Talk:Peter Hitchens

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[edit] Pet peeves

Sorry to be so heavy-handed on the citations front, but some of these really do need some evidence - and much as Pete's a bit of an arse, I don't like the idea of accusing him of various things on that basis. I realise that some of them back each other up, in which case why keep the redundancies? Webbtje (talk) 11:29, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

My issue is more around the "Content Creep" aspects, i.e., calling it "pet peeves" when he may have only mentioned it the once - we know Richard Littlejohn is obsessed with gays, for instance. But I can't recall anything from Peter Hitchens that he's that obsessed with, apart from Leo Blair during the MMR hoax. The list is fairly extensive and single words with a fact-tag can probably get removed, a "pet peeves" thing should be a fairly short list of things that occur very regularly. Scarlet A.pngpathetic 12:50, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Sorry to resurrect an old discussion, but when I saw the article I assumed the long list was actually the point -- given that one of Peter Hitchens' defining characteristics is that he seems to treat absolutely everything as a pet peeve --Lord Shang (talk) 23:33, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Opening Sentence

Peter Hitchens has never written anything for the Daily Mail. — Unsigned, by: Elliottstv / talk / contribs

Really now? Lord Goonie Hooray! I'm helping! 16:55, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Wow. The word "cult" appears three times in this article.

Everything is now a cult. Everything. No but seriously referring to ADHD and "belief in dyslexia" as a "cult" is so silly there should totally be a section about cults. Even if those were the only four things he's referred to as such. (I was seriously expecting the last paragraph of the Core Beliefs section to say something about homosexuality as a cult.)--Duth Olec (talk) 17:02, 8 July 2011 (UTC)


[edit] Useless article

It appears that every misrepresentation of Peter Hitchens that has ever been made has been assembled in one place. For more accurate information I would recommend consulting the wikipedia article, or even looking at some of the articles he's written and see how badly written this page is.

I don't know if this is intended to be a serious website, but if this article is any indication then the answer is obviously no. — Unsigned, by: 96.42.45.62 / talk / contribs

Thank you for your contribution. Reckless Noise Symphony (talk) 07:59, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
You are welcome.— Unsigned, by: 96.42.45.62 / talk / contribs

[edit] An Opportunity

I won't be here long, so if you'd like to bury my contributions under the sand that's fine with me. But on the off-chance that any of the contributors here are people of integrity who don't believe in spreading misrepresentation, I'd like to offer you an opportunity to make this site appear fractionally less ridiculous. When you link to an article in which the author is clearly saying one thing, and then represent him here as saying something completely different (I allude to the Mail on Sunday article of 15 February 2008, in which Hitchens attacks the idea that women should be shamed away from raising children at home - clearly not the same thing as an argument that their "place is in the home"), it would probably be a better idea for you to not actually put the link up, as doing so may result in someone clicking on it to see what was actually written. The mischaracterisation of Hitchens' comments on the rape issue follow similar lines. 96.42.45.62 (talk) 08:26, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Super cool story, Bro. --Revolverman (talk) 08:27, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Disgraceful story, actually. 96.42.45.62 (talk) 09:19, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
The last paragraph of the Mail on Sunday piece would seem to cross the line into attacking the idea of not staying in the home. Peter mqzp 08:29, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Not really. I'd suggest taking a closer look at it. In the article, he gives examples of the banal, uninspiring work that many people, men and women, do in modern workplaces, and he attacks the idea those those jobs are necessarily more useful or more fulfulling to women than child-rearing. To characterize the article as him as saying "a woman's place is in the home" is flatly false. 96.42.45.62 (talk) 08:55, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

[edit] Watching this bloke on telly now

And what a depressing prick. Scherben (talk) 23:13, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

[edit] I love me a bit of Hitchens

He's a great politician and his stance on the Iraq war makes him a good guy in my eyes. He supports Israel as a state but not militarily, criticizing the Gaza offensive. --AlanA (talk) 23:30, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

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