#Hitchens

Reece Hayes

reecewhayes

About half way through this and it's essential listening if you want to better understand radicalisation from YouTube, the rise of the far right and how pernicious this whole thing

Dinesh D'Souza

DineshDSouza

Okay, I'm not going to get into the transgender thing. But a good starting place to understand Michelle Obama is to read her Princeton thesis #RealHistoryatHome https://twitter.com/msdph3/status/1261018797827395584 To quote Christopher

Stephen Wigmore

stephen_wigmore

He didn't just support the Iraq War, he relished it, applauded it, wrote books defending it.He seemed to fantasise about fighting and killing, describing his "exhilaration" after 9/11 and "Osama

Foe To Princes 🐰

ifthedevilisix

So, I'm currently enrolled in (and have begun) a Holocaust history course taught by Professor Havi Dreifuss, head of the Center for Research on the Holocaust in Poland at Yad

mikkker

mikkkkre

A lot of the discourse about 'no rallies' makes less sense outside of America where the state is also an Empire with basically guaranteed monopoly of violence. I think the

Matthew "Call Me Swishmale" Greenfield

MatthewGreenf11

I'm a fucking bog cleaner from Bristol. My main job is cleaning toilets. I don't expect people to seek me out for my views on art or literature. But it

Julian Sanchez

normative

What if... both of those things are true?https://twitter.com/pewresearch/status/1391060839051010049 I guess given a choice I’d pick “be careful...” because I’d rather focus on the thing I can control. But it’s a

Claire Fox

Fox_Claire

Just a short thread on students following Rhodes statue's fall and grim harassment of Hitchens: don't blame student activists; they are kicking an open door. It's acquiescence of university authorities

Shaun Lawson

shaunjlawson

Shortly after completing his dictionary, Dr Samuel Johnson was visited by a delegation of London's "respectable womanhood". They said: "Dr, we congratulate you on your exclusion of all indecent words".

Charlie Peters

CDP1882

I've seen plenty of tweets recently from conservatives who fear we are heading to a US-style culture war, warning that we should not get involved. Some argue that if the

Carlos Osweda

COsweda

Thread@realDonaldTrump is proved right again.Peter Hitchens--the late Christopher's brother--says that a lockdown is unnecessary to stop the spread of COVID-19.He's adamant. You can watch the video later is you want.https://www.youtube.com/wa

Ruchir Sharma

ruchirsharma_1

"Mother Theresa was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the

Rich

RockboltG

*peeps head around Twitter-door*Oh, the notifications have gone quiet after the swarm of Peter Hitchens fanboys moved on. Excellent. Wonder what statistical abuses Twitter will have moved on to now...Journalists:

Sai Deepak J

jsaideepak

1. If Hindutva is Hinduism that resists, well, it includes resisting the caricaturing of our Deities by Abrahamics, atheists or otherwise, & non-Abrahamics, atheists or otherwise. Given d history of

The Distributist

DataDistribute

So this is a summary of the core right-wing critique of the "New Atheists".In short, my motivating question will be: "what element of meta-politics did Hitchens miss (and Dawkins continues

The Secret Barrister

BarristerSecret

Not the first time I’ve heard this theory, but good to see it getting some serious debate among Labour members. I will pay one thousand of your English pounds to