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Peter Jonathan Hitchens (born 28 October 1951) is an English journalist and author. He has published six books, including ''The Abolition of Britain'', ''The Rage Against God'' and ''The War We Never Fought''. Hitchens writes for Britain's ''The Mail on Sunday'' newspaper and is a former foreign correspondent in Moscow and Washington. He continues to work as an occasional foreign reporter and in 2010, in recognition of his foreign reporting, he was awarded the Orwell Prize. Hitchens describes himself as a theist and a Burkean conservative. He is a frequent critic of political correctness. He is the younger brother of the late writer Christopher Hitchens. == Early life == Peter Hitchens was born in 1951 in Malta, when his father, a career naval officer, was stationed on the islands with the Royal Navy as part of the colonial garrison when Malta was then a colony within the British Empire. He was educated at The Leys School and the Oxford College of Further Education before being accepted at the University of York, where he studied Philosophy and Politics and was a member of Alcuin College, graduating in 1973. He later commented that he "must have been a severe disappointment" to his parents after making sure he "would never get into Oxbridge" by being arrested breaking into a government fall-out shelter. Hitchens began on the far left of the political spectrum before moving to the right. He was a member of the Trotskyist International Socialists (forerunners of the modern Socialist Workers' Party) from 1969 to 1975 at age 17, claiming to have been introduced to IS by his brother.〔(Owen Jones meets Peter Hitchens - full length ) via the ''YouTube'' channel of Owen Jones.〕 In 2010 he dismissed the "cruel revolutionary rubbish" he promoted as a Trotskyist as "poison", but said in an interview with left-wing columnist Owen Jones that "it was a reasonable mistake to have made. I'm glad I made it, because unlike people who've been vaccinated against a disease, I've actually had the disease and therefore I'm totally immune from it in a way that a mere vaccination couldn't possibly provide. ... It taught me how to think, in a lot of ways. So I don't regret the experience at all, I think everybody should have it."〔 He joined the British Labour Party in 1977, but left it in 1983 when he became a political reporter at the ''Daily Express'', thinking it wrong to carry a party card when directly reporting politics. This also coincided with a culmination of growing personal disillusionment with the Labour movement. In 2009, Hitchens wrote of this period, "Against the Labour Party, which I knew to be penetrated by all manner of Marxists, and soaked in the ideas of the revolutionaries, it was increasingly necessary to support the Tories. This was partly because of the strikers' lies, but much more because of Poland and Czechoslovakia. On the Cold War, I knew she () was right and the Left were wrong". He married Eve Ross, the daughter of left-wing journalist David Ross, in 1983.〔https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVXF-MG2Z〕 They have three children, a daughter born in 1984 and a son born in 1989 and a third child born c 2000. Hitchens originally hoped to become a naval officer, but an eye defect prevented him from doing so. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Hitchens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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