Mike and acclaimed columnist Peter Hitchens discuss the news of the week, including the heatwave, the climate crisis and Peter's idea for a new show called 'Doctor What?' #talktv #talkradio #mikegraham #peterhitchens
In the United States, the trend for the past 20+ years have been cooler summers, and milder winters. The 1930's were the hottest years in our history, the 1800's were some of the coldest. Weather patterns have always changed, and will continue to do so.
I always feel Peter Hitchens is worth listening to. Clearly the Ukraine war is not as simple as good versus evil but fortunately few of us have ever had to experience foreign troops on our national soil. Frightening and no doubt - calling for desperate measures
People like the 'us and against them' mentality, and if you sell something else as being evil, most people will naturally take the other side, if just to feel good about themselves ostensibly being on the good side against bad. The sad and often ironic thing is, psychological manipulation is quite easy, we live in an age where the woman's 'right to choose' when it comes to murdering an unborn baby, is the noble position to adopt in the minds of the majority of people.
It's a kremlin's narrative "white is not so white and black is not so black, there's an awful lot of grey in between". Just to muddy the waters, distort the thruth, mix up the attribution of blame, blur the lines between an aggressor and his victim. Most people fall for this kgb information-psychological tricks.
02:40 Non-SNP Scottish Academics who are not receiving grants for that reason is not 'childish', it is corruption. Academics who are afraid to call this out is also not 'surprising', it is political repression. This is why Scotland is a one party state. Call it what it is, don't let them hide it.
One party state?! I was asked at least once every day in Glasgow why I , an Englishman, was working in Scotland. After a while my time was up and I took wicked glee at introducing my replacement to those who had endlessly needled me. saying "Here he is, gentleman. Meet Mr Khan!"
Nice to think Peter toasted his bread in front of a fire ....those were the days! I remember the roar of the chimney fire as the chimney soot caught alight,and where have all the chimney sweeps gone...to chimney heaven i guess.
I work for TFL and the shifts do not start when we leave home. If we do a dead early shift, we can get a taxi from our nearest station to work, sometimes arriving an hour early. The same thing happens in reverse for a dead late shift. We don't get picked up/dropped off at our homes and frequently have to change taxis.
How would these people get on if my 65 year old Cambodian wife was to give them a talk covering her experiences as a young woman in Cambodia during Pol Pot!!
Public transport is all well and good in the big cities of the UK, and there's no doubt it is very undeveloped especially compared to how our European neighbours do it - but outside of those areas then it's very difficult to see how such a system could ever be setup to be convenient to most of the public.
Life is about degrees . Hitler was a S.O.A.B. but he loved his dog,now that is a small degree. Hitler bombed London and other capitals and the U.S.A.F. and the R.A.F. bombed the living daylights out of most German cities .....question of degrees you see.
Public transport is no existent outside of a few of the biggest cities. Every time a politician bashes the car, I scream at the screen. I think to myself - are you on another planet? There is no alternative for most people.
As I understand it from environmentally aware people there is an interaction in Australia between freshwater runoff from rivers into oceans and fish breeding. I am curious if people in UK have rainwater tanks.
Interesting format but you can see Graham tries very hard to please Hitchens. He knows Hitchen's stances on a myriad of issues and just keeps throwing him soft ball after soft ball so that the two of them can ramble together about the evils of modernity. That's all very fine and dandy but I believe adopting a more adversarial stance, as per English tradition, would be much more interesting. For instance, it was quite clear Graham and Hitchens were not on the same page when it came to cars. As soon as Graham realised Hitchens was not your average "pro-automobile" right-winger, he quietly retreated and changed his stance to appease Hitchens. I find this to be sightly disappointing and tedious. Don't be afraid of disagreeing with each other, gentlemen!
This is the only time Mike does this, cos he knows he brings in views! Many a times he’s sat discussing things with Peter calmly and as if he agrees, only to then have the same subject brought up by a caller and berate them acting like people are stupid and he isnt. I’ve noticed a lot of these right/left wing journalists like to play to crowds for views but behind closed doors hate us. It’s why I stopped watching and only come back now and again to say this 😂
Also note, that Mike takes a different view on the Ukraine versus Russia conflict(what with being more interventionist) compared to Hitchens. I also think on economics, Mike is probably more liberal than Hitchens is.
Their interactions are interesting: PH over decades has developed powerful techniques against being interrupted or talked over. Mike knows he's class. My impression is that they have quite some respect/tolerance for each other. Which is refreshing. Even listener friendly.
The Indian & Pakistani people use lots of water, when we had Indian or Pakistani crew on board a ship water consumption more than doubled compared to white crew.
Peter's point about the Ukrainian fetishism made me think of Mikhail Bulgakov's 'White Guard'; and how Bulgakov himself was shunned largely because of his far more nuanced characterisation of both sides of the conflict as complex, multivariate, and sometimes brutal. Makes me feel like we stare down the same propagandist lens that he did under the Soviets.
