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He has been described by the [[left-wing]] [[The Guardian|Guardian]] newspaper as: "The Mail on Sunday's fulminator-in-chief" and his columns as "molten [[Old Testament]] fury shot through with visceral wit."<ref name="anger">'''Silver, James''' ''Look forward in anger'' [http://web.archive.org/web/20131220001434/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/nov/14/mailonsunday.mondaymediasection The Guardian, November 14 2005] (archived)</ref> Hitchens is uncompromising with his moral and political stance, describing Britain as a land of "burglaries, muggings, swearing, pools of vomit, [[Multiple-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus|MRSA]], rave parties and traveller encampments"; [[Social housing|council estates]] as "surrounded by the tattooed, with their pit bulls and serial partners, crack dens, joy-riders, open-all-hours pubs," and the police as "wooden, officious twerps in dayglo jackets" who have sided with the lawless and given up on crime. Of single mothers, he wrote: "It cannot be long before Britain has its first 24-year-old granny. When you abolish husbands and fathers that is what you get. As the rules of civilised life are swept away and the only people interested in getting married are lesbian clergywomen, there will soon be thousands of them." Hitchens lays the blame squarely at the door of the [[liberal]] left-wing: "Like several governments before it, Labour has actively encouraged promiscuity by undermining marriage, promoting 'alternative lifestyles' and preaching immorality in schools - and, of course, by continuing to subsidise the results." He has also criticised [[immigration]], which is "limitless" and "unmonitored"; [[Tony Blair]]'s ''New Labour'' - "a horrible rabble of fakes, wreckers and frauds" who are "dismantling Britain as a free country"; the Conservative Party - "the Useless party"; the [[EU]] - "horrible", "a monster", "anti-British"; and liberal left-wing intellectuals - "hell-bent on turning the UK into a meaningless, history-free and cultureless wilderness".<ref name="anger" />

He has been described by the [[left-wing]] [[The Guardian|Guardian]] newspaper as: "The Mail on Sunday's fulminator-in-chief" and his columns as "molten [[Old Testament]] fury shot through with visceral wit."<ref name="anger">'''Silver, James''' ''Look forward in anger'' [http://web.archive.org/web/20131220001434/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/nov/14/mailonsunday.mondaymediasection The Guardian, November 14 2005] (archived)</ref> Hitchens is uncompromising with his moral and political stance, describing Britain as a land of "burglaries, muggings, swearing, pools of vomit, [[Multiple-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus|MRSA]], rave parties and traveller encampments"; [[Social housing|council estates]] as "surrounded by the tattooed, with their pit bulls and serial partners, crack dens, joy-riders, open-all-hours pubs," and the police as "wooden, officious twerps in dayglo jackets" who have sided with the lawless and given up on crime. Of single mothers, he wrote: "It cannot be long before Britain has its first 24-year-old granny. When you abolish husbands and fathers that is what you get. As the rules of civilised life are swept away and the only people interested in getting married are lesbian clergywomen, there will soon be thousands of them." Hitchens lays the blame squarely at the door of the [[liberal]] left-wing: "Like several governments before it, Labour has actively encouraged promiscuity by undermining marriage, promoting 'alternative lifestyles' and preaching immorality in schools - and, of course, by continuing to subsidise the results." He has also criticised [[immigration]], which is "limitless" and "unmonitored"; [[Tony Blair]]'s ''New Labour'' - "a horrible rabble of fakes, wreckers and frauds" who are "dismantling Britain as a free country"; the Conservative Party - "the Useless party"; the [[EU]] - "horrible", "a monster", "anti-British"; and liberal left-wing intellectuals - "hell-bent on turning the UK into a meaningless, history-free and cultureless wilderness".<ref name="anger" />

His outspoken criticism has predictably made him unpopular with many politicians as well as the left-wing press: [[Gerry Adams]], leader of the [[IRA]]'s political wing ([[Sinn Féin]]) called for him to be "decommissioned"; Tony Blair, while [[Prime Minister]], told him to "sit down and stop being bad" for daring to ask him a difficult question; and Conservative Party leader [[David Cameron]] refused to allow him an interview, a rebuff Hitchens took as a compliment. Hitchens' book "The Abolition of Britain" has been described as "the most sustained, internally logical and powerful attack on Tony Blair and all his works".<ref>''Peter Hitchens' biog'' [http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2006/02/peter_hitchens_.html The Mail on Sunday, 28 February 2006] Accessed July 19 2007</ref>

