Introduction; 1. War, Patriotism and Sovereignty; 2. Liberty; 3. Education; 4. Why are Cars Conservative and Trains Left Wing?; 5. Constitutional Monarchy and Freedom Go Together; 6. Constitutional Reform You Can Do Yourself.
Peter Hitchens is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. He witnessed most of the final scenes of the Cold War, and was a resident correspondent in the Soviet capital and in Washington DC. He frequently revisits both Russia and the USA. He currently writes for the Mail on Sunday, where he is a columnist and occasional foreign correspondent, reporting most recently from Iran, North Korea, Burma, The Congo and China.
The Broken Compass, which has received less attention in the
conservative press than it deserves, mixes Hitchens's analysis of
modern British politics - and the lack of any small-c conservative
party - with his own memoirs as an industrial and foreign
correspondent.--Sanford Lakoff
Hitchens ... never seeks to conceal the dramatic nature of his own
ideological odyssey ... Today, famously, he is a fully fledged
flail of the left, though interestingly this has not led to any
great devotion to the Tory cause, least of all as represented by
the emollient David Cameron. If there is one thing that can be
counted on from the reconstructed Hitchens, it is his eagerness to
go tooth and nail for political timidity wherever he detects it
and, in his view, "compassionate Conservatism" is every bit as
vulnerable in this respect as was New Labour back in 1997. He
writes with much of the verve and brio of his elder brother and
with a greater regard for detail and accuracy.--Sanford Lakoff
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