Peter Hitchens, 58, is a columnist and foreign reporter for the Mail on
Sunday. His most recent reports have come from Burma, North Korea, Iran,
China and the Congo. He is a former Marxist who finally abandoned socialism
after many years of working as a labour reporter, followed by wide travel
in the Communist world and two years as a resident correspondent in Moscow.
These experiences are described in his two most recent book 'The Cameron
Delusion' and 'The Rage Against God'. Hitchens broadcasts whenever he is
given the chance to do so, and has written and presented a number of TV
programmes, including a critical study of David Cameron for Channel Four.
He lists his recreations as 'second hand bookshops and long train journeys'.