Peter Hitchens with Mike Graham | 27-Sep-21

[@adambritain5774]

Peter Hitchens is simply peerless. His contemporary and historical analysis is always 100% bang on.

[@boobrancher9941]

I agree with Hitchens he is a breath of fresh air...

[@seanmoran6510]

The Madness of Crowds written large is my opinion of this Country and the State of Western Thinking at this time.

[@SWMacLure]

I've only started following but already covered so much of Peters content. Love this guy!

[@saffarty390]

His brother's death has left such a void.

[@McChickenXCheese]

@@saffarty390 Douglas Murray is a worthy successor to Hitch.

[@anonosaurus4517]

@@McChickenXCheese Heck Peter is a worthy successor to his brother and in my estimation, is actually the superior mind of the two.

[@seandelap6268]

Every weather event is regarded as climate change now whether it's a long spell of sunshine or a heavy spell of rain suddenly it's an emergency and action must be taken even though these weather patterns are not out of the ordinary during the last century or so.

[@lizeggar2421]

Indeed. Climate has always changed. Always has and always will. So many people confuse climate with weather. Two different things.

[@AllenORourke1954]

@@lizeggar2421 It's a huge money making hoax, governments cottoned on to it years ago as a means of raising trillions in so called green taxes, check your electricity bill, 25% of it goes towards "environmental/social obligation tax" whatever that is...

[@patriciacopley8284]

You are so on the ball, exactly how it is!!! No climate change!!

[@georgeengland1699]

Sean is correct, all my life the weather has not changed one iota .

[@wolfiestreet6899]

For thousands of years societies have been subjected to the sin and repent protection racket. A natural phenomena occurs that is unfavourable and the public at large are blamed for it as a punishment for being sinners. Repentance is only achieved by handing over sacrifices in the form of goods, treasures and resources. One would of thought that in the age of reason after the enlightenment and the scientific method we would be freed from our extortion and exploitation by mysticism and superstition. Where did it all go wrong? It seems they hijacked and corrupted the science....

[@rankoorovic7904]

Not even Monty Python could come up with a British PM quoting Kermit the frog.

[@markrl75]

It's absolutely satire and mockery.

[@colliehouse3133]

Stay safe and keep well away from the jab folks. 👍🏻

[@thesmallnotesduo]

In other words, we will be fine when we just carry on as we used to do.

[@colliehouse3133]

@@thesmallnotesduo 👍🏻

[@the4thindustralrevolutioni159]

I'll give you another reason to stay away from it. If you hop on over to my (sounds like) flannel and listen to this newly discovered interview, in which I explain the real reason we're so keen for you to take it.

[@colliehouse3133]

@@the4thindustralrevolutioni159 ok. Will take a look 👍🏻

[@richards9407]

Nice dog.

[@Chris-kz7us]

I dated a girl from Lithuania and you can tell straight away she's had a better education.

[@wolfiestreet6899]

Better education than you, anyway....

[@testpilotian3188]

The other elephant in the room with regard to HGV licenses (apart from the 10 month backlog at the DVLA and no Class 1 tests being done) is the government told the NHS Doctors not to do employment medicals (aka private work) until they had cleared their backlogs, so even if you wanted to train as an HGV driver, nobody can because they can’t get medicals. You think it’s bad now, wait till those of us who have medicals every two to three years have to renew and can’t get them done, then the crap is really going to hit the fan.

[@Chris-kz7us]

Let's get back to coal mines and textile factories.

[@-DC-]

Who would have thought an industry of ridiculous hours low pay horrible conditions and terrible management would have a problem recruiting staff 🤔, They deserve everything they get.

[@richardhale9664]

You forgot to add overly burdomsom regulation. Unfortunately everyone picks up the bill for such mismanagement.

[@idreeskhan8885]

And yet people like YOU and the viewers of talkradio vote int he conservatives, the exact party which supports horrid corporate capitalist conditions. In fact they want to make it worse. The conservative party is the defender of corporate capitalism and the misery it has created.

