Peter Hitchens
speaker
821 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Sep
Peter Hitchens’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Some of the initial reviews of it, although uncomplimentary, accepted that something serious was being said.
In general, it was very hard to get it published.
I had struggled very hard to get it published.
Most publishers refused to have anything to do with me.
And a major agent who I approached wouldn't touch me, let alone the book.
And eventually, I got it published.
And actually, I published it so small that my family had to do all the work of getting into bookshops.
And it ended up, it still sells even now.
What is it?
seven years later, but it was a real struggle to get it out.
But some of the reviews understood that something was being said, and I thought, wow.
And I did begin to get a certain amount of opportunity in broadcasting.
At one point, Channel 4 let me make documentaries, and I would get on the big opinion programmes, and I thought there is some point at which there might be a...
The sprockets of what I think and of what is talked about in politics will mesh with each other and will get somewhere.
And then it became more and more obvious that this wasn't so.
And the time went by.
And the crucial moment for me remains when David Cameron took over the Conservative Party on behalf of the Blairites.
I can put this more clearly now than I could then, but I was quite clear about it at the time.
If people allow this to happen, if people endorse this Blairite takeover of the only major opposition party, then it is the end.
You mustn't do it.
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