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1 week ago | 
thelampmagazine.com | Matthew Walther |J. Vance |Robert Wyllie |Peter Hitchens
The sea used to get into everything in England, though now it doesn’t. We are not really a sea-faring people any more. Even the yearly joy of the ferry to France and back has been abolished, as you can now do the journey in a tunnel, aboard a comfortable train.
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3 weeks ago | 
thelampmagazine.com | J. Vance |Jude Russo |Peter Hitchens |Robert Wyllie
It is a hot June day, and my good friend Mr. Tom Collins is helping me noodle on what might be worth laying out in digital ink for the few, the proud, the loyal regular readers of the Russo Low Life. On the domestic front, things are the usual pleasant shambles. I have just discovered the toddler licking ketchup out of one of those little plastic trays shaped like bottles you get at Chick-fil-A now. (Did they have these when I was a child?
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4 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Peter Hitchens
The amazing thing about modern Britain is what is legal. That is to say, what can you do without anything happening to you? This week it is legal to burgle, to shoplift, to travel on public transport without paying your fare, to smoke marijuana in the street, to fill your tank at a petrol station and drive away without paying. It can’t be long before GBH joins the list. The police, we’re told, have more important things to do. Now we know what sort of things these are.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Peter Hitchens
Meet the Ostrich Class, that great swamp of silly, self-regarding people who decide how we shall live, suffer and quite possibly die. They know nothing about anything but they share the conventional view of what is good, so their inability to think or observe does not matter. By some strange process – such as sharing a flat or a legal chambers with a future Prime Minister, or just being hugely complacent – they rise to positions of great grandeur and importance.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Peter Hitchens
Meet the Ostrich Class, that great swamp of silly, self-regarding people who decide how we shall live, suffer and quite possibly die. They know nothing about anything but they share the conventional view of what is good, so their inability to think or observe does not matter. By some strange process – such as sharing a flat or a legal chambers with a future Prime Minister, or just being hugely complacent – they rise to positions of great grandeur and importance.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Peter Hitchens
Why is there such resistance to the campaign to reopen the case of Lucy Letby, the nurse who has been sentenced to death, in slow motion, for crimes which may not even have happened? I've seldom seen such a potent case for allowing an appeal. A panel of first-rate doctors say there were no crimes. They say her hospital ought to have been shut down because it just wasn't up to the job. Two trials produced no objective evidence that Ms Letby did anything wrong.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Peter Hitchens
When I was a revolutionary student, I and all my comrades wanted more immigration into this country. This was not because we especially liked immigrants. Most students in those days lived far from the areas where migrants tended to settle. It was because we did not much like Britain, and saw mass migration as a good way of changing it. We also very much liked to look down on those who opposed immigration. We thought they were bad people, motivated by bigotry. Since then, I have grown up.
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1 month ago | 
compactmag.com | Clarke Micah |Peter Hitchens
Freedom: Memoirs 1954—2021by Angela MerkelSt. Martin’s Press, 720 pages, $40On a calm, cool September afternoon in 1939, an actual nightmare took solid form on the streets of the handsome town of Brest-Litovsk. I could say that Brest-Litovsk was in Poland, as it had been until that day. But it would not really be true. The town lies in those strange badlands where (if you are not murdered or deported by the latest invader) you may visit several countries in a lifetime without ever leaving home.
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1 month ago | 
unherd.com | Peter Hitchens
capital punishmentCrimeDeath penaltyJean Charles de MenezesPoliceSocietyUK Almost 80 years ago, in 1948, two of the greatest figures of the British Left, Clement Attlee and Ernest Bevin, voted in the House of Commons to retain the death penalty, briefly suspended in a major parliamentary wrangle. Several other Labour ministers joined them, mostly working-class MPs. The event, though beyond doubt, is shocking to record.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Peter Hitchens
The unpleasant stench which rises from the unfair and dubious prosecution of the nurse Lucy Letby grows stronger and fouler by the day. It is as if something horrible was rotting under the national floorboards. It will not go away until the case is reopened and the floorboards are lifted. People will not enjoy finding out what is festering there. But it has to be done. The country cannot be clean until it is done, and Ms Letby gets the fair trial she was, in my view, denied.
