Peter Hitchens weighs in on China covid protests | Hitchens' Half Hour 28-November-22
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- Peter Hitchens joins Mike Graham for his reaction to this week's biggest stories.
The UK has warned Beijing there was “absolutely no excuse” for a BBC journalist covering protests in China to be “beaten by the police”.
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly on Monday described the incident as “deeply disturbing” and Cabinet colleague Grant Shapps said it was of “considerable concern”, after the BBC said Edward Lawrence was “attacked” in Shanghai.
The broadcaster said the cameraman was “arrested and handcuffed” while covering demonstrations over China’s Covid-19 restrictions, and then “beaten and kicked” by police.
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Why shouldn't Chinese police crack down on protests?
I'm amazed you are asking this question, when you live in what is described as a 'democracy'.
Because human being will always yearn to be free.
Remember what the uk lockdown protesters were called …yeah exactly… reap what you sow
If you were treated like they were, you might get why they are pissed off, keep sleepwalking like most of the population and you very well might.
The difference between Chinese police and ours is only one of degree. There are people criticising them now, who were perfectly happy with our police following people with drones, when they dared to take their one hour a day exercise in the - horror - countryside.
Peter is superb
Communism don’t you just love it 😂
No it’s just authoritarianism similar to Russia or North Korea
"A walk on the wild side" channel yesterday filmed 14+ ambulances queuing outside A+E in Blackpool
Those nurses and NHS staff had their strikes during CONvid, prancing about on empty wards. During the first lockdown I saw them all at my local surgery sat outside on the grass in the sunshine chewing the fat, not even six feet apart.
Convid - love it
My wife didn’t, neither did her colleagues. They had to work longer hours, particularly during absence as a result of Covid infections. She was more at risk from getting Covid - which she eventually got on the ward and I ended up really sick as a result of getting it from her.
And plenty didn't
Well said. I walked past my GP Primary Care Centre every day during Convid and all I was met with were nurses/health care workers sitting under a gazeebo every freaking day. It boiled my P!§§ 😡
Scamdemic
Surprised Hitchens didnt bring up the English Bishop saying Jesus was Transgender. Which is implausible by any book, interpretation or faith within the Abrahamic religions. Like with all things today there is no hope for the overriding orthodoxies that have sold out to the statusquo. This year our bellringing association has taken over a local church for xmas to raise money for the roof, which could turn out to be the most traditional service in the local community. Why? Because its nothing overrun or organised by the Kumbaya brigade.
A lot of the Clergy don't really believe - it's just a job to them.
Do you think the bishop would have the balls to suggest that the Prophet Muhammed was transgender? Watch how this comment gets deleted but the one about Jesus won't.
The irony about believing in God is that if you behave as a believer, say prayers asking God to be present in your life, you can feel His presence fairly often. If you say no prayers, reject the idea of prayer, you'll never believe. -Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me the sinner- The film "Man of God" is good at showcasing these ideas.
I can't help but wonder if God tests us and makes it somewhat harder than that, that if you _do_ choose to embrace Him, he suddenly becomes that much more remote and 'unlikely' . . . 🤷♂️
Modern strikes only hurt patients/travellers/customers as managers of large organisations still get paid. OK, a strike gives them a few more headaches but its largely the general public that suffer.
Not sure that Hitchens is right about church decline....In my experience its the progressive evangelical communities that are in growth...And I see the Anglican...Methodists and other 'dry' denominational structures etc in steep decline.
They’re overworked because the elderly filling up the hospitals are not able to go home because the care staff were sacked.
If you’d have supported them, you certainly wouldn’t have the gall to ask for more money
All 4 main parties sang from the same hymn sheet with the sacking of care staff but they'll never reinstate them or apologise coz that'll be seen as weakness, the MSM have been part of this disgusting fear mongering as well.
As someone whose not been jabbed, worked through it all and not been ill with it (yet) I've felt its been like watching a car crash in slow motion...The furlough money had to be paid back at some point, it was always a question of when.
@@guidomraeno7213 unfortunately for us all it IS being paid back as we speak. We are paying the cost in inflation and higher taxation.
I don't think Peter and Mike are right about Christmas in America. It's a huge 2 month event nowadays.
No he was saying that after Christmas its over and it is, we don’t celebrate on Boxing Day. Starting in November the season starts to creep in and you get Christmas decorations for two months though i agree with you if that was your point. After Christmas Day all that dies fast though
Graham: makes a point
Hitchens: challenges it
Graham: concedes without argument
😂😂😂 backbone of a jelly fish
About to write the same thing. It is so irritating to know that Graham has such an easy job and be paid, (I can imagine) so well for it and not have a single opinion that he will ardently stick with. I'd rather just listen to Peter Hitchens on his own radio programme or have Peter talk with someone who will listen to Hitchens but take him on when he has a different point of view and can give a justifiable reason for that opinion.
