Peter Hitchens' Half Hour | 30-May-22
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- Peter Hitchens shares his inimitable take on society's problems.
Has the breakdown in the institution of marriage left children in a lonely, Dickensian hell?
Is it possible to be a monarchist without adoring individuals of the royal family?
Should imperial measurements be revived in the UK?
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In 2019 the number of people getting married fell to the lowest level since records began. What should be done to reverse this trend?
Some sort of magnets...hear me out. When you get to the age of 30, and you aren't married. You have a magnet grafted to your back. Positive for women, negative for men. The first person you fly towards when you step into the street, you have to marry within one week. Laws will have to be made, as well as by-laws to protect drivers who, of course will kill people flying across the street. Just a thought ladies and gentlemen.
Might have had something to do with the inability to get married because of the pandemic and government rules
@@lewismorrison7493 the pandemic wasn't around in 2019.
@@mrwippy3112 true that 😅 no one wants to get married anymore then!
Strange, when people of the same sex can marry, to boost the numbers.
I can visualise metric measurements perfectly well, thank you very much.
The marvelous Peter Hitchens.
I haven´t watched this yet, but Peter please don´t try explaining the difference between a monarchist and a royalist to Mike Graham. He´ll nod his head and pretend to understand and then ask a question that shows he hasn´t got a single word of it.
you can grow concrete
@@lewishamilton9251 , what is this grow concrete about?
Mike Graham is such an unthinking oaf. He is so out of his depth talking to Peter. He just nods his head trying to sound like he is contributing but he has nothing.
@@sr1948 , I was astounded when he said that the general public are more socially conservative now than ever before. What the hell is he talking about?
I cannot stop seeing him as Ralph Wiggam from the Simpsons now !
Peter is an outstanding intellect and a courageous man. I would be so grateful for an opportunity to talk to him for just 15 minutes. I have so many questions. I wish greatly that his mission to educate the west on our failings since the cultural revolution had been more graciously received, but the fact it wasn't is a sign that he is right and I understand why he says he has given up. Few people seem to understand his concerns come from a place of compassion and kindness.
Mike Graham and Peter Hitchens must have a predetermined agreement where Mike asks Peter a question and three-quarters through Peters reply Mike interrupts and starts waffling on totally diverting Peters response!!!
It is the same guy who thinks you can grow concrete
Yes and you must be the person with an head full of concrete!!
@@lawrencegrantham805 ?
I think these debates have just become a bit too cosy - with Mike just nodding along to Peter on everything(although I do think it's odd that he seems to agree with him on the Ukraine versus Russia conflict on this show, but on his other editions then he practically starts spouting "let us take on Putin, defend the West and the Ukrainians, etc.") - he doesn't really challenge him on some things, like he did in the very early editions.
I don't care what precise measurement a cup is or glass. Alot of the time l drink what l feel like when l have left half of what l had poured anyway
You’re right, their initial exchanges back in 2020 were most adversarial. That said, I reckon you can learn more about what someone has to say if they don’t have to spend their entire radio appearance defending themselves. It’s one of the virtues of long form podcasts.
Personally I quite enjoy it being more of a relaxed discussion than a back and forth debate. The viewpoints and ideas are novel enough on certain topics compared to the popular discourse to still make it an interesting listen. I'd normally be inclined to agree with you but I don't think there's any particular shortage of Peter Hitchens being involved in adversarial debate if that's what you're looking for.
I was at a fruit and veg stall last week and they were stating the cost of goods per pound weight. That didn't mean much to me as I'm used to buying goods in kilos/grams.
When decimal currency came in 1d sweets generally became 1p sweets. That's x2.3 overnight inflation, which is a lot of child's pocket money. Even shops which offered two items for a new penny made a third of a p on the transaction. Raging inflation in the 1970s compounded the issue to make 1960s pricing of common items and the 70s equivalent unrecognisable.
Bol’ocks, there was no change, just that the pound was divided into 100 not 240 ... duh!
In La Ciotat, one buys beer by the "pint" (to rhyme with the English word, "print")
Anyone who has every done any construction work will tell you that metric does not divide easily in half- ie, 1/2 of 10= 5, 1/2 of 5 = 2.5 1/2 of 2.5 = 1.25 etc etc.... Whereas, 1/2 of 12 =6, 1/2 of 6 = 3 etc. In the main, Metric makes larger numbers is asier, and smaller units much more fiddly and fractional/decimalised. Either can be converted of course, but that, when the rubber hits the road, is NOT the point. PS never post anything technical from your phone in the rain!
same goes for the refrigeration & a/c industry, it's all imperial.
