Christopher Hitchens
Articles by Christopher Hitchens
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Society
Michael Foot v the New Statesman
- 17 July 2008
- 2 comments
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.
Books
Just give peace a chance?
- 15 May 2008
- 16 comments
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
Society
Iraq Flexes Arab Muscle
- 05 July 2007
- 9 comments
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
Life & Society
Am I a dwarf or a horseman?
- 28 June 2007
- 6 comments
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
Society
Scotland - nation or state?
- 30 April 2007
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.
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