Peter Hitchens is a journalist. He has a weekly column in the Mail on Sunday and is the author of several books, including The Abolition of Britain; The Cameron Delusion; The Rage Against God and The War We Never Fought.

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To my father, Commander Eric Hitchens RN, 1909–87

‘Countries that have long been Great Powers shrink from admitting that they are Great no longer.’

A. J. P. Taylor,
(The Origins of the Second World War, 1961)