Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens       (Journalist, author)
Born	Peter Jonathan Hitchens 1951-10-28 Sliema, Crown Colony of Malta
Nationality	British
Alma mater	The Leys School, University of York
Children	3
Spouse	Eve Ross
Party	International Socialists, Labour Party, Conservative Party

Peter Hitchens (born 28 October 1951) is an English journalist and author. He has published six books, including The Abolition of Britain, The Rage Against God, and The War We Never Fought. He is a frequent critic of political correctness, and describes himself as an Anglican Christian and Burkean conservative, as well as a social democrat.

Journalist

Peter Hitchens writes for The Mail on Sunday and is a former foreign correspondent in Moscow and Washington. He works as a foreign reporter and in 2010 was awarded the Orwell Prize.

"They destroyed Manhattan’s Twin Towers"

On 13 July 2017, in an article entitled "Peter Hitchens Dissects OPCW Anomalies In Report on Chemical Attack in Syria", Hitchens wrote:

What do we actually know about what happened at Khan Sheikhoun? As I have pointed out several times, very little. I summed up the problem here. I reproduce this passage for those who may have missed it the first time:

"Any report which comes from that region is filtered through people who you never see in the film that does get out. I have met men like them on my travels. I would not want to offend them.

"These are the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, alias the Al-Nusra Front, alias Al Qaeda, the Syrian ‘opposition’ which we in the West have been supporting for several years. Yes, that’s right, the people we have been helping are not Liberal Democrats or Girl Guides or Quakers. No, they are the same movement which destroyed Manhattan’s Twin Towers. The only big difference between them and Islamic State is that we drop bombs on Islamic State. And we drop bombs on behalf of Al-Nusra/Al Qaeda.

"I’ve noted here before how these people have publicly kidnapped, killed and even sunk their teeth into the entrails of dead enemies. But in this case, another small detail may make you wonder about what you are being told. In some reports of the alleged atrocity, a supposed ‘British doctor’, Shajul Islam, was quoted or shown on the spot, described as a ‘volunteer treating victims in hospital’. Actually, he shouldn’t really be called a British doctor. He was struck off the British medical register for ‘misconduct’ in March 2016.

"The General Medical Council won’t say why. And in 2012 Shajul Islam was charged with terror offences in a British court. He was accused of imprisoning John Cantlie, a British photographer, and a Dutchman, Jeroen Oerlemans. Both men were held by a militant group in Syria and both were wounded when they tried to escape. Shajul Islam, it was alleged, was among their captors. Shajul Islam’s trial collapsed in 2013, when it was revealed that Mr Cantlie had been abducted once again, and could not give evidence. Mr Oerlemans refused to give evidence for fear that it would further endanger Mr Cantlie. Mr Oerlemans has since been killed in Libya. So the supposedly benevolent medical man at the scene of the alleged atrocity turns out to be a struck-off doctor who was once put on trial for kidnapping."

Opinions

Hitchens is a "most outspoken opponents of the coronavirus lockdown". He headlined a July 4 Daily Mail article We've all turned from normal humans into muzzled masochists!

 

Documents by Peter Hitchens

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:Dropping bombs on behalf of Al Qaeda	article	9 April 2017	Al-Qaeda Islamic State Al-Nusra Front	On Friday morning 7 April 2017 the United States Navy launched 59 cruise missiles on behalf of Al Qaeda
Document:It’s Nato that’s empire-building, not Putin	article	7 March 2015	NATO Russia US Ukraine European Union	Rare honesty, peppered with obligatory obeisances to western official narratives, about Nato empire-building since 1990 from a western mainsteam media journalist.
Document:The great con that ruined Britain	Article	3 April 2016	Craig Murray Christopher Hitchens Margaret Thatcher Theresa May Ronald Reagan Jeremy Corbyn Privatisation Brexit 2016 EU Referendum	Peter Hitchens, the repentant Thatcherite, has second thoughts about privatisation: if it’s all been so beneficial, why do so many of the containers that arrive in British ports, full of expensive imports, leave this country empty?
Document:What is the point of tourists' checks and tests if migrants can just walk into Dover?	article	5 June 2021	Wikileaks Propaganda BBC Syria Freedom Migration Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons UK/Deep state Douma attack Political correctness COVID-19/Lockdown Open borders	A blog post outlining the illogical policy of lockdown measures in the pandemic era, followed by sections about political correctness, and the Douma attack whistleblowers and Wikileaks.

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