Another Student Interviews Me

For those that like that sort of thing, here is another interview with me, conducted by a student journalist, Will Bordell.

 

http://willbordell.co.uk/an-interview-with-peter-hitchens-shouting-into-the-wind/

 

I agreed to do it and so cannot complain. People who interview you can always make it look as if they won arguments that they in fact lost. It's too wearisome to put these things right. But if he'd asked me about Henry VIII I could at least have put him right on the historical fact that Henry sought (and obtained) an annulment, not a divorce. To this day, the Church of England does not officially recognise divorce, as its Prayer Book makes it clear that a properly solemnised and valid marriage cann only be ended by death. Those who can't tell the difference between divorce and annulment, or who think it unimportant, will never understand the events of Henry's reign.