Hitchens is opposed to the decriminalisation of recreational drugs.

Other awardees include Steven Weinberg ( 2001 ), Penn & Teller ( 2003 ), Alan Dershowitz ( 2003 ), Ron Reagan ( 2004 ), Peter Singer ( 2004 ), Christopher Hitchens ( 2007 ), Daniel Dennett ( 2008 ), Ayaan Hirsi Ali ( 2010 ), and Richard Dawkins ( 2001, 2012 ).

* Tariq Ali and Christopher Hitchens – took opposing sides in two debates over the Iraq War, on December 4, 2003 and October 12, 2004.

Chatterjee and Hitchens were the only two official hostile witnesses to Church procedures for the beatification of Mother Teresa in 2003.

Hitchens is the author of The Abolition of Britain ( 1999, ISBN 978-0-7043-8140-7 ) and A Brief History of Crime ( 2003, ISBN 978-1-84354-148-6 ), both critical of changes in British society since the 1960s.

Chatterjee himself published The Final Verdict in 2003, a less polemic work than those of Hitchens and Ali, but equally critical of Teresa's operations.

" His numerous editorials in support of the Iraq War caused some to label him a neoconservative, although Hitchens insisted he was not " a conservative of any kind ", and his friend Ian McEwan described him as representing the anti-totalitarian left.

* Eric Alterman on Charlie Rose, discussing the Iraq war with Christopher Hitchens.

He began speaking out against invading Iraq, notably in a series of debates with Christopher Hitchens, Leon Wieseltier, Michael Ignatieff, David Frum, William Kristol and others.

Christopher Hitchens criticized the film for not mentioning the history of repression, aggression, war crimes and the general state of human rights in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, nor Iraq's noncompliance with numerous United Nations resolutions.

" While interviewing Hitchens on his show, Scarborough claimed to be outraged at Moore's portrayal of the Iraqi insurgency, claiming Moore's film suggests " those killing Americans in Iraq aren't the enemy, but rather they are the revolution and the Minutemen, who are sure to win their battle against the occupation " and that " Moore says that the enemy is George Bush and Saddam Hussein and Mr. Zarqawi and Mr. Bin Laden are no problem.

Christopher Hitchens criticizes Moore for stating, in his film, that Iraq had not killed or attacked an American: " Moore asserts that Iraq under Saddam had never attacked or killed or even threatened ( his words ) any American.

* Ireland Debates Christopher Hitchens on George Bush and the War in Iraq

Christopher Hitchens, in his autobiography, describes a dinner with Christie and her husband, Max Mallowan, that became increasingly uncomfortable as the night wore on, where " The anti-Jewish flavour of the talk was not to be ignored or overlooked, or put down to heavy humour or generational prejudice.

D ' Souza has debated several atheists and critics of Christianity at programs at various universities, including Peter Singer, Bart Ehrman, Christopher Hitchens, and David Silverman, on issues including whether there can be morality without God, how a benevolent God can allow suffering, the concept of religion in general, and whether Christianity is good for America, among others.

Hitchens died on December 15, 2011, from complications arising from oesophageal cancer, a disease that he acknowledged was likely due to his lifelong predilection for smoking and drinking.

Hitchens was " bowled over " in his adolescence by Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley, Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, R. H. Tawney's critique on Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, and the works of George Orwell.

Hitchens argues that the tactic " has a deplorable effect on both the plot and the dialogue " in that it creates " The need for Rowling to play catch-up with her many convolutions ".

Christopher Hitchens is often mentioned in connection with Cockburn as ideological differences on various issues caused bitter moments between the two men.

In a Counterpunch article in August 2005, Cockburn referred to Hitchens as: " A guy who called Sid Blumenthal one of his best friends and then tried to have him thrown into prison for perjury ; a guy who waited til his friend Edward Said was on his death bed before attacking him in the Atlantic Monthly ; a guy who knows perfectly well the role Israel plays in US policy but who does not scruple to flail Cindy Sheehan as a LaRouchie and anti-Semite because, maybe, she dared mention the word Israel.

Hitchens mentioned that he had recently attended a Cockburn family wedding in which Alexander officiated, and that he and Cockburn used to see each other more frequently when they had both lived on the same coast of the United States.

