Cover of The Abolition of Britain, revised UK edition
Author
Peter Hitchens
Country
United Kingdom
Subject
Politics of the United Kingdom
Genre
Non-fiction
Publisher
Quartet Books
Publication date
1 August 1999
Pages
362
ISBN
0-7043-8117-6
Followed by
Monday Morning Blues
The Abolition of Britain: From Lady Chatterley to Tony Blair (reissued in 2018 with the subtitle From Winston Churchill to Theresa May; US subtitle: From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana) is the first book by British conservative journalist Peter Hitchens, published in 1999. It examines a period of perceived moral and cultural reform between the 1960s and New Labour's 1997 general election win. Hitchens asserts that the reforms facilitated vast and radical constitutional change under Tony Blair's new government that amounted to a "slow motion coup d'état".[1] The book was cited by Gillian Bowditch in The Times as being a major modern work to dissect "the decline in British morals and manners over the past 50 years",[2] and identified by Andrew Marr in The Observer as "the most sustained, internally logical and powerful attack on Tony Blair and all his works".[3]
Hitchens's later book The Broken Compass explored the same themes, applied to socio-political events and culture in the 2000s decade.
^Hitchens 2000, p. 343
^Gillian Bowditch: Why we all miss the kind, strong male
^1999 Andrew Marr review of The Abolition of Britain
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