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Alas Vine & Hitchens

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Episode publication activity over the past year

Last Checked: 2025-10-14 18:51:04

Fly the Flag, Sea Fences, and I Dream of Peter

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode, Peter and Sarah discuss vexillology, or flags for the layman. No...

Nadine Dorries says Boris and Nigel should work together, if their egos allow

06 Sep 2025

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In this exclusive episode, Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens managed to grab lady of the moment Nadine...

Digital IDs, Daddy Issues and Dude, What’s My Car?

03 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode, should we be worried about Keir Starmer’s digital IDs when, according to...

Headscarves, Hijabs and Underperforming Politicians

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode, Sarah wonders if Kier Starmer’s perceived weakness in leadership mi...

Porous Pension Pots and Please Appease Me

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode, Sarah wonders if it’s worth putting into your pension pot anymore as new...

The Not So Great War and Does Counselling Really Work?

13 Aug 2025

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Peter would like to know why Britain slept walk in to the First World War and what our country might...

The Case For and Against Lucy Letby and Rise of the Robots

06 Aug 2025

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In light of the recent documentary, Lucy Letby: Beyond Reasonable Doubt? Peter reiterates his call f...

Nanny State and Made to Measure

30 Jul 2025

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Peter is up in arms – who knew? – over Sarah’s use of centimetres over inches even though she ...

Up In Smoke and I Predict A Riot

23 Jul 2025

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Peter is inflamed! Why, he wants to know, searching around him in vain for an ashtray, does smoking ...

City to City and Walk A Mile In Our Shoes

16 Jul 2025

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Peter has a five-year plan for the five pairs of identical shoes he owns, buy in bulk, rotate dilige...

Terrorism, Extremism and Rubbish Rock Stars

09 Jul 2025

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The love of cinema, Peter’s sonorous baritone, Sarah’s hatred of hot weather, the case for chang...

Going Off the Rails and Too Hot to Handle

02 Jul 2025

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From Lord of the Rings lesser liked characters to the ‘deep state’ of government according to Do...

Abortion Bills and Nuclear Bombs

25 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah and Peter wrangle everything from the latest abortion legislation to how to purge the world of...

Marshmallow Totalitarianism and the Beauty of the Real Iran

18 Jun 2025

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Flared trousers, the fate of Northern Ireland, free speech, swimming with Gordon Brown and childish ...

How Not To Be A Political Wife

11 Jun 2025

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As Sarah’s book sends shockwaves through former political grandees and the corridors of power, Sar...

With Friends Like These… and is Poland the new Ukraine?

04 Jun 2025

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To paraphrase Randy Newman, you’ve got a friend in me, but for just how long? Especially when you’...

The Mental Malaise of Marijuana

28 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As rampage killings are on the rise both here and abroad, we ask if the long-term effects of drugs a...

The Menopause Superpower and some Sibling Rivalry

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Books, plays and films have been written about it, its onset feared in some quarters, pilloried in o...

The Death Penalty and What I Did (or didn't do) On My Holidays

14 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To Peter Hitchens, the idea of capital punishment (at least at home here in the UK) could make for a...

The End of Education and Did We Really Win the War?

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah’s two children are currently at university, which is rather handy as a regular listener has ...

Applying Udder Cream and the End of Civilisation

30 Apr 2025

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Sarah’s brother was at home in Madrid this week when Spain underwent a blackout, alone in the dark...

Turn off your TV and Bloody Taxes

23 Apr 2025

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Not unlike the Rolling Stones, Peter Hitchens is ready to toss his TV through the nearest window. H...

Birmingham’s Bulging Bins and the end of the Toby Carvery Tree

16 Apr 2025

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Sarah Vine wants to bin it off. Though given the decline in public services nationwide, that’s get...

Drinking Swamp Broth and why our Police Forces are Failing Us

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Hitchens hates to be blunt about these things, well, not really, but he’d really like to kno...

Keep Your Enemies Close and Cross My Palm With Silver

02 Apr 2025

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Peter Hitchens puts forward his defence of ‘Whataboutery and asks why does the west delight in att...

Power Corrupted PMs and Peter Hitchens almost meets Prince Charles

26 Mar 2025

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All human life is here.Dogma, closed minds, modern slavery, net zero and why Peter will never enter ...

Does My Bomb Look Big in This?

19 Mar 2025

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To paraphrase Edwin Starr; work, what is it good for, absolutely nothing… At least according to Ge...

Covid Tomatoes, Diplomatic Camels, and Our Kind of Despot

12 Mar 2025

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Lockdown saw Peter Hitchens riding through Hyde Park in a Polish gas mask hissing the word ‘virus’...

Drugs, Depression, Diet, and a Dutch Utopia?

05 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Hitchens is so anti-drugs, and so engaged with his moral compass he won't even consider takin...

Trump, the Rise of Europe’s Far Right and what now for NATO?

26 Feb 2025

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When viewed from above the North Pole, the Earth rotates from left to right and now some of its inha...

Introducing... Alas Vine & Hitchens

18 Feb 2025

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What's the Big Idea?Finally, Sarah Vine (once memorably described as being ‘like and loathed in eq...