Posted on 02/21/2018 5:40:32 PM PST by Nextrush
.....A hallmark of your work is that you despise political violence; why is your prose so combative?
I'm almost always in the position of challenging conventional wisdom. I have to start by getting up, by standing out from everyone else and saying: "I don't accept this". If you haven't got anything particularly new to say, if you're just one of what Bob Dylan memorably called the rat race choir, you can gargle on without ever having to do anything exceptional or make an impression-you're just there. And an awful lot of people in commentary journalism are repeating, what everyone else is saying, and indeed what they've been told by their contacts. But that's no what I do.
I think there is absolute truth, and it can be discovered
(Interviewer) I used the parallel because the best way to avoid violence for you might have been to be as combative as possible on paper.
(Peter Hitchens) Well I strongly believe in an adversarial parliament in this extremely divided country for exactly that reason. If very deep disagreements and discontents in the country are not reflected in its parliament, then the danger of violence in our society is increased. And I'm very worried about the horrible consensual parliament we have at the moment: that is making that danger greater all the time. It's one of the reasons I was so pleased that Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the Labor Party, because it did tend to make Parliament more genuinely adversarial that it had been in some time......
(Excerpt) Read more at journalistsontruth.com ...
He also touches on his Christian beliefs in connection with truth and journalism.
Hitchens talks about a 'consensual parliament' in the UK which sounds like his way of saying what I say about legislative bodies in the USA calling them "Uniparty".
Guess the Brit’s government is just as juvenile, corrupt as ours.
Might not always agreed with Hitchens over the years but have always respected him.
I think I don’t agree with everything he says but he brings something to the table with his writing that helps me understand things better.
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