Christopher Hitchens, Quentin Letts and others interview on UK Parliament (1997)

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An overview of the UK general election between Tony Blair and John Major with journalists Christopher Hitchens, Quentin Letts, Harold Evans, and Joe Klein.
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@ManufacturingIntellect 7 лет назад

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@mtnmann1517 Год назад

😅😅😅😅😅

@kevinetheridge7201 Год назад

Quentin Letts was on the panel to show Americans that not all English men are intellectual giants like Harry Evans and Christopher Hitchens.

@futterkulcha 2 года назад

The term "'new labour' will date like yesterday's newspaper" 😂😂

@lsobrien 8 лет назад

Can't thank you enough for sharing these gems.

@sticksman1979 Год назад

When the UK was relevant.

@iane427 6 лет назад

Quentin Letts was always such a jeremy hunt

@thethinker1005 5 лет назад

Huge thanks for uploading his. Hitchens is genius as usual in this video!

@hejla4524 5 лет назад

Gets it totally wrong about Europe in retrospect (13:13).

@marksomers8126 3 года назад

hej la4 he was ultimately but he did say after Major throwing his lot in with his right wing will lead him to beaten so badly nobody would dare try it again. They did, but it took 19 years.

@horacesinclair1861 Год назад

I've never seen Hitchens stay so quiet

@dewdop 11 месяцев назад

I’d imagine out of respect for the other journalists

@harryantino 3 года назад

Harold Evans had really bought the Blair Kool Aid

@mzaran2995 2 года назад

Nothing has changed in the UK. 25 years. and its all the damn same. wtf.

@billjohnson2081 2 года назад

There's another video with Hitchens on RU-vid about the 1992 American election. Nothing has changed in the US, either. The Western world has reached a state of complete stasis. That probably has something to do with the decline.

@jvtc Год назад

I wish Hitch was around during the Trump era. He’d have shit himself.

@Peter-dr9ch 2 года назад

9/11 really did fuck everything didn’t it. And the past few years both here and the US. Politics is best when it’s boring.

@eoin7658 2 года назад

Quite chilling to hear him talk of living in “uninteresting times”.

@docwhat8370 Год назад

It was good of Harold Evans to summarise the disastrous policies enacted by the Blair govt ahead of time!

@KeithWilliamMacHendry 2 года назад

Well, Blair got a legacy, Iraq. A complete charlatan & will be remembered for just that.

@neilrobson3064 Год назад

Thanks Rupert…..

@MatthewHaydenRE 24 дня назад

The corruption of the Conservatives in the 90s pales in comparison to the bungs New Labour took from businessmen in return for favours.

@neiltheoneill 6 лет назад

A lot of Quentin Letts' points are extremely pertinent in hindsight

@Ukedc259 3 года назад

He missed entirely Harold Evans’ point about the wealth divide between London/South East and the rest of the country. That was the precursor to Brexit and much of the mess we will inherit after Covid - serious mass unemployment and huge pre-existing wealth inequality made worse. Hitchens was wildly wrong about xenophobia though. My god...

@gilbertmacnaughton4763 3 года назад

@@Ukedc259 Letts was also pretty wrong about the Special Relationship - you can characterise the Blair years in many ways, but "not having a close relationship with the US president" isn't one of them...

@MattSingh1 2 года назад

@@Ukedc259 What are you babbling about? Brexit was purely about xenophobia, and it's two partners paroquialism and provincialism. This is addition to the flagrant corruption that stole the referendum and the self-pitying, whining nature of the average Brexit voter.

@Ukedc259 2 года назад

@@MattSingh1 it’s parochialism. Wealth inequality only fuels othering and racism. Poorer workers get; the harder the shift for less of a win, the more they blame people who “aren’t their own”. If you can’t see the link there I’m not sure what to say really.

@neilrobson3064 Год назад

Thanks Nadine

@beatonthedonis Год назад

Quentin Letts is the anti-Hitchens.

@TheKFMProductions 3 года назад

Hitchens was no where near as eloquent talking about British politics as US politics

@MattSingh1 2 года назад

Could you provide a few examples rather just throw out general, unfounded accusation(s)?

@Myndir Год назад

@@MattSingh1 Thinking that the UK was going to become a republic was a low-IQ take.

@Alex-mj5dv Год назад

Because he thought it was drab and dour.. which it is really. Never be boring was his mother’s mantra to him

@maxb88888 Год назад

This is so useful, i think this video proves Hitch would have supported Remain in 2016

@raleghhowes2778 7 месяцев назад

Evans nailed it: New Labour made a lot of substantial changes to the UK in their early years. Now looking back - and by the right at the time - all the talk is the Blairites were all style no substance because they introduced a lot of Clintonesque presentational slickness. But that was only part of it - they also did a lot of actual stuff. It was Iraq that was their downfall.

@ishmael2586 7 месяцев назад

Open the orders too, which hasn't aged well

@andrewsouthgate4108 3 года назад

A great Discussion. It's sad though that they didn't mention the Liberal Democrats who won 46 seats in that election.

@sticksman1979 Год назад

Wow. In 1997 Hitch called out Europhobia that would end up with Brexit 25 years later. He couldn’t have predicted how stupid the voters would be.

@ishmael2586 7 месяцев назад

Hitchens was beyond stupid, let's be honest

@alexmckelvey3768 6 месяцев назад

Uh, dummy, given that Europe produced Napoleon, Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, the circumstances for WWI, etc., 'phobia' isn't entirely appropriate, since the fear of getting caught in European struggles isn't irrational.