Peter Hitchens

Have government and the mainstream media gone too far in amplifying the risks and dangers to public health over Coronavirus?

UK columnist Peter Hitchens is criticising the ‘re-locking down’ of the city of Leicester after a supposed ‘spike’ in Covid-19 cases. But is this based on a credibly threat to public health?

“Having frightened the country stiff at the beginning, the government feels the danger that its power will drain away If it doesn’t keep the fear up.”

As the COVID-19 crisis continues to abate, rather than relax draconian ‘lockdown’ measures, certain governments like the UK and France are choosing instead to carry on with the systematic implosion of their economies and societies. This is certainly a puzzling state of affairs and highly counter intuitive, especially considering the fact the other non-lockdown countries like Sweden have already come through the crisis with minimal casualties.

Talk Radio host Mike Graham speaks to journalist and author Peter Hitchens for round four of their now seemingly weekly clash over coronavirus and the effects of lockdown. Peter Hitchens says, “the country has simultaneously been having a heart attack and a stroke during lockdown” as he expresses concerns over long term economic damage already done as a result of lockdown policy. Seems now that government actions were akin to derailing a speeding train to save one person stood on the line.

As 21WIRE has pointed out many
times previously, Lockdown governments are now faced with the horrific conundrum of not being able to exit their own fatal policy decisions.

Since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, a number of independent publications and journalists have come under attack from corporate and state-run media outlets and their pundits defending risky government ‘lockdown’ policies and the suspension of civil liberties. However, as the tide begins to turn and governments’ lockdown logic rapidly erodes, these dissenting voices are now being vindicated.

History is replete with examples of ill-considered overreactions by the state in times of war and crisis. Has the UK government’s course of action to actually undermined its own stated goals? In the case of the coronavirus outbreak, we’re told it’s all about ‘saving lives,’ but will their actions cost more lives than it supposedly saves?
John Anderson Show says…

In western politics, the political Left has traditionally seen itself as more progressive and has staked universal claim to the  moral high ground on virtually all social and economic issues. But where does this veneer of moral superiority emanate from? What happens when the emotional and seemingly morally superior argument has to give way to apragmatic considerations?

Western fearmongering regarding all things Russian has graduated from a politically expedient tool – to a full-blown obsession. Can the West overcome this propaganda-induced collective psychosis, particularly in the US and its NATO member states?

British journalist and historian Peter Hitchens holds court at the Oxford Debate Union in 2015, and lays out a most damning indictment of the epic political fraud which was New Labour, and the criminal exploits of its leader, former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, who remains at large. Watch: