I used to think I understood the Blair creature. Now I am not so sure. Was his rebellion against Net Zero a change of mind, or just the result of spending time with oil producers?
In my trade I have long grown used to the way governments lie and get others to lie for them. It is what they do. But I have seldom seen such a cloud of lies as we face now.
It is true that a woman can't have a penis, but it is just as true that Britain, where Parliament is supreme, can't have a Supreme Court. In fact, we jolly well shouldn't have one.
Is Easter disappearing? Will it soon go the way of Whitsun, another once-great Christian holiday now ignored, and replaced by a secular bank holiday on a different date?
How China must laugh at us, as it runs a mighty industrial revolution on its huge coal stocks and builds two new coal-fired power stations almost weekly, as we blow ours up.
Hitchens added that the lack of proper policing has wider societal implications, the most problematic being the encouraging of more serious criminality.