@su4914]

I’m really sick of it now. 😞

[@anthonywilson4415]

About to become Public Enemy 1. He will be proved to be the most ilI Informed,arrogant. damaging moneymaker, prattttt. EVER.

[@1oldgit]

errrrr Blair is a very close 2nd if not No.1 with the huge ongoing costs of his policies.

[@roberttucker805]

That must be Sir Patrick Vallence who has a £600k stake in Glaxo Smith Kline. He'll be making a fortune when the miracle vaccine comes on the market. Keep up the fear and he's laughing all the way to the bank!!

[@spiskoed]

If you don’t have a TV the virus doesn’t exist 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@williamwimbourne856]

I'm glad you have PH on every week 👍

[@jonscot1202]

Great show again chaps, I’ve lost count 👍🏼

[@avrilduffy4643]

Test to get everyone's DNA

[@antoniamaskill2674]

England 2 Germany 0 That’s exactly what they want - your DNA The government has been talking about it for years.

[@barbarossa5700]

It's taken at birth with the heel-prick tests, there is an exception foreigners coming into the country but if your born in the West the government already has it.

[@chatteyj]

@@barbarossa5700 Since what year? I went to have an operation on my leg a year ago and the nurse took a swab I think for dna with barely any permission, she sort of just said this is what we do now at the NHS. Do they need permission to take a dna sample in hospital?

[@antoniamaskill2674]

Barbarossa Barbarossa I don’t think they kept a DNA data base before computing era.

[@SAHBfan]

Interesting how this weekly interview started out with Mike Graham saying "I do not agree with Peter Hitchens but I think he should be allowed to speak" - weeks later he seems to pretty much agree with everything he says. That is what happens when you let people speak. Sometimes, you learn something and change your mind. This needs to happen very much more...

[@barneybiggles]

If it was doubling every week the whole of the population would have had it in five months time

[@glennbowen]

Possibly the most profound words from Peter thus far.

[@seanmoran6510]

It’s up to us the general public NOT to vote for these people !

[@freedommatters3176]

Love listening to Hitchens Graham

[@louisetaylor2131]

Hey guys it was about 2 years since I lost my innocence and stopped believing the bbc and other MSM. I would love to have trusted Auntie back again but cannot watch it all now it’s so anger provoking

[@BARNTRIKEMAN]

When you think the clowns couldn't get any worse......Hancock says..."Hold my beer."

[@moon1val]

Monday morning. Peter Hitchens. Yes please

[@EuropopTop]

Yay One of my favourites - Petey Hitchens - along with Mike, Mark, Julia, Neil Oliver and Plank of the week - these sustain me during these mad times!

[@EuropopTop]

catharion i understand. in the UK at least you have talk radio etc, in my country contradicting the leader is frowned upon - she is so revered😕

[@Jim_Lahey101]

Mr Hitchens still rocking his dissident beard hahah, brilliant.

[@trevorrandom]

Giving away Amazon vouchers if you get tested is a dead give away as to what's really going on here!

[@UKtoUSABrit]

Love Hitchen's "fake wrestling match" analogy. That is spot on.

[@margaretfoley1247]

As usual ,Peter talking so much sense ❤️

[@TribalFusion]

Save Our Rights UK is the group that I'm with, they organised the London protest on the 26th last month and again this month in London on the 24th.

[@jamesscottvideos]

Yes, a very dangerous place to be.

[@lollypton4572]

Ahh my weekly dose of sane discussion and objective reasoning

[@darrenwilliams2921]

The Welsh police forces seem to be doing a cracking job on forcing business's and pubs to shut for not complying with Covid rules and issuing fines . Then i read the local news reporting that there are outbreaks of infections in hospitals , schools and Universities all across Wales on a large scale . The Welsh Government are at war with small business and pubs ,yet that's not where this virus seems to be spreading even though we have had outbreaks at a few factories across Wales .

