I am a royalist but for him to be arrested for what he said is lunacy. Deeply troubling.

Agreed

He had a left wing brother. I'd imagine they had some interesting conversations together.

@@rustynail1194 there is a recording of them debating each other. Easy to find on KZfaq. Christopher rips him apart.

@@rustynail1194 They did, Christopher switched from left to right as his waist band expanded. I miss the Hitch!

100%, might not agree with him on much but he always argues from a position of good faith, which is increasingly uncommon among conservatives

Becoming? 2020 covid act anyone? Anyone?

Ha Ha, the left brought in hate speech laws little thinking they would could be applied to them.

Its what the tories want.

Teetering!!! Went Over That Edge Over 10 Years Ago!!!!!

@@petyrkowalski9887 “the tories, the tories, the tories” Grow up. They all want it.

He'll always be the 'idiot' brother.

@@factstrumpprejudice6740 who, Peter Hitchens (compared with Christhoper) or Prince Andrew?

@@clockywork Mr Hitchens, although the pedophilic royal is equally qualified.

And now Randy Andy will be deputising for Charley boy

@@tonyskoyled5949 says more about King Charles iii dopey judgement

Educated?! Hmm. I understand the word, but I'm not sure I understand how you are using it!

Hitchens was one of the first to line up for the SWEET JAB 💉 Hitchens speaks words … Words … Words … And more words … But the man displayed no substance 🤷‍♂️ when it mattered most

@@stueyapstuey4235 Peter is obviously highly intelligent. Not that you have to agree with him, but undoubtably extremely bright.

I May Not Agree With Everything He Says(Far From It) But Respect What And How He Says It. Its Very Refreshing And Somewhat Captivating How Well Peter Speaks!!!

Seems to have taken the most important thing from his time in education. That being the ability to form an understanding of the world and develop his own opinion on things logically and separate from social and institutional hysteria and flavour of the month ideas.

now I actually understand that joke after watching that film so many times. 😂

“Who are you?” “I am Charles, King of the Britons” “Well I didn’t vote for you”

@@Alex-pk1iy "you don't vote for kings" "How do you become king then?" "A lady of lake arised from her shimmering Semite, held aloft Excalibur from the bussom of the water, signyfing by devine Providence that I Arthur, king of the Britons, should wield Excalibur, THAT is why I am your king"

@will hardy I'm just glad the following of Monty Python exists. 😂

His name was Denis coincidently but they insisted on calling him young man

Positivity is overrated, much like your comment.

@@j.stutton4146 who overrated it?

There's loads of people like hitchens ,but you simply don't know them or more likely don't listen stop idolising people and pedestalizing them people like hitchens do not care for your admiration you completely miss the points they make in doing so , more over if you are in such awe of this man why are you not modelling yourself upon his ideas and mannerisms ? The world wouldn't miss him when he's gone then would they ?

@@ThomasDoubting5 Do you even care about punctuation?

Yes. A great comment. Both brothers are towering intellects; just different perspectives. Christopher appealed to the Left, but in truth could be a smug, bumptious, and rather slef-regarding individual. Peter always came across as more grounded after a very varied life which included living behind the Iron Curtain. I respect both equally.

@@hittitecharioteer Wise Words!!! You Don't Have To Agree But RESPECT Is Always Vital!!!

...or take up pitchforks & firebrands

Peter Elkins So it's legal now to protest against Americans? About bloody time!

Pretty much the same as Russell Brand but with more brandy.

Probably something along the lines of do some drugs and moan about god.

@ :D

@ ROFL, nicely said :)

Unfortunately he saw quiet a bit of this coming. Particularly the right of Christian nationalism.

When you protest the monarchy here in the Netherlands they will arrest you and take you away. Then at the police station they will decide it isn't an offense afterall and let you go again. But by then the event will have passed, the monarch have left and with it your chance to get attention when it's relevant. Its quite an insidious way of limiting one's freedom of speech.

But that is part of the legal and computer network. Your arrest is a fact. If you are arrested several times for loitering outside a school and no charges are brought this a point of interest and police intelligence. You are saying the file should be torn up each time?

@@peterh1353 A charge or a caution should be the fact. If they arrest you then release you without charge, you either haven't actually broken the law, or it's a case of mistaken identity. If they need to interview you further, then that should still be a private matter (although share-able with other police personnel and forces), until a charge can be brought or a caution made.

Indeed!

That would be great. If people really convinced by their own awful ideas stuck to them. Yes. What a fabulous idea

@@hmq9052 does that not then apply to you too??

@@stickyikyno1 Which bit? The sarcasm? Or the obviously stupid premise?

He's not a journalist. He's a pundit. Journalists are interested in the truth. Not giving their opinions

'I could listen to Peter Hitchens for hours' So could Peter Hitchens.