[@minavanderleest9493]

@@idreeskhan8885 Oh please. Prior to the Conservatives coming to power in 2010 Labour was in power for 13 years. What did they do? Politcians of all stripes have caused nothing but trouble for ordinary people.

[@stuartbritton7408]

@@idreeskhan8885 Little do you realise that they are just labels. No conservatives support slave labour and greedy management. But you think they do. And that's the only thing that matters, isn't it?

[@idreeskhan8885]

@@minavanderleest9493 'Oh please', 'oh please'. Yeah oh please yourself because you know I'm giving ALL you low intelligence idiots some home truths. Forget labour I have no idea why you're mentioning a party that was in power over a decade ago in a completely different time and world. The conservative party has been in power for almost 12 years, an AGE, how about you hold them responsible for the things in society you don't like. At the very least at least the labour party helped out many working class people through increased social security/benefits (yes many people abused but it still helped many). You people seem to have no brain power and all say the same predictable rubbish like 'labour labour labour' even though the tories have been in power for well over a decade.

[@royalirishranger1931]

We are it would seem a dammed generation, we do not even have the possibility of some form of redemption , our down earth practically has evaporated and we are left with a moribund political system , sanity seem to have fled from our shores.

[@airen12able]

Lets coal up the country.!!

[@markjones4704]

our coal is mostly deep mined, and the largest industrial compensation the uk taxpayer is still paying 17bn to date to former miners for pneumoconiosis mining in this country is finished we have mined out all the easiest accessable coal since the start of the industrial revolution

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

To stat again, would require some considerable political will - not just standup to the green lobby, but the investment needed to reopen all the mines(they need big infrastructure) as well as the fact that we would need to rebuild the old coal powered power stations.

[@barryblack5562]

How reassuring living near a Chinese built nuclear power station. No thanks.

[@elizabethstockdale2784]

Dont want to be involved with anything from China… horrified they make the lateral flow tests..why are we still believing anything thats going on!

[@trevorparker6803]

20 Nuclear power stations would cover our electrical generating needs and give us some extra wriggle room to allow for servicing and maintenance outages etc. Half the money being spent on HS2 would cover the building costs.

[@carbonbasedunit3422]

Love it! A weekly oasis of sanity.

[@danhoppy5517]

Nobody expects... the Spanish Inquisition!!

[@richards9407]

Fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the pope. And nice red uniforms.......

[@seanmoran6510]

@@richards9407 Although I’d guess not this Pope 😉

[@seanmoran6510]

Huxleys Brave New World in action being discussed re modern consumption

[@SphericalHang]

I got my new drivers licence about 3 days after applied online. Was pretty impressive.

[@wernethblue7228]

Yes, got did my renewal online last month and it took a week.

[@toryfawn]

I renewed my driving licence in the post office on a Friday. And received my new licence the following Tuesday. Can not agree with Mike Graham, I find he makes it up as he goes along at times.

[@testpilotian3188]

It’s a different department that does HGV licenses.

[@wolfiestreet6899]

@@testpilotian3188 isssssss iiiiiittttttt ....

[@richards9407]

Peter seems a lot less grumpy recently. I think he's just resigned to it all now.

[@abb5596]

He has said so himself in previous interviews, though I'm quite impressed by your distinguishing of that

[@James_36]

problem with Peter is.. if a politcal party adopted all his views and the public supported every one, Peter would be the first person to oppose it

[@kenclark9743]

Ha ha...yeah. I am the same age as Peter and have just about resigned myself to a political world inhabited by grifters like Abbott, Lammy, Butler, Bercow, Jess Philips, Chris Patton....

[@richardhale9664]

He's probably basking in the afterglow of being proved right.

[@richards9407]

@@James_36 Maybe. I have always wondered why he isn't more supportive of others who seem to agree with him. There's a bit of Daffyd Thomas about him. "I'm the only Conservative in the village!"

