Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens (born 28 October 1951) is an award-winning British columnist and author, noted for his traditionalist conservative stance.

Quotes

• Frankly, I could carve a better opposition party out of a banana than the Tories.
  • "Question Time", The Guardian, 14 May 2009 

From 'The Abolition of Britain' (1999)

• In 1965, the people of Britain may have been poorer, smaller, shabbier, dirtier, colder, narrower, more set in their ways, ignorant of olive oil, polenta and - even - lager. But they knew what united them, they shared a complicated web of beliefs, attitudes, prejudices, loyalties and dislikes. (p.23)

• A nation is the sum of its memories, and when those memories are allowed to die, it is less of a nation. (p.35)

• To anyone brought up when English literature, scripture, liturgy, poetry and hymns were still taught and learned, it is astonishing to find out how little they have in common with those who were raised and educated in the post-revolutionary culture. The pre-revolutionary survivor can finish other people's sentences, detect the rhythm in other people's speeches, recognise a score of allusions in a page of print. There is hardly a word or phrase which does not awake a richer thought, or an echo of something hauntingly similar. (p.196)

On Christopher Hitchens

• We're not close. We're different people, we have different lives, we have entirely different pleasures, we live in different continents. If we weren't brothers we wouldn't know each other.
  • "Question Time", The Guardian, 14 May 2009 

External links

• Peter Hitchens' Mail on Sunday blog