The social decline is what happens when you reject God & try to replace religion with a bunch of abstract idea's.

@@mattd5073 Oh give it a rest. Not everything is about your God.

@@mattd5073 nonsense

Its really really sad to hear that... we are in real trouble

Iraqi Moustache.

ABSOLUTELY Comrade Kirk.

Not sure I'd call it "unique". It's a fundamentally religious - specifically Christian - take but that's not especially rare unfortunately.

Loved Christopher Hitchens. RIP

@@Zatnicatel yes but it's rare to see people in the UK (especially columnists) who are willing to criticize every political party, it's especially the case that the UK right has started copying the US right and somebody who's willing to stand up for police accountability, the NHS and gun control as opposed to just complaining about'wokeness' and refugees is refreshing.

Interesting the two didn't really get along.

Faced a court on what charge?

The nonce should be ridiculed at every opportunity.

Do your research dopey.

Why not try to read some of his (many) books before spouting this drivel.

@@adambritain5774 Do any of his many books contradict what he said here? That he has written a book on the current state of the education system while admitting he has absolutely no idea what is being taught? Because if not then that is a completely irrelevant comment, and so in your own words; drivel. And if they do contradict what he says here, then is he a liar? Either he writes books on subjects he self admittedly knows none of the core relevant information about or he lies about the amount of knowledge he has on the subject during interviews, neither of which makes me that enthused to go read through his (many) books. The quantity of them only serves as a greater waste of my time, not as a suggestion of his talents. I'm just paraphrasing what he has said here, if any of it is drivel it is because it's coming out of his mouth.

Neither are not that great.

@@DJWESG1 better than Harris brothers

Religious then I take it

@@TheIrulex Christopher Hitchen’s intelligence, his knowledge and understanding, his humanity and character, his oratory skills as well as his debating skills, plus his quick wit made him undoubtedly fascinating to listen to, whether you agreed with him or not. The (admittedly long-winded) debate: The Catholic Church - a force for good? was extraordinary and the ending result largely due to CH and Fry’s almost magical ability to reason with a those of opposing views and a predominantly undecided audience.

@@micixduda prefer the Mario brothers if I'm honest.

Sidelined, like writing for the most popular paper in the country? Rigggght ok

@@ozjob actually no, he writes for the Sunday edition which is entirely separate apart from the owner & the printing presses.

@@alanhat5252 either way hardly silenced for his views.

He's on loads of media outlets as he's controversial. An easy game to play these days as you only have to say something and get 'cancelled'. Get more media coverage than ever before on the channels that like what you're saying.

Sidelined does not mean silenced - just not taken notice of.

Not at all droll.

True but I think that a lot of reporters go out in the street to find the most inarticulate people they can to stick a microphone at and jab questions at them There are enough intelligent people that they could interview but now they trawl social media looking for the next Katie Hopkins

A bit late for that! ☠

What is it? It intrigued me too

Sells yas. Obviously.

Wise up he pushed coivd jab and u took it

Respect for him coming on and speaking, but there are still so many holes in his arguments.

@@ciaranmac8689 you're funny.

@Crinklechips, he *is* from all sides of the political spectrum! He hasn't held a steady viewpoint in decades. He's quite good at arguing his current position though it may have changed by next week.

He's a lying weasel but he constructs his sentences as though his tedious assumptions and wildly inaccurate summations are laws of nature. The waffling pompous twat.

Especially when you don't read or can't ! Troglodyte!

@@isaackahn7188 yeah nice spin, bro

I agree - it’s on it’s way

Doubt lays at the origin of all truth. Only by questioning something can you understand it.

Just demonstrably not true though is it. Ever. Across space and time of the entirety of recorded history.

PH is conservative, not Conservative.

Absolutely correct. For a number of years, i have worked as a delivery driver for schools and it is indeed like entering prison. High security gates, barbed wire fences, cctv and a series of procedures to approve your admittance. In my case, the supply area for kitchens. Yes, children need to be safe and yet children have never been safer. Turning schools into little concentration camps is actually counterproductive to their education, mental health, social behaviour and their worldview. Infact it's a very dangerous thing and it's getting worse.

Damn she wanted you dead.

When you can!

He speaks for the majority view.

@@davidreed9671 Thank You.

@@davidreed9671 he does but most people on this channel are left wing. I usually come on here just to wind them up.

@Dominion Philosophy yes I know the do but JOE is full of those north London types. I view just to keep an eye on the opposition

He does this for Alexander Johnson as well, the point being that "Boris" (like "Tony") is a friendly character he plays to fool the public into thinking he's harmless.

Yes, you are right. Somehow it sounds worse than that bastard war criminal.

he left the Conservative party in 2003 saying the Party is "the biggest obstacle to true conservatism in the UK."

