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Peter Hitchens is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. He witnessed most of the final scenes of the Cold War, and was a resident correspondent in the Soviet capital and in Washington DC. He frequently revisits both Russia and the USA. He currently writes for the Mail on Sunday, where he is a columnist and occasional foreign correspondent, reporting most recently from Iran, North Korea, Burma, The Congo and China.
Peter Hitches will be a guest on BBC Radio 4's Start the week , promoting his book The bookseller, 8 May 2009 Reviewed in Standpoint, 1 May 2009 -- Douglas Murray Extract from the book by Peter Hitchens in The Mail on Sunday, 12 April 2009 There are sincere ethical objections to social and foreign policy throughout ... [these are] convincing - Metro (Midlands, North East, North West, Yorkshire) -- Robert Murphy Hitchens ... never seeks to conceal the dramatic nature of his own ideological odyssey ... Today, famously, he is a fully fledged flail of the left, though interestingly this has not led to any great devotion to the Tory cause, least of all as represented by the emollient David Cameron. If there is one thing that can be counted on from the reconstructed Hitchens, it is his eagerness to go tooth and nail for political timidity wherever he detects it and, in his view, compassionate Conservatism is every bit as vulnerable in this respect as was New Labour back in 1997. He writes with much of the verve and brio of his elder brother and with a greater regard for detail and accuracy. -- Anthony Howard, New Statesman 'Treated as a piece of satire ... The Broken Compass can be an entertaining read.' - Morning Star Hitchens is an entertaining character, both on TV and in print, and this book is no exception - Morning Star -- Steve Mather The Broken Compass, which has received less attention in the conservative press than it deserves, mixes Hitchens's analysis of modern British politics - and the lack of any small-c conservative party - with his own memoirs as an industrial and foreign correspondent. -- Ed West, The Catholic Herald No plaudits can be too great for the predominant clear-sightedness, the historical sense, and the ethical force which Mr. Hitchens has brought to surveying what an earlier, and far inferior, scribe (now dead) called the anatomy of Britain . The Broken Compass ... will be remembered with esteem long after the uncouth rants of Mr. Hitchens's odious elder sibling Christopher have ceased to hold any but neurological interest. -- The Remnant A controversial and fascinating book ... could not put it down, it gave me plenty of food for thought. I enjoyed it tremendously and highly recommend it. -- BFKbooks Review in Tribune Author article, book mention, The Daily Mail. Sunday, 10 May 2009. Mention, The Bookseller. 29 May 2009. Hitchens is in general exhilaratingly good when attacking the hypocrisies and stupidities of specific individuals ... The best parts of the book are the vivid (and self-ironical) scenes of foreign reporting. -- Steven Poole, The Guardian Mention, Private Eye. 1 - 14 May 2009. Hitchens can be terrific. -- Peter Wilby, The Observer This book has some passages of quite brilliant writing and it is at its best when Peter reflects on his own life and his disillusionment with the left-wing ideology of his youth. I long to see him take the next stage in his writer's journey and examine, with his unsparing honesty, the rich human reality of the division he believes is now more important than the split between Left and Right - the deeper gulf between the restless progressive and the Christian pessimist. -- Michael Gove, The Times mention in Londoner's diary, 15 May 2009 * Evening Standard *
