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'''Peter Jonathan Hitchens''' (28 October 1951, [[Malta]]) is a [[British]] [[journalist]], [[author]] and broadcaster. He currently writes for the British weekly [[newspaper]], [[Daily Mail|The Mail on Sunday]]. He is the younger brother of journalist [[Christopher Hitchens]]. He is [[Jewish]] by matrilineal descent, but practices [[Anglican Church|Anglicanism]]. He has said that he considers himself "as Jewish as a ham sandwich". Like his brother, Hitchens is a former [[Trotskyism|Trotskyist]] and was a member of the [[International Socialists]] from 1969 to 1975, later joining the British [[Labour Party]] from 1979 to 1983. He also studied politics at [[York University]] between 1970 and 1973.  

'''Peter Jonathan Hitchens''' (28 October 1951, [[Malta]]) is a [[British]] [[journalist]], [[author]] and broadcaster. He currently writes for the British weekly [[newspaper]], [[Daily Mail|The Mail on Sunday]]. He is the younger brother of journalist [[Christopher Hitchens]]. Hitchens is a former [[Trotskyism|Trotskyist]] and was a member of the [[International Socialists]] from 1969 to 1975, later joining the British [[Labour Party]] from 1979 to 1983. He also studied politics at [[York University]] between 1970 and 1973.  

However, in his early 30's he returned to the conservatism and Anglicanism of his upbringing<ref>'''Katz, Ian''' ''When Christopher met Peter'' [http://books.guardian.co.uk/hay2005/story/0,15880,1495897,00.html The Guardian, May 31 2005] Accessed July 19 2007</ref> and in 1997 he joined the [[Conservative Party]], believing it to be the democratic resistance to [[Tony Blair|Tony Blair's]] ''New Labour''. Dissatisfied with the lack of direction of the Conservative Party, he left it in 2003 and now asserts that the only way forward is to completely dismantle and rebuild the party. Politically, Hitchens supports social, moral and cultural conservatism, and classic liberalism, not dissimilar to those of [[American]] [[paleoconservative]]s.

However, in his early 30's he returned to the conservatism and Anglicanism of his upbringing<ref>'''Katz, Ian''' ''When Christopher met Peter'' [http://books.guardian.co.uk/hay2005/story/0,15880,1495897,00.html The Guardian, May 31 2005] Accessed July 19 2007</ref> and in 1997 he joined the [[Conservative Party]], believing it to be the democratic resistance to [[Tony Blair|Tony Blair's]] ''New Labour''. Dissatisfied with the lack of direction of the Conservative Party, he left it in 2003 and now asserts that the only way forward is to completely dismantle and rebuild the party. Politically, Hitchens supports social, moral and cultural conservatism, and classic liberalism, not dissimilar to those of [[American]] [[paleoconservative]]s.