[@josephstalin7389]

The mask provides a flaw sense of security

[@UKtoUSABrit]

Recommend everyone listens to Hitchens, at least once a week. Agree, or disagree with him, he WILL test your thinking.

[@colinmann3480]

We have a lot of THINK People in England. About time they open their EYES, & see what really going on.

[@michaelpalmer8629]

When this is all over it'll be interesting to see what emerges. So far it looks like we won't have cinemas or NHS dentists

[@michaelpalmer8629]

@Colm Deasy the Stone Age. But we will have wind farms & electric cars

[@dylanthomas3511]

They keep saying "cases" instead of these very dodgy "positive tests"

[@fionagregory8078]

I only had a lot of colds when my son was at primary school and not after that at all.

[@MisterstereoOso]

The beards coming along nicely Mr Hitchens....

[@thehoodedbean8142]

i love listening to Peter Hitchens, straight shooting common sense!

[@markgreen7378]

The only Alternative party worth supporting is Patriotic Alternative.

[@dragons_flight]

"Never believe anything until it's been officially denied" Love it !

[@fionagregory8078]

Agenda 21

[@gerardk51]

BoJo must GoGo! Problem is, as Peter Hitchens pointed out, who do you replace him with in this government?

[@philburtonfrench]

Hitchens absolutely spot on with every single point he makes

[@garyroe2929]

Absolutely brilliant as always keep it up Lads , but for god sake drop the adverts , on a 14 minute interview they were 6 ad breaks ,

[@corinnewatts6683]

I believe the problem is that professional politicians have the wrong skill set for governance. They are literally all talk and no action. Sadly the Parties aren't recruiting anybody with actual real world experience. Might get a few less stuff ups.

[@mikemines2931]

My mother always said I was a testing kid.

[@vanessawood-hopps6298]

A good conversation

[@susanleatherbarrow2495]

Hitchens talks sense, only journalist that does.

[@cthornback]

bloody hell alot of adverts !!

[@Max.RobynYT]

They need to air this on television

[@ducktack1]

My weekly sense of logical thought. So many i speak to are now questioning the tests v the deaths and the strict laws being implemented.

[@spiskoed]

A virus so dangerous that you have to look for it 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@psuee5]

Give these 2 a whole show

[@gabrielleheard6366]

Good to hear Peter's succinct views

[@beverleybutler7685]

We have a beautiful country, why do the government want to destroy it?

[@wazztvproductions]

Because they’re in the pockets of far more powerful and influential people. Money talks.

[@Ella-ir7mn]

Love Peter's bookshelves in the background.

[@fionagregory8078]

Why were the Nightingale hospitals built at all?

[@antjeynes2489]

We are on the brink...no going back now.

[@georgedonnellan36]

You have my vote.

[@Lee_303]

Create HIV / ebola / coronavirus / etc etc etc to do away with some undesirables. Tell the rest of the population to be careful & carry on working & pay taxes. They can do this. They have done this. They are doing it.

[@crossley941]

Well done Mr Hitchens.

[@LLLLLLLLLucas]

Exactly my thoughts.

[@uploadvideos5860]

why don't the government get rid of the two Medical Science Experts as they have no clue, and place them with Graham and Hitchens and throw Farage in the mix after all these three know all about this virus more than the Experts.

[@targetedlondon]

I'd like to know whether these tests take a sample of DNA and if so what happens to it?

[@chrisbell5032]

Peter Hitchens, how is it to be done then and who by? Us getting angry and ill/suicidal because of it is pointless then.

[@karlmarx9413]

I still love his brother .

[@michaelbaker2465]

An interesting final point. Opposition in the people just gives the govt more reason to crack down. What is needed is political opposition. It won't come from the actual opposition party; maybe from inside the Conservatives? There are one or two signs.

[@salnaturile8653]

There simply isn't time for a fledgling party to be formed, properly organised and start providing any real opposition.

