Whenever I feel depressed and hopeless, I can always count on Mr Hitchens to cheer me up.

The long form interview on KZfaq has been a major vehicle for improving political debate. The media gatekeepers can't so easily control what opinions they allow people to hear, and it is an excellent thing for reasonable political discourse.

The awesome Peter Hitchens I could listen to him for hours.

Good interview. Please invest in better audio recording equipment.

Always great to hear a new interview with my favorite obituarist.

Peter's little laugh at the end! He's so cute 🥰

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Wonderful interview. Peter Hitchens never fails to impress and educate me. Thanks for this.

This was great- looking forward to future interviews.

Peter Hitchens, a National treasure.

That was brilliant. Always love hearing what he has to say 🤙🏾

Peter Hitchens, the Oxford Prophet. Quite remarkable.

Hello Tony, I believe that through time your channel with grow slowly but surely if you maintain your access to the high calibre of guests on show thus far. Good luck and Gods speed.

Damn, I know some people hold Peter Hitchens in slightly less regard then his brother, but each year this man provides a more interesting perspective that parallels his brothers. His thoughts on politics in Britain are really quantifiable when examining politics on a global scale.

I'm reading The Phoney Victory by Peter Hitchens. I would recommend it to anyone tired of the WW2 mythology and propaganda and who wants an honest, objective account of Britain's participation in the war.

this bloke is in a league of his own among the mainstream

Smoother than a velvet penguin.

PH ist a rock-solid historian and philosopher, observing the degeneration of Western society into a mulit-culti mixture of arbitrariness and depreciation of our values.

So appreciate interview but sound is falling short. : ( Woah Edit..at 54:25 sound clears up. Edit again..its bad again..then its good again.. : (

Peter Hitchens was the one who woke me up about the Tories and democracy. I thought the Tories if they had the right leader could be good, jbut even people like Rees-Mogg are weak on Islamists.

First! Peter Hitchens for #PhilosopherKing2020

Hitchens with the “Big L” reference! Either my cup of tea has been spiked with hallucinogenic drugs or the Simulation is mocking me!

Watching this in July 2020....very interesting talk. He seemed like a cantankerous, cynical, doomsadayer just 6 months ago but now? A prophet.

Just tuning in; looking forward to the relentless blackpill cascade.

Got yourself another sub

The problem with just staying home on Election Day is this: someone will still show up to vote, and someone will still win. The winner will likely be the one you like the least.

Put the microphone(s) nearer to the people speaking

dear lord 37:49, one year later the coronavirus hit hahaha

2:00 wait, what? The post office originates from King Henry VIII desire to read other people’s letters?!

This idea that if you have a better educated electorate, they might make better decisions eg when voting. That just isn't true. For one thing, it's an oversimplification. Levels of intelligence (measured how? ) or education don't stop people making egregious mistakes in their thinking. GroupThink, and this associated quasi-religious attitude to politics seem to make fools of anyone. Experts still make mistakes in their own disciplines, and they make even more stupid errors when they stray *outside* their areas of expertise. The amount of education/cleverness it takes to figure out what's going on when everyone is using political language, where we have no good way of predicting, where people have different aims in the first place and when most of the debate is a red herring - is vast. I'm not sure many people can really do it. The Guardian weekly publishes material by Oxbridge educated hacks who must have attended their tutorials, but then seem to have forgotten intellectual rigor as quickly as they could manage it. I'm not close enough to the academic world any more to really say but the standard of the teachers certainly does seem to me to have plummeted - or at least the Groupthink (again) worries me greatly, along with some fantastic intellectual hubris Everyone with a voice sneered at how stupid Brexiteers were, but having talked to them I wonder if they didn't show rather more intuition about what the EU was trying to do and what it meant for us. About trade deals they don't know enough, but who does actually know what is going to happen there? Economists' predictions are about as reliable as the weather forecast, it's not comparable to Physicists and engineers who can predict forces so accurately that we've sent space modules spinning round a comet 3 times before landing on it. There's just no comparison. They don't know what is going to happen

Where was this filmed?

36.49 minutes in - segment ... Visionary?

AUDIO PROBLEM AGAIN.......

20:35

Audio is horrible

The audio makes this unbearable to watch.

terrible audio.

sack the sound man

Import a American education system and see the results Dumbing down on a grand scale !

These kind of conversations really are a waste of everyone's time. Hitchens makes sweeping statements and neither he or the host pay any attention to obvious challenges to those assertions. Some examples, the word 'inflation' isn't mentioned once yet this was a blight before the changes of the Thatcher era, a blight that in other states has lead to complete collapse. Life expectancy is now greater, who knows what the price of that could be? Society is now more litigious, this means higher costs of living. There are many, many variables you have to mention if you are going to have this kind of conversation, ignoring them just renders the whole thing pointless.

Absolute Reality is an idiotic Titel. The man must read Sir Popper about science theory.. There is no reality - only models we develop. Hitchens also does not have a clue.