[@rogerrodgers6550]

WE need to double the level of CO2 in the air which will bring about a green revolution such as greening the Sahari and Kalahari deserts and doubling the produce from typical farmland

[@rudymental9993]

They couldn’t Tax the plebs on that though🤷🏼‍♂️

[@thesmallnotesduo]

Sshhh! If the very very rich hear that they will want a some of the profits - about 99.99% of it.

[@raystewart3648]

Climat change is not about making things warmer. It will block out the sun more and cause a ice age. This is common knowladge for anyone that has a hint of edducation. Sahari will become a waist land over time as even deserts needs rain now and again. More cloud less sun rays and more trapped heat (above the clouds) not under the clouds.

[@mcmc1863]

@@raystewart3648 education?...look how you've spelt waste...(waist) 🤦‍♂️🤣

[@rudymental9993]

@@raystewart3648 global warming, global cooling, climate change. They change the name to suit what’s happening that decade so they can charge you taxes for it.

[@andyxox4168]

30 years ago I was commissioning Daya Bay nuclear PP in China, Framatome/GEC, and now we have to look to the Chinese when we need nuclear ... 🤔 Scrap HS2 and start our own (large scale) nuclear programme again ...

[@BooeyInTheWild]

Peter Hitchens is easily one of the most prominent and coherent Conservative speakers of our time, I love it when we get to hear him clearly precisely and coherently create his arguments, without interviewers interrupting him ridiculously. But I have one complaint that I hope Peter Hitchens he is, if he is this prominent and this famous and this knowledgeable he must purchase himself some better audio technology microphones to use on his computer, he does have a mumbling way of speaking and it’s very hard to hear him coherently from his own computer microphone. I’m really shocked that everyone in the media now that he’s surrounded by who interviewing haven’t actually noted this with him yet. I mean this in the most positive way possible.

[@duality8612]

GPs are refusing to carry out medical examination on HGV drivers

[@bigjimtanguk7525]

Me - I am against all things digital and think digital and Earth are just not mixing and the days these leave our lives the better. Thank you.

[@angusmcangus7914]

What makes anyone think this is coming to an end?

[@SagaciousFrank]

It's not. When things begin to crumble, it will likely spiral out of control, with the a long, major depression, the likes of which most have never experienced in their lifetime.

[@barneybiggles]

I used 4 litres of petrol queuing but did manage to get 3 litres in my tank.

[@tedmartin83]

Geoffrey Howe once used a cricket anaolgy about Thatcher where she was breaking your bat just before going out to play. Johnson is burning down the pavilion and pouring weed killer on the wicket.

[@Shikuesi]

Not being a cricket fan, I'm not sure why weedkiller on the wicket would do any harm? Are weed roots needed to keep the stumps in place?

[@richardk5246]

I don't agree that we should get rid of our nuclear weapons. We can keep them and invest in nuclear power.

[@raystewart3648]

Nuclear Weapons have nothing to do with Power Plants. Different tech. Trading Nuclear Weapons (thats a no no) Investing you say? How would you go about that?

[@lizeggar2421]

The only defense against another nuclear power is to have your own nuclear weapons. We MUST have nuclear parity in the US and UK

[@andrewyoung749]

@@raystewart3648 Nuclear Weapons have nothing to do with Power Plants. entirely false. you need the power plants to make the weapons. or at least reactors. which you then might as well use for power generation. our first power stations were making electricity as a by-product of enriching material for bombs

[@richardk5246]

@@raystewart3648 Did I say Nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants were the same? No, I didn't. I never mentioned trading nuclear weapons. By investing in nuclear power I mean by building more nuclear power plants.

[@angusmcangus7914]

We should have retained WE 177 as well as Trident.

[@simonwilton3546]

Love the big black jabba the hutt advert in the niddle of this going in about feeling like the odd one out because of racism!

[@ericboxer3053]

but according to bojo the commie going green is easy and very lucrative

[@Snoozzzzzze]

Furlough ending will result in a lot of people who moved back to Portugal, Rumania and many other countries receiving less U.K. a tax payer’s money. Unfortunately many airline and airport staff will be made redundant too. Perhaps a version of signing on should have been used.

