 He describes and criticises the growing strength of such forces as multiculturalism, which still had a liberal consensus behind it at the time the book was written.He argues that English schools had largely ceased to teach the history of the country or the literature of Britain's past, criticising the preference for methodology in history teaching.Other changes gain Hitchens's attention, from the passivity and conformism resulting from the watching of television to the Church of England's rejection of its traditional liturgy and scripture.