 Complete the following phrase:  Chapter 11, The Fall of the Meritocracy, examines falling standards in British education. Hitchens cites the abolition of grammar schools as one of the main causes, which has also resulted in a decline in social mobility. Hitchens claims egalitarians deny these consequences and that comprehensive education has failed. Hitchens also quotes a 2000 study, which asserted that the general lowering of standards and rigour since the end of selection is one of the main reasons behind the current drive to devalue examinations. Hitchens asks why, the educated, conscious servants of the state should seek to pretend that educational standards are rising when the opposite is true. The answer is that they have put equality before education. Chapter 12, The age of the train, outlines how the Conservative and Labour parties facilitated the dismantling of much of Britains rail network. Hitchens asserts this is evidence that the Tory Party does not love Britain, any more than the Labour Party loves the poor. The chapter also provides a conservative argument against mass car ownership, saying that roads destroy and distort established ways of living, while the traditional English town, with its defined centre, ancient street pattern and comfortable shape, was not destroyed by the coming of the railway. It was enhanced. In Chapter 13, A Comfortable Hotel on the Road to Damascus, Hitchens explores how since the 