In the case of Hitchens ' criticisms of Said on his death bed, Hitchens replied, " It's actually rather silly of Alexander to say that ... he's often written counter-obituaries of people who have been overpraised and has chosen precisely the moment when there's a lot of sentimental garbage being published to say, ' come on, this guy wasn't so great!

The author and journalist Christopher Hitchens and the German magazine Stern have alleged that Mother Teresa did not focus the money on alleviating poverty or improving the conditions of her hospices, but on opening new convents and increasing missionary work.

* Eric Alterman and Christopher Hitchens on Bloggingheads, October 12, 2008.

Traditionalist conservative columnist and author Peter Hitchens has written that, " Mr Cameron has abandoned the last significant difference between his party and the established left ", by embracing social liberalism and has dubbed the party under his leadership " Blue Labour ", a pun on New Labour.

Hitchens writes for Britain's The Mail on Sunday newspaper, and describes himself as a Burkean conservative.

Hitchens began on the far left of the political spectrum before moving to the right.

Hitchens joined The Mail on Sunday, where he has a weekly column and weblog in which he debates directly with readers.

In 2011, Hitchens was booed by the audience for a Question Time programme, on which he appears regularly, when he said that sex education was causing teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.

During the same programme, chairman David Dimbleby quoted to Hitchens comments made by John Bercow that The Mail on Sunday was " a bigoted, sexist, homophobic comic strip ".

" Hitchens is also heard on Any Questions ?, This Week, The Daily Politics and The Big Questions.

Hitchens has authored and presented several documentaries on Channel 4, including critical examinations of Nelson Mandela and David Cameron.

Christopher Hitchens was offended by the notion of Clinton as the first black president noting " we can still define blackness by the following symptoms: alcoholic mothers, under-the-bridge habits ... the tendency to sexual predation and shameless perjury about the same ".

Journalist and public intellectual Christopher Hitchens was one of several authors influenced by Orwell's politics and use of language

In Orwell's Victory, Christopher Hitchens argues, " In answer to the accusation of inconsistency Orwell as a writer was forever taking his own temperature.

Why Orwell Matters was published by Christopher Hitchens in 2002.

In an obituary published in The Nation, Christopher Hitchens wrote that Shahak's home was " a library of information about the human rights of the oppressed ", and that The families of prisoners, the staff of closed and censored publications, the victims of eviction and confiscation -- none were ever turned away.

* The Anglo-American writer Christopher Hitchens said of Pilger: " I remember thinking that his work from Vietnam was very good at the time.

Christopher Eric Hitchens ( 13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011 ) was a British American author and journalist whose career spanned more than four decades.

Hitchens was known for his excoriating critiques of various public figures including Mother Teresa, Bill Clinton, Henry Kissinger and Diana, Princess of Wales.

The British-American columnist Christopher Hitchens was famously asked to testify against the beatification of Mother Teresa in 2002, a role he would later describe as being akin to " representing the Evil One, as it were, pro bono ".

" Hitchens responded by standing by his criticism of Sheehan and then defending his deposition to U. S. House of Representatives prosecutors regarding Blumenthal during the impeachment of Bill Clinton and his critical review of Said ’ s book, Orientalism ( Hitchens stating that the review was determined by the 25th anniversary of the book ’ s original publication and not the state of Said ’ s health ).

In an April 2009 interview with C-SPAN's Brian Lamb, Hitchens intimated that his friendship with Cockburn was still intact despite their disagreements.

He was a contemporary of figures including Christopher Hitchens, John Redwood, William Waldegrave, Edwina Currie, Stephen Milligan, John Scarlett, William Blair, Bill Clinton and Gyles Brandreth.

The journalist Christopher Hitchens was one of her most active critics.

Regarding the book's title with its sexual double meaning, Hitchens said, " it was either that or Sacred Cow, and I thought Sacred Cow would be in bad taste.

Wheen was a close friend of the writer Christopher Hitchens.

The documentary was written by a well-known critic of Mother Teresa, Christopher Hitchens, who co-produced it with Tariq Ali.

Future Football Association General Secretary Ted Croker was a Harriers player during the early 1950s, as was future England international striker Gerry Hitchens ( 1953 – 55 ).

He was a contemporary of figures including Christopher Hitchens, Robert Jackson, William Waldegrave, Edwina Currie, Stephen Milligan, John Redwood, William Blair, Bill Clinton and Gyles Brandreth.