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...Hitchen added: “It would boost the democratic credentials of the government if they had opposition MPs sitting in parliament.”...
...Hitchens says: “Is there some healthy scepticism? Yes....
...It’s hardly Christopher Hitchens debating Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. But around this time of year, online atheists and chatroom believers love to thrash out an age-old debate: “Why God and not Santa?”...
...It’s also easy to find flaws in the oeuvres of Amis and Hitchens, some of them the size of entire books, but life is comic and one way to be comic is to get things wrong....
...About the death of his close friend, fellow writer Christopher Hitchens — who also died of oesophageal cancer — he said: “His love of life was so intense he seems to have transmitted to his friends — and...
...Kissinger was vilified as having blood on his hands by writers such as Christopher Hitchens and Seymour Hersh....
...As a Hitchens-grade atheist, however, I had to stifle the odd hypocritical pang. Thankfully, banking taught me how. Inconsistency and self-delusion were integral to the job....
...(“The man can’t write worth a damn,” he said, according to Christopher Hitchens, though his view would mellow.)...
...Jamie Hitchen, an independent west Africa analyst, said Bio’s tenure had been “a mixed bag”, with achievements such as increased investment in education and repeal of the death penalty weighed against “concerns...
...I am able to name but one commentator, Peter Hitchens, who tends to that view. In fact, reactionary thought is so marginal that even the word itself is shifting in common usage....
...then a powerhouse of young talent whose cramped and grubby offices housed, besides Amis, the future novelist Julian Barnes, the poet and critic James Fenton and the essayist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens...
...(Ethan Wu) One good read From the archives: Christopher Hitchens versus Mother Teresa....
...It’s an autobiographical account of his relationships with the late Saul Bellow, Philip Larkin and Christopher Hitchens, and it’s deeply moving to read knowing Amis would himself die three years after it...
...uncritically and disastrously advocate on behalf of state violence, be it Max Weber and Walter Lippmann (first world war), Isaiah Berlin (Vietnam war), Michael Ignatieff (Afghanistan and Iraq wars), Christopher Hitchens...
...Hitchens had the misfortune to peak during one of world history’s blander interludes....
...Such was this relativism, this refusal to speak ill of what is now the “global south”, that Christopher Hitchens left the left....
...“A lack of urban planning must be addressed if mitigation efforts are to be anything more than papering over the cracks,” says Jamie Hitchen, an analyst at the UK-based African Cities Research Consortium...
.... -- Christopher Hitchens couldn’t survive in today’s world. -- The trial of Charles Lieber. -- Biden shouldn’t run again. ($, NYT) -- Distraction-free devices. ($, NYer)...
...She and Adrian, who still lives with her, have amassed a trove of British art: their walls feature both household names such as Patrick Procktor and Ivon Hitchens as well as lesser-known pieces they’ve picked...
...Reading Martin Amis’s semifictional Inside Story (about his relationship with three dead writers — Saul Bellow, Philip Larkin and Christopher Hitchens) sent me back to Hitchens’ Hitch-22....
...It is telling how many of Rushdie’s staunchest defenders — Susan Sontag, Christopher Hitchens — were radicals. Knowing the extremist temperament from the inside-out, they had no illusions about it....
...The writer Christopher Hitchens, dressed in a crumpled cream linen suit, is acting as a garrulous sommelier....
...Thus there are paintings by British artists such as Morley Bury, Bruce Lacey, Kenneth Rowntree and Ivon Hitchens. They reveal a long family history of collecting. “It’s a horrible strain,” says Adrian....
...Arricale and Hitchen originally toyed with having a curved banquette down the middle of the room, but old photographs convinced them “round tables were a big part of the business”, says Arricale....
...In March 1956, Wally and Kitty Hitchens reported strange goings-on in their terraced house on Wycliffe Road in south-west London....
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