@@expressionofwill5307 he had an incredible life - but Master and Margarita is how I got started too; incredible book. I definitely recommend looking up some of his works. ‘Notes from a Doctor’ was written when he was working as a doctor (and struggling to overcome a drug dependency), and ‘White Guard’ was from close personal experience (takes place in besieged Kiev)
You are both too young to remember as I do..... a label attached to my coat and being sent, unaccompanied by rail, from my boarding school in Wokng to my home in Yorkshire....You might just remember railway porters.
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Peter’s weekly ‘half-hour’ is my 30 minutes of clarity, sanity and common sense. Please never stop doing this programme.
Peter has been in a suspiciously good mood the last few times I've seen/heard him on air
I think he has just accepted the fact that world has gone to pot, and it has freed him.
@@lukewoodley6932 I completely agree 🤣
We have 4 coal fired power stations, the Chinese have one thousand one hundred.
Yes, but we're leading the way in virtue signalling 👍
……..and building another few hundred over the next couple of years !!
In the United States, the trend for the past 20+ years have been cooler summers, and milder winters. The 1930's were the hottest years in our history, the 1800's were some of the coldest. Weather patterns have always changed, and will continue to do so.
It is discussions like this that restore my faith in people
I always feel Peter Hitchens is worth listening to. Clearly the Ukraine war is not as simple as good versus evil but fortunately few of us have ever had to experience foreign troops on our national soil. Frightening and no doubt - calling for desperate measures
It’s a distraction
People like the 'us and against them' mentality, and if you sell something else as being evil, most people will naturally take the other side, if just to feel good about themselves ostensibly being on the good side against bad. The sad and often ironic thing is, psychological manipulation is quite easy, we live in an age where the woman's 'right to choose' when it comes to murdering an unborn baby, is the noble position to adopt in the minds of the majority of people.
Kate Receveur
Can you elaborate on that please?
@@TheNobbynoonar who is Kate?
It's a kremlin's narrative "white is not so white and black is not so black, there's an awful lot of grey in between". Just to muddy the waters, distort the thruth, mix up the attribution of blame, blur the lines between an aggressor and his victim. Most people fall for this kgb information-psychological tricks.
Peter is wonderful considering no human is perfect.
If only we had a Conservative government. Lol
We need to build our OWN parallel institutions.
"Jude the Obscure, full of misery which is why |I like it!
He nearly cracked a smile. Probably rictus.
No we dont, we dont need the institutions at all. We need small government and strong personal morals, thats all.
02:40 Non-SNP Scottish Academics who are not receiving grants for that reason is not 'childish', it is corruption.
Academics who are afraid to call this out is also not 'surprising', it is political repression.
This is why Scotland is a one party state. Call it what it is, don't let them hide it.
One party state?!
I was asked at least once every day in Glasgow why I , an Englishman, was working in Scotland. After a while my time was up and I took wicked glee at introducing my replacement to those who had endlessly needled me. saying "Here he is, gentleman. Meet Mr Khan!"
Nice to think Peter toasted his bread in front of a fire ....those were the days! I remember the roar of the chimney fire as the chimney soot caught alight,and where have all the chimney sweeps gone...to chimney heaven i guess.
I work for TFL and the shifts do not start when we leave home. If we do a dead early shift, we can get a taxi from our nearest station to work, sometimes arriving an hour early. The same thing happens in reverse for a dead late shift. We don't get picked up/dropped off at our homes and frequently have to change taxis.
Mark Steyn and Peter Hitchens are basically upholding - what's left of - the British fourth estate!
It sprinkled for about half an hour this morning in Minehead better claim a major emergency response.
i refuse to support either side in this conflict, both governments are brutal to their political opponents & totally corrupt.
People failing examinations 😂😂😂👏👏👏👏
Re Ukraine I’d advise people to listen to Col Douglas Macgregor
I’ve found he’s straight forward commentary interesting and refreshing
God knows why you "have a lot of time for Zelensky" Peter. He's an actor.
So was Reagan. If you have a point why don’t you make it?
@@turbolevo8703 Reagan was an actor who became a great President , Zelensky was and still is an actor.
Just finished The Return of the Native today. Excellent.
How would these people get on if my 65 year old Cambodian wife was to give them a talk covering her experiences as a young woman in Cambodia during Pol Pot!!
interesting...mail order bride?
Half hour yet it’s 21 mins
It's half hour with the adverts
Peter Hitchens seems unusually cheerful. What is happening?
kevin is one of the few who can manage peter hitchens, sorry mike
*20 mins with Hitchens.
"I don't know where they get the slime in this dry weather"
Public transport is all well and good in the big cities of the UK, and there's no doubt it is very undeveloped especially compared to how our European neighbours do it - but outside of those areas then it's very difficult to see how such a system could ever be setup to be convenient to most of the public.
Had Peter a few bevvies on board? Seems quite mellow
Life is about degrees . Hitler was a S.O.A.B. but he loved his dog,now that is a small degree. Hitler bombed London and other capitals and the U.S.A.F. and the R.A.F. bombed the living daylights out of most German cities .....question of degrees you see.
