'Do you seriously think if drugs are decriminalised fewer people would use them?' A must watch debate between Peter Hitchens and David Badcock, CEO of Drug Science, on whether drugs should be legalised in the UK. | GB News

Matthew Perry debates addiction with Peter Hitchens. From the #Newsnight archive | BBC Newsnight

Peter Hitchens says Russia is a “hugely” diminished country, which has given up hundreds of thousands of square miles in Central Europe and Central Asia. Speaking to talkRADIO’s Mike Graham the columnist said: “The policy of the German nations in Central Europe since the end of the 19th century was to try and destabilise Russian rule in the Ukraine…certainly the European Union in my view has been the continuation of Germany by others means.” | TalkTVUK

Peter Hitchens joins Mike Graham for his weekly news round-up (part one). | TalkTVUK

Journalist Peter Hitchens tells Mike Graham that the coronavirus lockdown is not sustainable "for very much longer. People have put up with it... but there is a limit. If the government don't act there will be a unilateral undermining of the lockdown." He says there does not seem to be any action from any government in the world that has materially altered the numbers of deaths and infections. Peter says until there is a general debate on whether the government's policy approach is correct or no

“People don’t even know where their ideas come from...I do, and it’s really frustrating to sit on the edge of it saying, look, you’re quite wrong, don’t be ridiculous.” Author and journalist, Peter Hitchens says Keir Starmer's “radical” left-wing roots demonstrates the public “aren’t actually interested in actual politics.” #TimesRadio | Times Radio

Writer Peter Hitchens dismisses government efforts to use extensive testing to bring down coronavirus numbers. "Testing has always been a bizarre fetish. The idea that you could ever conceivably develop a bureaucracy and a surveillance system efficient enough to track down every contact and to isolate every person who's reproducing the infection was absurd in the first place." | TalkTVUK

Peter Hitchens joins Kevin O'Sullivan to discuss the biggest stories of the week in Hitchens Half Hour. | TalkTVUK