At my school we learnt that half of 10 is 5. No wonder you are having problems
@@DarrellMartinjustthetonic typo - no problems, ho ho/
@@davidheadonvisualsandsound that might have been a typo, but the issue continues with your calculation of half of 5. In my metric world it is 2.5. You have calculated it at 2.75. I think that whatever system you adopt you may face problems. I don’t want to be rude but you might want to look closer to home to find the real cause if your problems
Also… I dread to think what happens to you when you have to work out half of 3 in the imperial system. I’ll give you a clue… it is not 1.75
In the states im proud to still use the old English measurements!
Good man
@@abb5596 right back at you, my people came from the British isles 200 years ago!
Peter Hitchens being hopeful!
Indeed. Remember where you were when this happened, folks.
1.3 billion on this jubilee
What do they call a Big Mac in Amsterdam? Royal with Cheese!
The metric system connects volume, mass and length quite nicely. 1000 cm^3 has a mass of one kilogram. One millilitre is 1 cm^3 and has a mass of one gram if it's water. These things are a bit beyond this pair. If we didn't use SI units all physics equations would be up the swanny!
Really? Better tell Isaac Newton and reverse the industrial revolution then…
I am going to make a bitcoin with a mickey mouse face on it
My children - teens/early 20s - weigh themselves in stones and pounds and measure their height in feet and inches.
Everyone does that, it's commonplace
Fatherlessness is in large part caused by the undermining of religious marriage. Men are still expected to protect and provide for their families, as they should be. But we live in a society where a woman can decide to renege on her marriage vows and leave whenever she decides, irrevocably fracturing the family, regardless of what her husband thinks about that, and be supported by the state in doing so. This clearly discourages intelligent and considerate men from investing in and sacrificing for women in a way they once would. All to a backdrop of what Peter would describe as the religiosity of "selfism" and we have a society in which children suffer through terribly insecure childhoods and in many cases grow to be troubled adults as a result. There has been no revolutionary movement for men approximating that of feminism for women, the man's role is still to lead the family and be absolutely responsible for the protection and provision, but men are longer given the legal or moral authority to do so. So why take the risk? I would love to get married and live a traditional family life, it's all I've ever considered to be important, but it seems nigh impossible in modern life.
i am part of the demographic cohort in which the females were actively propagandized about the desirability of Thoroughly Modern Millie. So I know a lot of single women who pursued a career and now, are sliding into their 60's with no partner or children. Given their age they may have a surviving elderly aunt or brother but mostly they have no family. They are scared shitless.
They made their bed. Let them lie in them.
It were grand when I were a lad
Jeepers Mike, let the man finish a sentence..
1kg = 2.2 llbs
like hitchens i am a monarchist but lost respect for the queen when she broke her coronation oath. she swore to defend the realm against foreign interference but not a whimper from her when health signed us over to europe. her duty too the realm far outweighs her duty not to interfere in politics.
She made Blair a knight of the garter as well, after hearing that I believe she must have died and they replaced her with a double
Saudi spent their oil money wisely and on their people, they have their culture, i worked there and its probably the safest place on the Planet who are we to condemn any Country.
The destruction of our currency by the europedo traitor Edward Heath was an absolute tragedy. You used to regularly get coins from 100 years ago, featuring Queen Victoria. Just seeing and handling them fired the imagination, thinking of all the places and people they had been through, and kept us linked to our history and identity. All gone now.
Bet you yearn for the reintroduction of the barter system and serfdom for the masses ... 🤔
@@andyxox4168 You are a rootless urban pustule bugman, without history or heritage, living only for the next Marvel movie or Current Thing to give your empty life pseudo-meaning.
A pair of old fannies
So you’re 1.79 cm Mike? 1.69 would make you 5’6 1/2.
Mike, please stop interrupting...and talk less.
2 meters is 6ft
6 foot 6 inches.
During the scamdemic we had to be six feet or two meters away from another person. Given that they are two different things which was it
@@wrichard11 I never saw anything for six feet. It was always two metres.
no it isnt