@@alanhat5252 I am aware of the man's credentials as a right wing nut job. As I said I do not approve of his politics. This does not mean that he is automatically wrong about everything. What I took away from that interview was that he was concerned about the behaviour and conduct of police officers in recent years, the worry that people have to go through before exercising their right to speech, and the disturbing shift towards presumption of guilt in the wider culture. I do not think being worried about that kind of thing is either a left or right wing issue. Extreme or otherwise. The scenes that unfolded in Edinburgh and London over the last few days should concern ALL of us.

@@shelltune I agree we should all, left or right, be very concerned that it's happening but the fact of it happening is on this occasion very much a right-wing agenda.

Well, he does talk a lot. Sense, not so much!

He talks a lot of rubbish but he makes it sound like sense because he's a good speaker. The idea that free speech is always a positive is evidently not true, given that it grants immense influence to the well funded far right, who have controlled this country since the advent of facebook advertising.

​@@TheDandonian Free speech is always a positive. It shows when there are good ideas an bad ideas. For example. Who are 'far right?" I can specify who 'far left' are. I'm a centre right Classical Lineral by the way.

@@TheDandonian If the far right control this country how come it is full of immigrants?

​@@ArgentWolf95 Freedom of speech is a utopian ideal yet in practice, nothing more than a trojan horse. The biggest of all the big lies is that it's a positive. Those of us who understand marketing, know the ultimate power that it gives to the wealthy, at the expense of the rest of us. Take our little chat here... You and I could argue as equals, exchanging points of view in a fair debate but if you were a wealthy man and you desperately wanted to win the argument in the minds of on lookers, all you'd need do is pay someone to set up multiple accounts, have them belittle my view and me, whilst repeating your views as facts. As for who are the far-right, we've sadly reached a point where most of the cabinet are far-right. Coffey, Mogg, Farage, Braverman, Truss along with the likes of Ben Elliot, Rupert Murdoch, Andrew Neil, Dom Raab and Steve Bannon. These people have gone to great lengths to remove our rights, trampled on the ones we still have, whilst pillaging our nation. They used freedom of speech to convince a nation that a man who spent his life campaigning against the injustice of inequality, was in fact a racist. Tell me how that is a positive?

Ah yes ,the free US republic, where if you insult the flag you will be arrested, as opposed to the UK where you can turn the Union Jack into a pair of hot pants and sit on it, and nothing at all will happen. All that shows is that you really know very little about Republics.

Patel did a lot of damage

I completely disagree. I do not believe UK policing ever had tact or charm.

Leadership is full of left wingers who view all crime as a product social of social conditions not a choice people make. They also don’t believe in punishment.

@@fujohnson8667 I mean they are objectively not full of left wingers, particularly if you look at the met's response to the crimes of the conservative party during the pandemic, and its disproportionate treatment of marginalised people. And yeah crime can be a personal choice, but if the social conditions mean that someone has to choose between starving to death and stealing food then quite clearly the social conditions are imposing a situation where committing a crime is the only reasonable option, and to expect people to take the opposite route because of a misguided ideal of "illegal = immoral" is completely inhuman.

@@MrMyers758 when your local Bobby was patrolling your streets at night, rest assured you felt safer - my parents and grandparents can speak to this. Whether you’ve had a generally positive/negative experience with members of the force or not is redundant, what matters is that once upon a time the police, as an institution, actually did their jobs and upheld public safety and order.

Absolutely.

He was a dreadful NeoCon and even backed the Iraq bloodbath.

Which one? The pre 911, or the post?

@@space.youtube It's true! 😂 I loved him too and he just lost his mind. My theory has always been that he felt a sense of betrayal when the left chose religious reverence over his good friend Salman Rushdie and pivoted hard. But boy what a miscalculation to defer criticism of Islam... to the Bush Administration.

He was so pretentious and wrong. His fans are insufferable with their personality disorders.

He's not being tested here. So it's basically an advertisement for him. Like he does in GB news and talk radio

The fact he has deveoped a friendly rapor with Owen Jones is a welcome relief to the ideological bickering that is most mainstream political discourse

Surely it depends on the nature of the offence? Big difference between protesting or abusing somebody vulnerable for example

A “No further action” arrest has no impact

@@matthewsmith2787 that would be nice if it were real

@@matthewsmith2787 the nature of an alleged offense is confidential, the fact of an arrest isn't.

@@CertifiedSlamboy Are you sure about that?

Yes, that made me raise an eyebrow too and I was frustrated that Joe didn't challenge him on that. The UK monarch does have some not insignificant constitutional powers.

@@ballyhigh11 All you have to do to be considered a great thinker in Britain is talk posh.

