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Book SynopsisHow 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
Trade ReviewThis 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 *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Modern Man 1. The Warrior and The Victim 2. Born Yesterday 3. Class War 4. The Pink Bits 5. Hell Freezes Over 6. The Telescreen Triumphs 7. Forty Years On 8. A Real Bastard 9. The Queen`s English 10. Difficulties with Girls 11. Last Exit to Decency 12. Suburbs of the Mind 13. The Pill That Cured Morality 14. Health Warning 15. Is Britain Civilised 16. Year Zero Conclusion: Chainsaw Massacre