[@tonymarshmarsh9176]

I really like both these two but it makes me chuckle when Mike Graham can't get a word on edgewise....

[@TheGreatApostate]

That's why they bring on guests, ask 3 questions and sit back for 30 minutes of diatribe from a well spoken person who will generate controversy.

[@stephenagar1878]

why would anyone want to b a hgv driver when the government has said they want them off the road in the next few years

[@gavinmillar7519]

Peter Hitchens always perceptive.

[@brianbanks703]

As Noam Chomsky sagely put it, people have happily queued up to be consumers instead of citizens. Employers, banks, governments knew they could easily exploit it.

[@seanmoran6510]

Huxley was there before him and other before him.

[@SagaciousFrank]

From what I can gather Noam Chomsky was a pretentious lefty.

[@mwng5186]

I earn around 80 pounds a day driving a 32tonne lorry...while 250 pounds a day gets spent on diesel.....a peculiar thing when the fuel expenditure is three times more than the man driving..meanwhile potentially around every corner lurks a man with a camera....4 mistakes and you lose your job....I lived in India for 5 years riding motorcycles everyday...i would not be alive today if so much attention had to be spent deciphering what the speed limit was amongst the plethora of brightly coloured signs and distractions..rather than driving to the conditions.

[@mwng5186]

I previously drove coaches driving kids and students to school and college and so on earnng less than 8 pounds per hour after tax....interestingly despite having 57 lives sitting behind me I would have earned significantly more driving sheep/lambs/pigs to the slaughter.....but being a vegan I wasnt prepared to do so...

[@mwng5186]

Perhaps most interestingly of all.....during the first lockdown i did not want 'free' money and so went to work for asda as a delivery driver...earning less than 7 pounds per hour after tax....

[@partidaportet27]

Most people who are home owners are facing the reality that their homes earn more money a year than they can dream of being paid

[@georgeengland1699]

HS2 has taken thousands of drivers out of circulation so why not cancel this vanity project or at least put it on hold till more drivers are licensed.

[@peterrees6335]

Yes Peter, I concur. I lost (mislaid) my driving license a few weeks ago and applied to DVLA for a new one and it arrived in a few days. I was pleasantly surprised. With regard to all the other issues discussed here - the lunatics have taken over the asylum.

[@testpilotian3188]

It’s a different department that handles HGV licenses, my mate is still waiting for his 3 months after doing the paperwork. Plus to have an HGV (or Private Hire) license you have to have a medical, the Government told the NHS to prioritise the backlog and not do private work such as employment medicals until the backlog is cleared, so if you want to renew a class 1 or PH license now, you’ve got no chance.

[@nockianlifter661]

Central banks and Government have debauched the currency until its worthless. Shortages are always at the beginning of crack up booms heralding hyper-inflation. It happened in France in 1790 and Germany in 1930. It happened to the Western Roman Empire and Ancient Greece. Every fiat currency that ever existed has eventually gone to zero.

[@anonosaurus4517]

One can only play "Pretend" for so long..

[@shamster7182]

Diversity is our strength, that's pretty obvious, just don't ask me why.

[@bigjimtanguk7525]

Diversity? Don't make me laugh! Bradley Walsh - a white entertainer - has now landed himself yet another TV role - everywhere you look he's there! Please -let's have some more black presenters.

[@johnfinbarrryan4240]

"I don't know even if their right or wrong..". One of the very few true quotes you get from the mail... They just don't know!

[@SteveNinetyski]

They're *

[@Maria-ox2qu]

Furlough was only introduced to keep the middling classes whose jobs have not been essential to the running of the country or business for the past 18 months from having to deal with the UC system and the potential political backlash thereof.

[@partidaportet27]

Hahaha furlough went to the same ruling classes as everything else. I give you 20 bucks, you spend it on Gas or at Tescos. All welfare is.designed to provide risk free,.zero rate money for people that already have it.

[@suki414]

i think Boris has never been a Tory , always an Infiltrator , imo . A "water melon" just like his Daddy and awful new wife .

