Peter Hitchens and John discuss some of the key issues facing contemporary society, including the breakdown in trust , his experiences in the Soviet Union, conservatism, and more.

Peter Hitchens is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. He currently writes for the Mail on Sunday, where he is a columnist and occasional foreign correspondent.

A former revolutionary, he partly attributes his return to Christian faith to his experience of socialism in practice, which he witnessed during his years reporting in Eastern Europe and later from Moscow during the collapse of the Soviet Union.

#Politics #Christianity #Socialism
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00:00 Introduction
1:05 The Collapse of European Christianity
8:35 Leftism: The Enemy of Free Speech
20:11 The Soviet Union & State-Sanctioned Atheism
31:14 The Immorality of Secularism
38:06 We All Need Hope
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