His outspoken criticism has predictably made him unpopular with many politicians as well as the left-wing press: [[Gerry Adams]], leader of the [[IRA]]'s political wing ([[Sinn Féin]]) called for him to be "decommissioned"; Tony Blair, while [[Prime Minister]], told him to "sit down and stop being bad" for daring to ask him a difficult question; and Conservative Party leader [[David Cameron]] refused to allow him an interview, a rebuff Hitchens took as a compliment. Hitchens' book "The Abolition of Britain" has been described as "the most sustained, internally logical and powerful attack on Tony Blair and all his works".<ref>''Peter Hitchens' biog'' [http://web.archive.org/web/20060429043055/http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2006/02/peter_hitchens_.html The Mail on Sunday, 28 February 2006] (Archived)</ref>

He has made a detailed study of the [[United Kingdom|UK]]'s [[crime]] problem and the negative changes in policing and the police force, leading to his book "The Abolition of Liberty". He is strongly critical of the use of drugs to control the behaviour of children, and has vigorously questioned the existence of the disorder [[Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder|ADHD]]. He has argued that parents who want single [[vaccination]]s for their children rather than the controversial [[Combination vaccine|triple]] [[Measles, Mumps, Rubella vaccine controversy|MMR]] should be given them on the [[National Health Service|NHS]], and has challenged Tony Blair and Prime Minister [[Gordon Brown]] to say openly if their own young sons have been given the MMR they are forcing on others.<ref>''If MMR is safe, why persecute its critics?'' [http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2007/07/if-mmr-is-safe-.html The Mail on Sunday, 10 July 2007] Accessed July 19 2007</ref> He has opposed the introduction of identity cards and attacked what he believes is the Labour government's assault on ancient English liberties.<ref>''Big Brother Watches Britain'' [http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_05_08/article.html The American Conservative, May 8 2006] Accessed July 19 2007</ref>  

He has made a detailed study of the [[United Kingdom|UK]]'s [[crime]] problem and the negative changes in policing and the police force, leading to his book "The Abolition of Liberty". He is strongly critical of the use of drugs to control the behaviour of children, and has vigorously questioned the existence of the disorder [[Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder|ADHD]]. He has argued that parents who want single [[vaccination]]s for their children rather than the controversial [[Combination vaccine|triple]] [[Measles, Mumps, Rubella vaccine controversy|MMR]] should be given them on the [[National Health Service|NHS]], and has challenged Tony Blair and Prime Minister [[Gordon Brown]] to say openly if their own young sons have been given the MMR they are forcing on others.<ref>''If MMR is safe, why persecute its critics?'' [http://web.archive.org/web/20150715125431/http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2007/07/if-mmr-is-safe-.html The Mail on Sunday, 10 July 2007] Accessed July 19 2007</ref> He has opposed the introduction of identity cards and attacked what he believes is the Labour government's assault on ancient English liberties.<ref>''Big Brother Watches Britain'' [http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_05_08/article.html The American Conservative, May 8 2006] (Archived)</ref>  

He describes [[intelligent design]] as being valuable as a sceptical current critical of [[Darwinism|Darwinist]] orthodoxy and intolerance, although not as a free-standing theory, but says: "I am not a scientist... My own view on the controversy...can be summarised in the words 'I have no idea who is right, and nor have they'."<ref>''Intelligence and design'' [http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2006/12/intelligence_an.html The Mail on Sunday, December 5 2006] Accessed July 19 2007</ref>

He describes [[intelligent design]] as being valuable as a sceptical current critical of [[Darwinism|Darwinist]] orthodoxy and intolerance, although not as a free-standing theory, but says: "I am not a scientist... My own view on the controversy...can be summarised in the words 'I have no idea who is right, and nor have they'."<ref>''Intelligence and design'' [http://web.archive.org/web/20150425064731/http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2006/12/intelligence_an.html The Mail on Sunday, December 5 2006] (Archived)</ref>

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