PETER HITCHENS: Is there no way to stop the secret brainwashing of the next generation?

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

I will always remember the day they took away the history books. My small boarding school, on a rain-lashed Devon hilltop, had until that day taught us about the glory and grandeur of English history. It was a story of courage, freedom and the defeat of foreign threats.

But these volumes, their pages soft from use, their illustrations in wistful black and white, were no longer acceptable. They were gathered up and carted off. Instead, we were gi...