From the archive: Christopher Hitchens on Michael Foot
November 1980: The journalist and author excoriates the then leader of the opposition’s book.
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Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens was an author and journalist, and former foreign editor of the New Statesman. He wrote or edited more than 30 books on culture, politics and literature.
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From the archive: Christopher Hitchens on Prince Charles
First published 21 December 1979.
ByChristopher Hitchens on the death of Pope Paul VI
"To judge by the tide of uncritical sentimentality which swept over the British press … you might have thought…
ByChristopher Hitchens on Orwell: “What people do not want to hear”
Christopher Hitchens reviews Bernard Crick's "George Orwell: A Life".
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Please, Tony Blair, let’s not “do God”
The Vanity Fair columnist and author of God is not great on the banality of Tony Blair’s new faith…
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