Peter Hitchens vs. Tony Benn
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Peter Hitchens
1951 – present
Peter Jonathan Hitchens is an English conservative author, broadcaster, journalist, and commentator. He writes for The Mail on Sunday and was a foreign correspondent reporting from both Moscow and Washington, D.C. Hitchens has contributed to The Spectator, The American Conservative, The Guardian, First Things, Prospect, The Critic and the New Statesman.
"The main enemy of conservatism in Britain is the Conservative Party."
Tony Benn
1925 – 2014
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn, known between 1960 and 1963 as The Viscount Stansgate, was a British Labour Party politician and political activist who served as a Cabinet minister in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol South East and Chesterfield for 47 of the 51 years between 1950 and 2001. He later served as President of the Stop the War Coalition from 2001 to 2014.
"Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation and the end of our democratically elected P…"