This says that its authority includes: 7) calling elections of the President of Ukraine, It says the Radas authority includes 10) removing the President of Ukraine from office under a special procedure (impeachment) as provided for in Article 111 of this Constitution; (note the reference to Article 111 and no other). This principle is obviously expressed in Hitler's extermination programmes and concentration camps. I think this is more important than Mr Johnsons parties. They are almost exactly the same people who created the Iraq war out of nothing, who got the West into the Afghanistan quagmire - and who backed Islamist fanatics in Syria who were the sort of people they would have arrested in Chicago. , Neo-conservatism Social conservatism, as I understand it, is about supporting, or refraining from attacking, the married family and private life. The pre-1960s British Labour Party, full of Methodism and Temperance supporters, was in fact a combination of social conservatism and social democracy, with its official Clause Four utopianism pushed to the margins of action for most of the time. The conclusions and proposals of the temporary investigatory commission (which do not exist as there was no such commission) are considered at a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (which did not take place., as it had no such conclusions to consider) . But it does so largely because the enthusiastic adoption of Eugenics by the Nazis discredited what had until then been a favourite progressive cause. I can tell you most of this because I spent seven gripping years, from 1977 to 1984, writing about . The KPD was decapitated, with 2,500 members murdered and 130,000 thrown into camps by Hitler (and the larger SPD also suffered similarly) . Categories: 'Special Relationship' That is why I was so filled with anger when the Bank of England began printing money through Quantitative Easing, a trick which imposed harsh inflation on savers without spreading into general prices. And in the century to come will the young be unimpressed by the noisy, messy false liberation of their elders by porn, abortion and cohabitation without commitment? Instead, MPs were simply instructed to sack Yanukovych. PH: This is a baffling non-parallel. Both the KPD and the NSDAP were often more hostile to the Weimar Republic than they were to each other a position echoed later by the 1939-1941 alliance of the USSR and Nazi Germany against the democracies. Yet it turns out that his allegedly dim and uncultured parents (his father was a successful builder) used much of their wealth to give him an expensive private education - not to mention lessons in the piano and art, and his own account to let him buy what he liked at Melbournes leading bookshop. Rishi Sunak is not Margaret Thatcher. Article 110, as we have seen, has a specific and limited application. , Trotskyism , USA And the German left was exterminated. Im not sure that PONARS - an organisation associated, via Celeste Wallander, with the Pentagon, and also with the US-Russia Foundation, can be seen as a wholly dispassionate observer on the matter. The parade was not, as Professor Burgis mistakenly says, held when the pact was signed but almost exactly a month later when Poland had been finished off by both Soviet and German armies in alliance. But that is another argument. If you think he is just a charming survival from our ancient woodland past, then read Kingsley Amiss brilliant, gripping novel The Green Man, in which such a figure is brought to life. Ruthlessness breeds cynicism. Marriage was for life. PH: ***It certainly had those elements, most of which were also present in Soviet schooling, though I would say in both cases that it was nationalism and not patriotism. ****PH Is this so? But what did for him was inflation. Thus the operative article is not and cannot have been, as you state, Article 110. It is that all ideas must be argued on their merits, and that all attempts to establish guilt by association should be regarded with suspicion. I can hardly see how we can avoid this. Politicians rode them. Well, that is just tough. , Marriage How would the people of this country gain by such events? Wasnt their ghastly utopia of a racially-pure, eugenically-purged Germany precisely an attempt to create a new Aryan type of Man? The model for social conservatism in modern Europe is surely Roman Catholic social teaching, originating in Christian morality rather than in 20th century industrial class war. If you take the forest path up from the pretty university town of Heidelberg, you will find, half lost among the trees, a large, disused Nazi amphitheatre where the students used to hold torchlight rallies and sing their hateful songs. God rest the soul of Barry Humphries, and my condolences to his family and close friends. Even then, the vote did not reach the required majority: 328 of 447 MPs (73%) voted to remove Yanukovych from the presidency on the grounds that he was unable to fulfil his responsibilities, even though an hour earlier on TV Yanukovych had insisted that he would not resign and at that point had not left the country. It is on more than one occasion actually inaccurate. You cannot just ignore the rules when it suits you. Sir Ian Kershaw, in his biography of Hitler, notes that the destitute future fuhrer, in pre-1914 Vienna, admired the *organisation* of the Austrian Social Democrats. | Permalink, This is Peter Hitchenss Mail on Sunday column. But removing the mask policy in phase two did not produce a statistically significant change in the hospital-acquired Covid infection rate. If you cant obey it, then you must either accept it or choose lawlessness. I know that in this case the Nazis had large voluntary support among idealistic students.****. And that is why I think Barry Humphries got such a big send-off from the media classes who feel much the same way. It came in the form of Vasile Culea. , Elections This was the most important death since that of Winston Churchill in 1965 which was marked by a great triumph worthy of the Roman Empire and ending with crowds lining the railway tracks as he was carried home on a steam train to the heart of the countryside of the nation he saved. ***PH remarks. This assertion is highly contentious and makes our monarch look silly and ill-informed. Alas, a large part of it is spent in Paris care homes for the elderly and demented, who are just the same there as here. I expect that all she did to deserve this was to get him to tidy his bedroom. It was nice to pretend that somewhere they managed these things better. ***PH. Professor Burgis : And even when we turn from the policies of the Nazi regime to the beliefs of those high-ranking Nazis who preferred Vlkisch paganism to Christianity, its hard to see what this has to do with the Nazis being very left-wing. Historically, various socialist and communist governments have taken attitudes toward religion ranging from disastrous attempts to impose atheism to a sensible adherence to the separation between church and state but Ive never heard of one that wanted to