Immumity from both civil and criminal law - sovereign immunity - isn't exactly no power. Peter is being disingenuous. The monarch has tremendous power (and wealth). It's only the public facing aspect we see as ceremonial, but in private they still hold power.

The enemy being simply stupid is one of his cheap tricks. John Cleese is like that too. All his opponents and opposers do so through stupidity. The prism that a lot of privately educated people see through.

censored -- it's quite different.

His politics are the politics of let them starve and freeze. His nose rising in the air. Never gets stopped, just counter argued better.

He is a genuine conservative with a small c. Big C conservatives put to much trust in the Free Market. That's why Conservatives haven't conserved anything for the last 70 years.

He's a total ex Conservative

Probably because he's an old school Tory not a neoliberal nutcase like most of the contemporary right-wing. I find that I don't always agree with him, but when I do, I really agree with him.

He's too sneaky for me.

He is far from sensible.. Case and point would be that he believes that we have never truly had a 'war on drugs' and that drug addiction is a lifestyle choice - A broken clock is still right twice a day.

Just because he sensible on the basic issue of protesting?.... really low bar right there

Maybe we could have some sense from the left occasionally?

@@mj9663 There is no war on drugs or they would go after the predominantly middle class students and kids that take them. Oh wait they can’t go for people who come from privilege.

It's so hard not to, though. I do feel a bit sorry for him, though. Christopher was such a wonderful, unconventional thinker. I disagreed with him on a few topics, and yet still enjoyed and appreciated his arguments for the position he took.

Christopher was a Jacobin Polemic

@@joisagirlsname Christopher was an utterly conventional Trotskyist. He also supported the war in Iraq. By the way, Peter Hitchens opposed it (at the time).

@@recoveringscot3587 you've managed to uncover some of my points of disagreement with Christopher. Having seen the hitch vs hitch debate, I still admired his ability to argue his point. It's the WAY he thought I admired, not necessarily his conclusions. His arguments for the Iraq invasion were, I think, quite well made. Wrong, but still decent arguments, and very much in line with his personal disgust for tyranny. I can respect it, while disagreeing.

Um, yes there is a "law against being offended" -- Priti Patel's new "Police Crime Courts & Sentencing Act".

It’s a priti shity law

Section 127 of the Communications Act is that law. It's written so vague that 'grossly offensive' can be anything.

@@ArgentWolf95 i find jazz grossly offensive , some sick people still play it though

Elaborate?

​@@MT-kx2uc Why is he insane? Sean said he occasionally poops out a diamond, now you say he spunks out bollocks, its merely a question.

@@fifab82 Is a fatherless household a great thing in 2022?

He really doesn't live under Christopher's shadow at all. He's a complete different person, his own person, and is at least his equal. They appeal to completely different people.

Thank God, he wasn't corrupted by the americans, as his brother was.

@@curiositycloset2359 An under explored part of CH's life. The inability to say about any part of American life was/is bonkers. Trying to say that the American people like having no life or medical insurance because they "like living ion the edge." No one challenging him. Think he liked being around people who he considered his intellectual inferiors. Like a footballer dropping down a division.

My Sentiments Exactly...

Christopher was late for this interview? Was he meant to be there?

@Dominion Philosophy wtf are you talking about

It is called a restraining order.

The narrative on saving lives you mean?

Care to elaborate on what that narrative might be?

@@andrewcalladine2507 When your policy is simply "saving lives", there is no need to allow dissent, let alone to engage with what dissenters might be saying.

@@eadweard. this is a democracy with Human Rights, dissent is automatically allowed.

Well Parliament is technically all under the control of the monarch. But not really since Parliament calls all the shots.

The monarch swears an oath to the law, so help (them) G-d.

Would you rather they swore alliance to the prime minister or a corrupt politician?

He is the living embodiment of any argument against free speech. " I support free speech". "Of course but have you listened to Peter Hitchens?"......" well....obviously there should be some limits".

Idiotic remark.

I doubt even Hitchens would conflate atheism with tyranny quite so casually as you have though.

RIP Roger Scruton

:'-(

That's not a restriction on freedom of speech. It's simply a consequence of using your free speech to deliberately cause harm. Play with fire get burnt.

Yes, Christopher was in a different class.

@@alisdairmclean8605 he was a dreadful NeoCon and even backed the Iraq bloodbath.

EXACTLY this! It's bizarre.

Maybe he see this as a place where he can cause divide and antagonise. He has played his part in rhe culture wars, as did his brother, and his book grifts never seems to end.

The things he says about weed go against conventional wisdom and fashion - so naturally conventional, fashionable people find them laughable.

I've never got the sense that he 'hates' homosexuals. And he hasn't said anything uninformed about weed; you just smoke the stuff, so don't like anyone saying anything bad about it.