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In 1959, according to a novel written that year, tomatoes and toast (with a cup of tea) cost sixpence.

Watch the video; the interviewers were arrogant, uneducated, morons putting on Jamaican accents and insulting him. They didn't make a single coherent point the entire clip, though it was difficult to make out what they were saying at all.

Frankly,I don't know how they were admitted to university at all. I certainly don't know how they managed to get an interview with a respected journalist.

I agree with some of what Hitchens says.

The student didn’t, obviously.

The student did not speak with a Jamaican accent. He wasn’t inarticulate.

He didn’t insult Hitchens. He only expressed disagreement and was, perhaps, trying to bait him.

Hitchens shouldn’t have told them to go to hell.

It was just a simple disagreement between two people.

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LOL. He's been moaning about modern place names on Twitter today - one of his pet peeves:

Beijing -> Peking
Mumbai -> Bombay
etc.

The best time to catch him is during his annual rant about how the clocks are wrong (after the change to BST).


https://mobile.twitter.com/ClarkeMicah

This is now the Peter Hitchens appreciation thread.

I like the old names, too.....but it’s their country’s choice as to what to call a place.

Do you like Kolkata better.....or Calcutta?

I didn't hear the student say anything intelligent, or present any salient research in favour of legalisation apart from "personal freedom" rhetoric. He sounded like a disgruntled child wanting candy before his dinner. That being said, I may not have heard the entire interview.

We now return to our regularly scheduled Interview questions.

Do you think you've remembered nearly all of the personal memories you are capable of recalling?

The student didn’t say anything that was particularly intelligent. That’s true.

It was probably more of irritation for “wasting his time” (on the part of Hitchens) than anything else.

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Definitely not....alas.


What is the appeal of Pokémon ?

Your guess is as good as mine. Even my son had only a passing interest.

Do you count calories?

Never, but I occasionally count grams of carb if I'm doing keto.

same question

I don’t really “count” them—but I read nutrition labels.

Have you had a recent thunderstorm in your area?

I don't know why I assumed there were two interviewers. There were two people (other than Hitchens) in the room, but only one of them said anything, unless I'm mistaken.

If anybody had any doubt about the degradation of standards in our universities, he only needs consider that the intellectually third-rate lout who conducted the interview with Hitchens will have at least a bachelor's degree within a year or two - if not already.

Hitchens wasn't actually at his best here; presumably he was confused by the irregularity of the set-up, and just how stupid his interviewer was.



Yes. That's the impression I got.

Isabella: My memory is pretty poor for everything except words, numbers and facts. And getting worse at an alarming rate.

Kortie: Escape from reality seems to be the appeal. No thunderstorm.

Red: No.

What languages do you speak/read?

Only English and some French.

Do you like to read pre-modern English?

Thanks to Charlotte and Emily Brontë, I can read French quite fluently, and write it marginally well.

I enjoyed PM English as a student, but I don't gravitate to it now.

same q

Not if I can help it.

Which is the virtue you value the most?

I'm very fond of ye olde English.

What's your regret of the day?