[@Mark_Dyer1]

Not one of them - Johnson, Hancock, Sunak, Patel, Whitty, Vallance, Cummings, or Ferguson - must be allowed to simply continue with their lives IF this is ever over. As Peter points out here, all the damage has been done BY these people: and they must be held fully accountable for their actions. HM The Queen could start by DISMISSING Johnson from Office; to force the Tories to consider who their leader should be. Then the trials could begin. Then 'The Science' could be brought into play to provide evidence against these bastards. Think of their cruelty toward the Nation's children! Think of their cruelty toward young couples with families to support. Of course, as Peter also points out: to prevent justice from taking its course, we must anticipate suspension of our usual system of justice, through the imposition of Martial Law, to enable them to leave the Country!

[@stargateten]

The PCR testing kits were being made as far back as 2017

[@jtk1ify]

"collective punishment" ! that is exactly how lockdown feels

[@davidowens4145]

The Liberals voted against the Coronavirus Act at least. Give them some credit. A bit surprising to me because I thought it was mainly leftists who believed in this Covid nonsense.

[@michaelbaker2465]

I think it was a token vote for most of them. They support it apart from one small section about carers.

[@terencematthew1]

Why don't you join Lawrence fox .

[@no.7593]

Very good!

[@hometruthshomie8688]

Peter Hitchens should be the leader of the opposition. In any parliamentary debate with Johnson and Co., he would tear them a new one! That is what real challenge is, not Starmer!

[@chobson8602]

testing is not a cure

[@067captain]

Thanks for that weekly dose of sanity. I would love you both to look forward to the obvious end game, which was mentioned in Parliament this week and that is immunity certificates. This is the final tyrannical step, whereby the vaccine is compulsory and a certificate is issued to the vaccinated which allows them some level of freedom. Those of us that will not succumb, will be excluded from normal life because an immunity certificate will not be issued. Please discuss!

[@fionagregory8078]

I do not know anybody who has had this pretend virus.

[@ryanbaxter3127]

Peter talks so much sense

[@fionagregory8078]

That NHS thing on your phone says your postcode is medium risk no matter what postcode you enter so obviously it is useless. You try it with different postcodes from all over the country.

[@Sue-rp6dq]

BBC the shepherd for the sheep !

[@cadartist1749]

Hancocks arrogant retort to an MP who dared to criticise him confirmed that he believes he is above parliament and the law when he said... "I will not hear divisive remarks" or to that effect. A complete psychopath.

[@airen12able]

Put the governement to the Gulag.

[@lambseekh3619]

We are not sheep anymore, but rather lambs to the slaughter

[@markoakley8526]

WHY wont the sheep wake up -- for god sake WHY?

[@jeannineros8813]

DNA testing

[@fionagregory8078]

I will never bother wasting time v.o.t.i.n.g. at all.

[@rideforever]

Society is dying through mechanisation and the sludge of superficiality. Stupification. The easy money from plastic banking and dodgy debt society has devalued all human life. Meanwhile the trade agreements that last 20 years or more ... mean politicians cannot change much, now the world has been taken over by multinational groups like WTO. MPs as they arrive at Westminster are quietly told that they are not allowed to change anything or they would break free trade agreements. Meanwhile the biggest corporations like apple google have total monopolies in society and nobody can do anything. Which causes a deathly narrowing of ideas. Society will contract unto death.

[@lydlynch1021]

Berliners did a silent march for human rights yesterday. Mass peaceful resistance against these political thugs and their measures is what is needed now.

[@justinjay6930]

bats have been flying around with 20x forms of covid for thousands of years, ...and they are not even self isolating

[@justinjay6930]

@James Nicholls make them wear masks

[@sebulreath7401]

This will be remembered as a calamitous series of events by historians and the public of a government who are incredulous in thier ineptitude and ruinous over reaction to a virus which is 99.6% survivable by the vast majority of society.

[@UncleBoratagain]

A truly pompous and socially distanced gland of a human being