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Rogues and naves / Don’t take Britain’s cathedrals for granted

Everywhere I hear voices complaining about charges being imposed on those who wish to visit our great cathedrals. Everywhere, I reply to them: ‘Stop...

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The Spectator

Peter Hitchens

Don’t take Britain’s cathedrals for granted

Everywhere I hear voices complaining about charges being imposed on those who wish to visit our great cathedrals. Everywhere, I reply to them: ‘Stop...

previous day 10

The Spectator

Peter Hitchens

History lesson / How Prague cured me of my communism

History lesson / How Prague cured me of my communism

Proust can keep his soggy madeleine. For me the word “Prague” is a trigger of memory like no other. It stirs me up like some plaintive half-heard...

30.09.2026 10

The Spectator

Peter Hitchens

History lesson / How Prague cured me of my communism

History lesson / How Prague cured me of my communism

Proust can keep his soggy madeleine. For me the word ‘Prague’ is a trigger of memory like no other. It stirs me up like some plaintive half-heard...

30.09.2026 20

The Spectator

Peter Hitchens

How I became a Canadian nationalist

This is how I became a Canadian nationalist. I did it on the rebound. I never wanted to, and it is a strange experience to find myself pounding the...

24.09.2026 20

The Spectator

Peter Hitchens

How I became a Canadian nationalist

This is how I became a Canadian nationalist. I did it on the rebound. I never wanted to, and it is a strange experience to find myself pounding the...

17.09.2026 30

The Spectator

Peter Hitchens

How Prague cured me of my communism

How Prague cured me of my communism

Proust can keep his soggy madeleine. For me the word ‘Prague’ is a trigger of memory like no other. It stirs me up like some plaintive half-heard...

29.08.2026 30

The Spectator

Peter Hitchens

History lesson / How Prague cured me of my communism

History lesson / How Prague cured me of my communism

Proust can keep his soggy madeleine. For me the word ‘Prague’ is a trigger of memory like no other. It stirs me up like some plaintive half-heard...

27.08.2026 20

The Spectator

Peter Hitchens

Debate / The great whataboutery delusion

If you live near the frontiers of acceptable opinion, as any thinking person must surely do, you quickly find that these badlands are policed mainly...

27.08.2026 10

The Spectator

Peter Hitchens

Debate / The great whataboutery delusion

If you live near the frontiers of acceptable opinion, as any thinking person must surely do, you quickly find that these badlands are policed mainly...

24.08.2026 20

The Spectator

Peter Hitchens

The great whataboutery delusion

If you live near the frontiers of acceptable opinion, as any thinking person must surely do, you quickly find that these badlands are policed mainly...

23.08.2026 30

The Spectator

Peter Hitchens

Debate / The great whataboutery delusion

If you live near the frontiers of acceptable opinion, as any thinking person must surely do, you quickly find that these badlands are policed mainly...

21.08.2026 30

The Spectator

Peter Hitchens

The great whataboutery delusion

If you live near the frontiers of acceptable opinion, as any thinking person must surely do, you quickly find that these badlands are policed mainly...

20.08.2026 20

The Spectator

Peter Hitchens

What Ukraine doesn’t want you to know about the Nord Stream pipeline

If you want to start a myth, make it a good one. Look at Odysseus. Imagine if the old liar had come home stony broke, a decade late, and told his...

24.07.2026 30

The Spectator

Peter Hitchens

Who believes the latest version of the Nord Stream saga?

If you want to start a myth, make it a good one. Look at Odysseus. Imagine if the old liar had come home stony broke, a decade late, and told his...

22.07.2026 40

The Spectator

Peter Hitchens

Anglo-Gaullism is doomed

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24.04.2026 30

New Statesman

Peter Hitchens