"People failing examinations"! 😆
H.S.2. will be like the Brabazon out of date at birth.
I've got Thomas Hardy's Complete Works on Kindle (for £1). Will definitely have a look now.
Long periods of drizzle is much better for irrigation etc...
Public transport is no existent outside of a few of the biggest cities. Every time a politician bashes the car, I scream at the screen. I think to myself - are you on another planet? There is no alternative for most people.
As I understand it from environmentally aware people there is an interaction in Australia between freshwater runoff from rivers into oceans and fish breeding.
I am curious if people in UK have rainwater tanks.
NHS wastes a lot of energy with overheated Hospitals.
Love a bit of Police Bunting 🙄
Interesting format but you can see Graham tries very hard to please Hitchens.
He knows Hitchen's stances on a myriad of issues and just keeps throwing him soft ball after soft ball so that the two of them can ramble together about the evils of modernity.
That's all very fine and dandy but I believe adopting a more adversarial stance, as per English tradition, would be much more interesting.
For instance, it was quite clear Graham and Hitchens were not on the same page when it came to cars. As soon as Graham realised Hitchens was not your average "pro-automobile" right-winger, he quietly retreated and changed his stance to appease Hitchens.
I find this to be sightly disappointing and tedious.
Don't be afraid of disagreeing with each other, gentlemen!
This is the only time Mike does this, cos he knows he brings in views! Many a times he’s sat discussing things with Peter calmly and as if he agrees, only to then have the same subject brought up by a caller and berate them acting like people are stupid and he isnt. I’ve noticed a lot of these right/left wing journalists like to play to crowds for views but behind closed doors hate us. It’s why I stopped watching and only come back now and again to say this 😂
Also note, that Mike takes a different view on the Ukraine versus Russia conflict(what with being more interventionist) compared to Hitchens.
I also think on economics, Mike is probably more liberal than Hitchens is.
Their interactions are interesting: PH over decades has developed powerful techniques against being interrupted or talked over. Mike knows he's class. My impression is that they have quite some respect/tolerance for each other. Which is refreshing. Even listener friendly.
Hear hear.
I only go hillwalking when dry rain is falling but I still get wet?
Damn...
I came up with a show called Dr. Where...
what justifies the govt having the privilege to tax? can its actions cause it to lose that privilege?
you get the feelin' that peter hitchens is going to bust out in hysterical uncontrolable laughter at any moment one o' these days don't you.
The Indian & Pakistani people use lots of water, when we had Indian or Pakistani crew on board a ship water consumption more than doubled compared to white crew.
tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent
Build a pipeline from Northern Ireland to mainland we have lots of water.
Tonnes C02 equivalent?
> Half hour
> 21 minutes
Still waiting to hear Hitch express regrets at having had to take "the chab" to travel...maybe he has, and I missed it..
The weather this summer could be caused by the massive eruption of a volcano in Tonga earlier this year.
Only 98 comments ?
Still the best British journo... Peter, not Mike!
Peter's point about the Ukrainian fetishism made me think of Mikhail Bulgakov's 'White Guard'; and how Bulgakov himself was shunned largely because of his far more nuanced characterisation of both sides of the conflict as complex, multivariate, and sometimes brutal.
Makes me feel like we stare down the same propagandist lens that he did under the Soviets.
I don't really know anything about him except that Master and Margarita was one of the funniest books I have read.
@@expressionofwill5307 he had an incredible life - but Master and Margarita is how I got started too; incredible book.
I definitely recommend looking up some of his works. ‘Notes from a Doctor’ was written when he was working as a doctor (and struggling to overcome a drug dependency), and ‘White Guard’ was from close personal experience (takes place in besieged Kiev)
Try living in the rural west of Ireland and you will know what a bad public transport system is.
Nice windy roads tho...
Oh and not forgetting The Wild Atlantic Way...
21 mins is only 70% of a half-hour ...
Please let Peter talk a little more Mike.
the Coppers luv a Crime Scene - it's Instant Archeology - Another Incident to pad the books...for funding and for HISTORY!
They can do one. This is going to, to far now. For crying out loud. I've lost the will to live now.
Oh, a national water grid. Que Scots and Welsh accusing the English stealing all their water.😂
Why don't we contact water aid they will soon have a tap running.
Then the Scots can keep their water
Wish Mike would take up cycling, then he may realise some of the nutters ( Inc bad cyclists) on the roads
SPANISH PRACTICES
You are both too young to remember as I do..... a label attached to my coat and being sent, unaccompanied by rail, from my boarding school in Wokng to my home in Yorkshire....You might just remember railway porters.
Zelensky doesn't get criticism because look where he is from and the cult he belongs
stop fasvism!
Peter is a bit uneducated about the Ukraine conflict . Pity , I thought he was a smart man until now.
Hearing such an accomplished person as Peter Hitchens espouse such total bosh on comprehensive schools and the motor car is sad.
Re Ukraine I’d advise people to listen to Col Douglas Macgregor
I’ve found he’s straight forward commentary interesting and refreshing