Yet five decades on, things are starting to thaw. In a way, the treaty has remained broken ever since. To my shame, I was the one who repudiated it, ripped it from its frame and angrily erased my signature, before recommencing hostilities. I can still picture this doomed pact in its red frame, briefly hanging on the wall. We were the sort that just didn’t.’ He continues:Īt one stage – I was about nine, he nearly 12 – my poor gentle father actually persuaded us to sign a peace treaty in the hope of halting our feud. * ‘Some brothers get on,’ Peter writes mournfully, ‘some do not. In his book about religion, Peter Hitchens has a lot more to say about his brother Christopher than Christopher has to say about Peter in his book about himself.
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