The Abolition of Britain: From Winston Churchill to Theresa May

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.

The Decline of Society and Culture

In the years since Peter Hitchens first wrote The Abolition of Britain, he argues there has been an alarming 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 symbolizes the triumph of Mammon
• The monarchy is merely hanging on
• Immigration has reached unprecedented and unsustainable levels, a fact even acknowledged by those who initially welcomed its growth

A Conservative Party Embracing Revolution

Hitchens, a former revolutionary Marxist, expresses amazement and amusement at how the nominal Conservative Party has embraced culturally and socially revolutionary ideas. These include shifts in:

• Family values
• Sexual politics
• Education

He notes that such ideas would have seemed ambitious even during his days as a 1960s Trotskyist.

A Voice for the Future

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."