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Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) was an author and journalist. He joined the New Statesman in 1973.

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Religion
Christopher Hitchens on the death of Pope Paul VI
28 February 2013

"To judge by the tide of uncritical sentimentality which swept over the British press ... you might have thought that the Reformation had never taken place".

Cultural Capital
Christopher Hitchens on Orwell: "What people do not want to hear"
24 January 2013

Christopher Hitchens reviews Bernard Crick's "George Orwell: A Life".

Europe
Christopher Hitchens: The state of Spain
05 January 2012

Madrid, 1976: Hitchens files a report following the death of Franco.

Society
Hitchens archive: Sir David's Flying Wedge
05 January 2012

Following the death of Blair Peach in 1979, Hitchens writes about the policing of protests.

Africa
Hitchens archive: Colonel Ghadaffi's Libya
05 January 2012

In this 1976 article, Hitchens reflects on a dictator on the ascendant.

Newspapers
Hitchens archive: The Daily Mail does it again
05 January 2012

In this article from 2 February 1979, Hitchens excoriates the Daily Mail and the right-wing press in

Global Issues
Please, let’s not do God
02 April 2009

The Vanity Fair columnist and author of God is not great on Tony Blair's new faith foundati

UK Politics
Michael Foot v the New Statesman
17 July 2008

In 1978 Bruce Page, the editor of the New Statesman, reprinted extracts from a stirring spe

Books
Just give peace a chance?
15 May 2008

The Second World War was wrong and avoidable, argues Nicholson Baker, and through the criminal belli

International Politics
Iraq Flexes Arab Muscle
05 July 2007

In 1976 Christopher Hitchens saw Saddam as an up-and-coming secular socialist who would transform Ir

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