[@charlytaylor1748]

Crowley rhymes with Holy, Mr Graham. Tut tut. That's you damned for eternity.

[@BooeyInTheWild]

Peter Hitchens, if you ever get to hear this, please take the time to get an audio technologist into your house and work with you on the computer to buy you a series of microphones one for your lapel, one for your computer, and one on a stand. So that we can all enjoy your knowledge better

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

Maybe if fracked the gas, then the remaining gas power stations we have would be able to handle our power needs. However, we need to significantly invest in "non green" energy - because it works! That's going to take some doing.

[@user-uw9zn7ob1s]

Fracking destroys water sources we desperately need on our Island😤 We dont need our land to be ruined by fracking!!😡🤬

[@user-wl1rw8gy8n]

Crypto is the future

[@user-hx3uv8oj8r]

Trading on your own is very risky, I've lost alot trading for my self

[@rulebravo5716]

Trading crypto now will be very wise but trading without a professional is not

[@benjames1588]

I wanted to trade crypto but got confused by the fluctuations in price

[@ABb-su3mv]

That won't bother you if you trade with a professional like Mr JohnBill

[@jeniferhills1606]

Yeah My first Investment with Mr Johnbill made me profits of over $24,320 US dollars and ever since then he has Been delivering

[@tonyclifton2230]

Two intellectual heavyweights here. I wonder how Mike graham is getting on with those concrete seeds.

[@wrongbrainthink6306]

talk radio is as guilty as ever of fanning these flames.........

[@Maria-ox2qu]

The generating life expectancy of a nuclear power station is around 30-50 years, but their legacy is far far longer and any benefit in the short / medium term does not outweigh the build / decommissioning / environmental closeting costs. When the government of the time talked about, and went ahead with, gas fired stations for electric generation - my thinking at the time was that we were going to run out of north sea gas for heating and cooking pretty soon. There's a lot of short sightedness going on. Is the thinking that the next lot / generation can deal with it as long as our needs are met right now! (I'm now wondering if my currently unused and covered fireplace can be reinstated - let's get back to old school and sod the rest of the planet as long as I can stay warm at a reasonable price!).

[@truthcerum1222]

Bottom gluing fanatics 😂

[@BN-hk6wf]

Jeremy Kyle is a weak addition to Talk Radio. A loud mouth. Shame as I’ve been drawn to The station since Covid19. But he’s put me off.

[@simonlevett4776]

I agree, i'm perplexed that Talk Radio have employed him.

[@oreilly1237878]

We will have to go back to coal for a certain amount of our energy.They have modern scrubbers to clean emmisions.Its madness not to do so.

[@dopesensi]

Peter, you took the beast mark for a plane ride ....

[@seanmoran6510]

🙄

[@jameswhitfield2711]

CLASSIC HITCHENS JAMES WHITFIELD EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE

[@jameswhitfield2711]

@cyborg1320 what does that mean

[@richardchurch9709]

I guess the Greens are still working out the details for their wind and solar powered space rockets.

[@suki414]

Plants LOVE CO2 !!! Commercial Veg growers have been using and still use CO2 GENERATORS for - plant growth ! they can easily be bought online for domestic use too . YT videos show plants growing very much faster with co2 then plants depleted of co2 .. it's all there to see , until these videos are taken down .

[@ragnardanneskjold6509]

Why is EVERYBODY wrong on the fuel issue? Rationing, £30 limits, only 'critical' workers etc etc, blah, blah. JUST like the toilet roll debacle and your solutions are JUST as pointless and ineffective. PUT THE FCUKING PRICE UP. It's as if the laws of supply and demand are alien to 99% of the fcuking population. When you've got no customers next week, PUT IT DOWN AGAIN.

[@sirtinley-knot2944]

I still can't listen to Hitchens.... such is my disgust at his betrayal of what he claimed to believe in.

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

I'll admit it's something that I have a lot of problems with now - especially as he seems to not realise that what he did helped accelerate the process of a digital ID and therefore a social credit system.