replace Christianity with the worship of Odin. I prefer to use words which are in some way measurable. While I think that some left-wing socialists are wrongly accused of anti-Semitism, and that anti-Zionism is not *necessarily* a cover for anti-Semitism, I think that it sometimes is. Dont make me laugh by telling me these things are restricted to safe speed limits. ', Here again we see how Utopianism, the belief in human perfectibility, is a key division in thought, perhaps, The modern left disowns Eugenics. Note that the original NSDAP programme, while fundamentally racially based, also expressed a vague rage towards profiteers, urged confiscation of war profits, called for improved old-age pensions, land reform and land expropriation, and , rather startlingly, for the creation of a healthy middle class. But it was a close-run thing. The lazy clich was untrue. To conduct the investigation, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine establishes a special temporary investigatory commission (none was established) which composition includes a special prosecutor and special investigators (who were not appointed). It leaves out things he cannot cope with. Everyone knows how to tweak them. Not otherwise, I agree, but then you wont come within ten thousand miles of swimming, if you wont get into the pool. PETER HITCHENS: We have always had murderers - but now something far more cruel is in our midst. The decision on the removal of the President of Ukraine from office by the procedure of impeachment is adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, I note that Ms Popova dispenses with constitutional propriety by stating, However, the Ukrainian Constitutional Court has been highly politically dependent and its credibility has been low. Whatever they might have ruled after Yanukovychs departure, would have lacked legitimacy., She then rules, from her quasi-judicial chair The solution that took place within the Rada was more legitimate than any strictly legal solution that could have come from the Constitutional Court. First of all, what interest does the United Kingdom have in continuing and sustaining this war? The procedures set out had not been undertaken. Who would swap the warmth and comfort of a car for a battery-powered tin tray bouncing and leaping among the potholes on tiny wheels, unprotected from collisions, wind or rain? I doubt this will have much effect, alas, and, here, as usual, we shall have many years to regret another stupid, irreversible mistake. A powerful faction in Washington DC, with supporters in the West Wing of the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department and the CIA,have long wanted a proxy war with Russia. But it does make it absurd to deny that Adolf Hitler belonged to the extreme right. I prefer not to quote it here.***. They are seeking to use the war to hasten the advance towards fascism in Britain and France. The Ukrainian constitution, under which he and the Rada were elected, prescribes the precise conditions under which this vote could be overturned lawfully. Even so, I could grant Hitchens that imposing ideological indoctrination would be evidence of leftism ifthe ideology students were being indoctrinated into was left-wing. A lawyers wife complained to him, Every evening my two children are taken over by the Party.. , Atheism It all ended on February 22 with what was left of Ukraines Parliament endorsing the putsch. Categories: Cannabis I do so below, interleaving my responses in black with his original article. And the German left was exterminateden masse. The other is a recollection of Tom Lehrers satirical and prescient song The Old Dope Peddler, which includes the lines Ev'ry evening you will find him/ Around our neighbourhood./ It's the old dope peddler/ Doing well by doing good/. Before modern welfare states became general, socialist parties provided their supporters with a society in miniature, meetings, clubs, songs, rallies etc. And hoping for a dose of Paris Spring sunshine I went to see thew new film One Fine Morning, starring Lea Seydoux. They plead as an excuse that this has been the wettest March for 40 years. It was obvious that something had gone badly wrong at the funeral of the late Duke of Edinburgh, when the Queens Majesty was compelled by our Government of National Panic to sit alone with half her face concealed by a mask, which I must describe as probably useless. In fact, I thought that the Gary Lineker comparison, between what the Tory government are saying now and what was said in Germany in the 1930s, was an attempt to suggest the existence of exactly that ineluctable spectrum from migratipon control to death camp. As Ive noted above, official disapproval of homosexuality marched in step in both Stalins state and Hitlers. But in a long life in which I have spent a lot of time far from the suburbs, and even further from respectability, I have reached after much painful experience - the opposite conclusion. Has the Professor not read On the Jewish Question ? . Under those circumstances, *** No doubt there were such cases as Professor Burgis mentions. Can you begin to imagine what that would involve? The Bolsheviks, whose active and practical hatred of Christianity I discuss at length in my book The Rage Against God, had similar passions, as (with increasing lack of restraint) do todays Chinese Communists. Im quite happy to believe the claims of one of his obituaries that he had a scholars knowledge of the literature of the 1890s and was able to describe in detail the bibliographical anomalies in Swinburnes juvenilia. It is still a highly readable and pertinent work, describing a control of youth, and a destruction of parental and Christian authority, through school and youth movements almost identical to that in Communist regimes. , USSR Stalin, Alexander Dubcek, Mao tse Tung, Clement Attlee, Olof Palme, Harold Wilson, Helmut Schmidt, Willi Brandt, Anthony Blair, Keir Starmer and many others have valid claims to be called socialist, but a dictionary definition which encompassed them all without a great deal of vagueness and even contradiction would be hard to find. Millions (including me) would have stood by the line had the Royal Train been used to carry the Queen back from Scotland to London, or from London to Windsor or (preferably) both. Writing in anopen letterto Amis published in theGuardian, Christopher Hitchens pointed out that this attempted syllogism would suggest that, for example, many of the hard left types who worked with Martin Luther King Jr were the moral equivalent of Nazis. This is the *only* point I made about the Nazis and tax, quoting Rougemont. No amount of quiet campaigning by officers of his generation ever fixed that. Yet the Professor imagines that such a diabolical pact can be forged over several months, signed, celebrated with many toasts, reinforced by an officila vjsit by Molotov to nazi Berlin, guards of honour and all, and then maintained for nearly two years, without in any way affecting our judgement of the permanent inner natures of the two parties involved.