Born in Sliema in 1951, Peter Hitchens has built a career that has taken him from foreign postings in Moscow and Washington, D.C. to a regular column in a British national newspaper. His work spans journalism, broadcasting, and book-length writing, with contributions spread across a notably wide range of publications.

Hitchens was educated at the University of York and went on to work as a journalist and foreign correspondent. His reporting from Moscow and Washington, D.C. gave him material and perspective that fed into decades of commentary on British and international affairs. He writes for The Mail on Sunday and has contributed pieces to The Spectator, The Guardian, the New Statesman, The American Conservative, First Things, Prospect, and The Critic — a spread that cuts across the usual left-right divides of the British press.

Alongside his journalism, Hitchens has worked as a broadcaster, commentator, and blogger, and has produced a substantial body of books. His titles include The Abolition of Britain, A Brief History of Crime, The Rage Against God, The Broken Compass: How British Politics Lost its Way, and The War We Never Fought. The subjects covered across those books range from shifts in British culture and the state of criminal justice to religious belief and drug policy, reflecting the breadth of concerns that also run through his column and public commentary.

The War We Never Fought, one of his later books, represents the kind of sustained, polemical argument that characterises his written work more broadly. His output as a United Kingdom citizen writing in English has reached audiences through print, broadcast, and online platforms alike, with his Mail on Sunday column and blog keeping him a consistent presence in British public debate. His contributions to publications as varied as First Things and The Guardian point to a career defined less by allegiance to a single editorial home than by a willingness to place arguments wherever an audience might engage with them.