[@the4thindustralrevolutioni159]

Peter's clearly not going to bite the hand that feeds him, but perhaps his presence in msm helps the masses become more sceptical of government policies?

[@fionagregory9376]

Hi there Brother of Christopher.

[@winstonsmith9424]

you know he should do something with his camera positioning. he's improved a bit but still looks like someone talking to someone else

[@tonyoliver2750]

Christopher's smarter brother.

[@Dabhach1]

Who is Christopher?

[@tonyoliver2750]

@@Dabhach1 Christopher Hitchens.

[@jonathancortez7145]

Christopher Hitchens' brother.

[@SagaciousFrank]

His wiser brother.

[@MassiveLib]

Life on asylum Earth as usual. Different story same canvas

[@larrygerry985]

I normally agree with Peter, but he is totally off the mark, working from home works for a lot of people. The issue is more if your particular company has the IT infrastructure inplace.

[@tyqwdybijo]

@Larry Gerry You are a fool if you think especially Jobs that are needed to get you the food and water and electricity that you consume can be done from home

[@andrewyoung749]

@@tyqwdybijo yeah but youve picked specific things. most of the uks vast array of non jobs could be done from home as could most insurance/banking(but i repeat myself re non jobs)/law etc could be done from home with occasional meetings

[@Liam-yr4uf]

It's not just about IT infrastructure. Many people like the social aspect of their jobs and collaborating in-person. The office environment also creates a distinct work-space which people struggle with when working from home. Working from home certainly works for big businesses though: reduced office expenses, opens up the door for outsourcing, greater profits.

[@anthonybartlett6924]

i would rather sacrifice a vegan

[@raystewart3648]

Nuclear Plants, ok so thats the answer. Yet it can take 117 month (9.7 years) minamum to build just one plant. So Hitchen will be long dead by the time one or two are built. Its impossible to build more than 1 plant at a time due to the amount of resources our tiny little country would have to deploy to build said plant. Other larger countries have more resources, like America and Russia. After 20 to 40 years, that plant will have to be shut down anyhow. So its not a long term strategy at all.

[@stephenglasse9756]

Haven't Rolls Royce got the ability to develop them in much less time?

[@tinkytinca]

JibbyJab Hitchens still on Talksh!te radio?

[@dopesensi]

Only till the booster ...

[@dopesensi]

Only till the booster ...

[@dopesensi]

Only till the booster ...

[@dopesensi]

Only till the booster ...

[@dopesensi]

Only till the booster ...

[@richdespiseus6243]

Hitchens has no credibility now he's had the ridiculous jab.

[@roybeattie296]

Yes ..Ha Ha Peter 's Show ..............NO watt i mean Ha Ha

[@paulcowell7588]

You can just tell Peter has no time for the other bloke...

[@SagaciousFrank]

Who, Mike Graham? You know the idea is for the host to let the guest speak, right?

[@fyldeherbs]

Two old farts reminiscing about what things used to be like... but weren't really! Journalists using personal anecdote to consolidate their point. Same old, same old. But still interesting.

[@douglasrutter6809]

Is it me or does mr hitchens look somewhat pale since being double jabbed?

[@brianbanks703]

Ignorant nonsense sorry to say about Polish education: students have three Ms, which translates as learn, pass, forget!

[@wavell14]

Hitchens is a coffin dodger

[@rewdwarf123]

He's only 69!

[@gwhite1932]

Maybe 30 years ago

[@COROLrave]

It’s like 2 grandads born in the 30’s talking rubbish. Two massive supporters of rampant capitalism looking down on people wanting new trainers. The irony…

[@turbolevo8703]

Your future will be appalling and deserved.

[@COROLrave]

@@turbolevo8703 imagine being dull enough not to realise that they are condemning the very system that they so graciously promote.

[@turbolevo8703]

@@COROLrave You won’t be waving the hammer and sickle when you’ve grown up son. Just wait it out. I know growing up can be painful.

[@barneybiggles]

I used 4 litres of petrol queuing but did manage to get 3 litres in my tank.