The Abolition of Britain

The Abolition of Britain is the first book by the British conservative journalist Peter Hitchens, published in 1999, examining a period of perceived moral and cultural reform in Britain between the 1960s and New Labour's general election victory of 1997. Hitchens argues that these reforms facilitated the vast and radical constitutional change carried out under Tony Blair's government, which he characterizes as a slow motion coup d'etat. The book was cited by Gillian Bowditch in The Times as a major modern work dissecting the decline in British morals and manners over the preceding half-century, and was described by Andrew Marr in The Observer as the most sustained, internally logical and powerful attack on Tony Blair and his government.