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Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens
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Hitchens participating in a debate (2015)
Born Peter Jonathan Hitchens
(1951-10-28) 28 October 1951 (age 65)
Sliema, Crown Colony of Malta
Nationality English
Alma mater University of York
Occupation Journalist, author
Spouse(s) Eve Ross (m. 1983)
Children 3
Relatives Christopher Hitchens (brother)
Website hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk

Peter Jonathan Hitchens (born 28 October 1951) is an English journalist and author. He has published six books, including The Abolition of Britain, The Rage Against God, and The War We Never Fought. He is a frequent critic of "political correctness", and describes himself as an Anglican Christian and Burkean conservative, as well as a social democrat.

Hitchens writes for The Mail on Sunday and is a former foreign correspondent in Moscow and Washington. He works as a foreign reporter and in 2010 was awarded the Orwell Prize.

Peter Hitchens was born in the Crown Colony of Malta, where his father, a career naval officer, was stationed as part of the then Mediterranean Fleet of the Royal Navy. He was educated at the Leys School and the Oxford College of Further Education before being accepted at the University of York, where he studied Philosophy and Politics and was a member of Alcuin College, graduating in 1973. He later commented that he "must have been a severe disappointment" to his parents after making sure he "would never get into Oxbridge" by sabotaging his own education, through actions which included being arrested breaking into a government fall-out shelter in Cambridge.

He was a member of the International Socialists (forerunners of the modern Socialist Workers' Party) from 1969 to 1975 (beginning at age 17), claiming to have been introduced to the organisation by his brother. In 2010 he dismissed the "cruel revolutionary rubbish" he promoted as a member as "poison", but later commented that "it was a reasonable mistake to have made. I'm glad I made it, because unlike people who've been vaccinated against a disease, I've actually had the disease and therefore I'm totally immune from it in a way that a mere vaccination couldn't possibly provide. ... It taught me how to think, in a lot of ways. So I don't regret the experience at all, I think everybody should have it."


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