Peter Hitchens

Quick Facts

Full Name	Peter Hitchens
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Oct 28, 1951(1951-10-28)
Age	73
Birthplace	Sliema
Country	Malta
Horoscope	Libra

Peter Hitchens Biography

Peter Hitchens is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on October 28, 1951 in Sliema, Malta. Peter Hitchens was born in the Crown Colony of Malta, where his father, Eric Ernest Hitchens (1909-1987) was who was a career naval officer was stationed in his time in the Mediterranean Fleet of the Royal Navy. Hitchens had dreamed of becoming a naval officer however, an eye defect hindered him from achieving this. The mother of his son, Yvonne Jean Hitchens (nee Hickman 1921-1973) committed suicide in Athens by pacts together with her partner, a clergyman who had been defrocked identified as Timothy Bryan. The two overdosed on sleeping pills within adjoining hotel rooms. Bryan was able to cut his wrists with a knife in the tub.

Hitchens began his career as a journalist with the local newspaper in Swindon before moving to his first newspaper, the Coventry Evening Telegraph. He later began his career at The Daily Express between 1977 and 2000. He began as a reporter specializing in industrial and labour issues and later as an editor of the political section and then as deputy editor of the political section. In his departure from journalism for parliamentary, he focused on defense and diplomatic matters as well as the fall and demise of communist regimes across several Warsaw Pact countries, which culminated in an assignment as Moscow reporter and covering the life in Moscow in the final weeks of Soviet Union and the early period of the Russian Federation in 1990-92. He was a reporter for the UK general election of 1992 and closely followed Neil Kinnock. Then, he was appointed his Daily Express Washington correspondent. After returning back to Britain around 1995, the journalist was an author and commentator.

Hitchens first worked as a foreign reporter in the 1980s, mainly reporting from the Eastern Bloc, with his first such assignment to Poland during the Solidarity crisis in November 1980. He travelled to Japan and Germany during his time as an industrial reporter and reported from several other countries, including the USA, Japan, and South Korea as part of the group of reporters accompanying Margaret Thatcher. After witnessing the Velvet Revolution and the Romanian Revolution, he became the Daily Express resident Moscow Correspondent in June 1990. He left Moscow (via the Bering Strait) in October 1992, and was briefly based in London during which time he reported from South Africa during the last days of apartheid, and from Somalia at the time of the United Nations intervention in the Somali Civil War.

He married Eve Ross, the daughter of journalist David Ross, in 1983. They have a daughter and two sons. Their elder son, Dan, is deputy editor of the Catholic Herald, a London-based Roman Catholic newspaper.

Hitchens was a student at Mount House School, Tavistock The Leys School, and the City of Oxford College before getting accepted into York University. University of York, where he was a student of Philosophy and Politics and was a part of Alcuin College, graduating in 1973.

Peter Hitchens Net Worth

Peter Hitchens is one of the richest Journalist from Malta. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Peter Hitchens 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Peter Jonathan Hitchens (born 28 October 1951) is an English conservative journalist and writer. Hitchens is a writer for The Mail on Sunday and was a former foreign reporter in Moscow as well as Washington. He has written eight books which include The Abolition of Britain, The Rage Against God, and The War We Never Fought.

Hitchens was an active part of the International Socialists (forerunners of the modern Socialist Workers’ Union) from 1968 until 1975 (beginning at the age of 17) following the time that Christopher introduced him to them.

He joined the Labour Party in 1977 but left shortly after campaigning for Ken Livingstone in 1979, thinking it wrong to carry a party card when directly reporting politics, and coinciding with a culmination of growing personal disillusionment with the Labour movement.

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Who is Peter Hitchens Dating?

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In 2000, Hitchens left the Daily Express after its acquisition by Richard Desmond, stated that working for him would have represented a moral conflict of interest. Hitchens joined The Mail on Sunday, where he has a weekly column and weblog in which he debates directly with readers. Hitchens has also written for The Spectator and The American Conservative magazines, and occasionally for The Guardian, Prospect, and the New Statesman.

Facts & Trivia

Peter Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Malta. Peter Hitchens celebrates birthday on October 28 of every year.

Hitchens opposed the Kosovo and 2003 Iraq War, on the grounds that neither was in the interests of either Britain or the United States, and opposes the war in Afghanistan.

Are Peter and Christopher Hitchens related?

Christopher’s only sibling was the journalist and author Peter Hitchens, who is two years younger. Christopher said in 2005 the main difference between the two is belief in the existence of God.

Who was Christopher Hitchens brother?

Peter Hitchens

How old is Peter Hitchens?

70 years (October 28, 1951)

Does Peter Hitchens have a brother?

Christopher Hitchens

Why does Peter Hitchens believe in God?

Peter Hitchens, with particular reference to events which occurred in the Soviet Union, argues that his brother’s verdict on religion is misguided, and that faith in God is both a safeguard against the collapse of civilisation into moral chaos and the best antidote to what he views as the dangerous idea of earthly …