This segment is not a debate its a discussion it seems to me.
Let us not forget hunts admiration for the Chinese communist party along with his boss klaus.
Well in all fairness the American do cracking Christmas films considering
Like die hard and die hard 2
I wish the host would stop butting in, he’s like a five year old who’s just quaffed a barrel of sunny delight
Nurses have a duty to assert their opinions on the best interests of the welfare of patients. Pay and conditions represent significant factors as to whether the NHS has motivated staff who are at least not in poverty. Take away their right to strike and you restrict that aspect of their duty to act in the best interests of patients.
I wish Peter would speak up, the sound is bloody awful.
Melbourne was exactly the same
Hi
Mayo
Football is a religion of FANatics, I used to be one.
2 guys talking complete sense
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Kneel ? dont kneel for no-ones agenda !! keep it outta Football
This post has the wrong title
Roger Scruton also went to a grammar school.
Yes -Mr Hitchens , you know nothing about USA soccer It is a hundred times more popular than it was 20 years ago.
Soccer is the most popular sport for women participation. And now in the Major Soccer Leagues in the USA . The Eastern
and Western Conferences . 60,000 or more in the Stadiums are not unusual anymore.
They kick balls
Calm down Barry
He should stay off subjects he knows nothing about
@@charlytaylor1748 like China and Hong Kong
Not only that, but Peter Hitchens totally missed the point that Mike was making about taking the knee, such is his blindness with anything connected with football.The George Floyd incident is what really sparked the 'knee taking' and yet the Yanks didn't do it, nothing to do with whether Americans watch or don't watch football, sorry soccer to them.
Two middle aged, middle class former journalists who make a living sitting on their arses criticising others, giving an opinion on workers rights 🤔 Strange mix of right wing and communist views mashed together to justify workers having no rights at all.
Can you quote the parts where either man tried to justify having no rights at all?
@@goodyeoman4534 The bit where they unanimously decided that nurses should have not have the right to take industrial action. Without that right and without other statutory protections you are effectively saying they have no rights.
@@1574john No no, you specifically said "no rights at all". If it's harmless hyperbole, fair enough. But serious statements require accuracy.
@@goodyeoman4534 If you don’t have the right to withdraw labour you don’t have a mechanism to protect yourself and therefore you have no rights at all.
@@1574john NHS employees have a ton of rights. To suggest otherwise is wilfully blind. I'm in two minds about striking in general, but I definitely don't support them for emergency services.
Still living in his brother's shadow
🥱
Still worshipping your long-dead guru?
@@goodyeoman4534 No, because worshipping and idols were everything Christopher was against. How can you take seriously a man who believes the world is only 3,000 years old and genuinely thinks he has an invisible friend in God beside him? Christopher will go down as one of the greatest polemicists of all time who believed in facts, science and evidence over the supernatural.
@@mitchellgallagher7093 The usual anti-Christian drivel. How tiresome.
And yet here you still are!
Of course nurses should be able to strike. What Hitchens is saying is that Nurses haven’t chosen to sell their labour, but have, by choice, chosen to sacrifice themselves to some falsely noble sense of duty. As Clint said “buzzards got to eat” well, nurses have a right to their happiness and that means not having their pay determined by the BoE monetary policy and the Governments fiscal spending sprees on boondoggles and lockdown payouts. Let them all strike and reveal the truth.
You've missed the point completely. Which is actually quite hard to do.
I always get a chuckle at Peter who presents himself as an Uber logical, facts and data guy believing in fairy tales
You presumably equate God to a fairy?
Would the cook that put your meal together...be a fairy too?
@@IssacharGR there is verifiable evidence for cooks, none for god hence it requires faith.
Just because you don’t understand or we don’t know how we came to be doesn’t mean you get to assert it was god, that just raises the question who “cooked” him?
@@Cornwall1888 The old chicken and egg question? I don't particularly believe in God, but I know I could possibly be wrong, I can't prove there's not a God just as many can't prove there is a God, so I keep quiet on the subject until I know for certain, can you prove there isn't a God by the way?
@@nightowl7459 no, I don’t claim that either
@@Cornwall1888 SO you don't know then.
Ugh! The “Fredo” brother! God I miss Christopher!
“God I miss Christopher!” - is that a deliberate attempt at humour?
100%, comrade. Christopher's retarded brother must have been dropped a lot as a baby.
Stupid fanboy
@@williamdoonan736 Christopher fanboys don't understand irony. They're too starry eyed about their long-dead guru.