商品簡介
One English critic described this book as `an elegant jeremiad', in which Peter Hitchens identifies everything that has gone wrong with Britain since the war and makes the case for `those many millions who feel that they have become foreigners in their own land and wish with each succeeding day that they could turn the clock back'.
Writing with brilliance and flair, Hitchens targets the pernicious effects of TV culture, the corruption and decay of English language, the loss of deference and the syrupy confessional mood brought on by the death of Princess Diana. This new paperback edition includes a brand new introduction taking the story up to the present day.
`This is a cri de coeur from an honest, intelligent and patriotic Englishman, desperately worried about the corruption of his country and the likely effects of its lurch into the embrace of a European superstate
作者簡介
Peter Hitchens is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. A reporter for most of his career, he currently writes for the Mail on Sunday
