Peter Hitchens has won the Orwell Journalism Prize for his foreign reporting for the Mail on Sunday.

Shortlisted for the third time in four years, Hitchens’ winning selection of articles included reports from Prague, South Africa, Tokyo, Ottawa and China, as well as a counterfactual piece asking ‘What if the Berlin Wall didn’t fall?’

The judges said: “In choosing this year’s winner, we went back to Orwell.