 Cover of The Abolition of Britain, revised UK edition | |
| Author | Peter Hitchens |
|---|---|
| Subject | Politics of the United Kingdom |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Quartet Books |
Publication date | 1 August 1999 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| 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[dead link]
- ^ 1999 Andrew Marr review of The Abolition of Britain