The Abolition of Britain: From Winston Churchill to Theresa May - Softcover

Hitchens, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472959922 ISBN 13: 9781472959928

Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2018

How do you tell that a country has died? In this devastating, pessimistic, though critically-timed revised edition of his classic book, Peter Hitchens describes and regrets the abolition of Britain.

In the years since Peter Hitchens first wrote The Abolition of Britain, he argues, there has been an acceleration in the decay of society and culture. Fewer people read; universities have become less and less free; more churches are closing; language has become more homogenised; the city skyline is emblematic of the triumph of Mammon; the monarchy is merely hanging on and immigration is at an unprecedented and unsustainable level, a fact accepted even by those who first welcomed its growth.

Hitchens, a former revolutionary Marxist, is amazed and amused by the way in which the nominal Conservative Party has now embraced culturally and socially revolutionary ideas, especially about the family, sexual politics and education, which he would have thought ambitious in his days as a 1960s Trotskyist. As he writes, my only concern now is to ensure that others, in some unimaginable future, will be able to find at least one voice which will explain to them how one of the fairest, kindest civilisations ever to have existed on earth ... should in so short a time have wasted its birthright and thrown away its gifts .

Book Description:

'This is a cri de coeur from an honest, intelligent and patriotic Englishman desperately worried about the corruption of this country and the likely effects of its lurch into the clutches of a European.' Spectator

About the Author:

Peter Hitchens is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. He writes for the Mail on Sunday, where he is a columnist and occasional foreign correspondent. He was awarded the 2010 George Orwell Prize for journalism.

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1472959922
• ISBN 13: 9781472959928
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368