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Please, let�s not do God

Christopher Hitchens — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:47:35 GMT

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

Michael Foot v the New Statesman

Christopher Hitchens — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:22:07 GMT

In 1978 Bruce Page, the editor of the New Statesman, reprinted extracts from a stirring speech made by Michael Foot as a Labour rebel in 1968. Foot's criticisms contrasted starkly with his position a decade later - as a leading member of the Labour government - on its economic policy. Foot sent a vituperative letter in his own defence, printed the following week. It ended with a flick of contempt at a staff journalist, Christopher Hitchens, who responded similarly.

Just give peace a chance?

Christopher Hitchens — Thu, 15 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT

The Second World War was wrong and avoidable, argues Nicholson Baker, and through the criminal belligerence of Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt brought catastrophe and death to tens of millions

Iraq Flexes Arab Muscle

Christopher Hitchens — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:24:00 GMT

In 1976 Christopher Hitchens saw Saddam as an up-and-coming secular socialist who would transform Iraq into a progressive model for the rest of the Middle East

Am I a dwarf or a horseman?

Christopher Hitchens — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT

It's an honour to be mentioned in the same breath as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris. We could become known as the Four Horsemen of the Counter-Apocalypse

Scotland - nation or state?

Christopher Hitchens — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:00:00 GMT

The New Statesman 12 December 1975 Scotland may soon celebrate the 300th anniversary of its Act of Union with England by making the Scottish National Party the largest force in the regional assembly. Thirty-two years ago, after Harold Wilson's Labour government in London embraced devolution, the New Statesman's staff writer Christopher Hitchens took Scotland's feverish temperature. His despatch on the mood north of the border was premature, but it may yet prove prophetic. Selected by Robert Taylor