Hitchens opposed the Kosovo and 2003 Iraq Wars, on the grounds that neither was in the interests of either Britain or the United States, and opposes the British military presence in Afghanistan, arguing that it is has no achievable aim.

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.

Hitchens argues that among other calculations, Clinton was attempting to change the subject from the ongoing Gennifer Flowers sex scandal.

Hitchens worked for the Daily Express between 1977 and 2000, initially as a reporter specialising in education and industrial and labour affairs, then as a political reporter, and subsequently as Deputy Political Editor.

Hitchens contends the modern Labour Party was formed by struggles in the 1980s and a programme of " social liberalism, egalitarian education and the sexual revolution " envisaged in the 1950s by figures such as Anthony Crosland and Roy Jenkins.

Hitchens views comprehensive education, the Plowden reforms, and modern child-centred teaching methods as misguided egalitarian political projects that have diluted educational standards and decreased social mobility.

In order to address these issues, Hitchens advocates a return to academically selective grammar schools.

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.

Hitchens condemns Mother Teresa for having used contributions to open convents in 150 countries rather than establishing the teaching hospital toward which her donors expected that she would apply their gifts.

Hitchens portrays Mother Teresa's organization, the Missionaries of Charity, as a cult which has promoted suffering to further its own financial ends and does not help those in need.

" In 1996, The New York Times published a favourable review by Bruno Maddox in which he says: " Mr. Hitchens, a columnist at Vanity Fair and The Nation, is rather convincing " and " Hitchens argues his case with consummate style ".

Prospect received worldwide attention in October 2005 when it published its list of the world's top 100 public intellectuals, which included Noam Chomsky, Umberto Eco, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and Christopher Hitchens.

In 2009, Hitchens wrote of this period, " Against the Labour Party, which I knew to be penetrated by all manner of Marxists, and soaked in the ideas of the revolutionaries, it was increasingly necessary to support the Tories.

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

In 2010 Michael Gove, writing in The Times, asserted that, for Hitchens, what is more important than the split between the Left and the Right is " the deeper gulf between the restless progressive and the Christian pessimist ", and in 2010 Hitchens himself wrote " in all my experience in life, I have seldom seen a more powerful argument for the fallen nature of man, and his inability to achieve perfection, than those countries in which man sets himself up to replace God with the State ".

Hitchens, a former atheist, is a member of the Church of England and an advocate of moral virtues founded on Christian faith and institutions such as marriage, which he argues have since the 1960s been undermined by social liberals and cultural Marxists.

Hitchens advocates a society governed by conscience and the rule of law, which he sees as the best guarantee of liberty.

Christopher Hitchens wrote that " Mark Steyn believes that demography is destiny, and he makes an immensely convincing case ," then went on to detail many points at which he disagrees with Steyn.

Becoming a journalist in 1990, he rose to the position of Assistant Editor of The Observer newspaper which he joined in 2000 after having worked with Peter Hitchens and Peter Oborne as Media Editor for Daily Express editor Rosie Boycott, and the London Evening Standard under editor and mentor Max Hastings, who like him had left Oxford after two years, and other magazines.

His later campaigns and writing were mainly centred around the formation of a ' World Guard ' a neutral volunteer force ( initially ) to police Palestine and the partitioned India, and to be at the disposal of the United Nations, which Christopher Hitchens credits as the genesis of the UN Peacekeeping forces.

Author and political commentator Peter Holding called Hitchens ' analogy " hysterical, unfair and offensive ," adding that " some of the criticism directed towards Moore's film displays the very same characteristics for which Moore's film has been criticised ".

" Hitchens was subsequently invited to appear on Joe Scarborough's MSNBC talk show, Scarborough Country, at which point a tape recording of his debate with Moore at the Telluride Film Festival in 2002 was replayed.

Christopher Hitchens points to a statement by former counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke when interviewed by The Hill newspaper in May 2004, in which " he, and he alone, took the responsibility for authorizing Saudi departures.

In the book, which addresses the leadership techniques of Hitler and Churchill, he delivered a rebuttal to many of the assertions made by Clive Ponting and Christopher Hitchens concerning Churchill.

Christopher Hitchens published The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, a pamphlet which repeated many of the accusations in the documentary.

Christopher Hitchens described Mother Teresa's organization as a cult which promoted suffering and did not help those in need.

Christopher Hitchens, though a vocal critic of Islam himself, wrote in his review in the Atlantic Monthly, that " it is a sort of primer in how not to write about Muslims ", and noted that it resembled earlier anti-Semitic texts which depicted Jews as vermin.

Nevertheless, Hitchens stayed in Italy for nine years ( a record which still stands in the Guinness Book of records ), also playing for Torino, Atalanta and Cagliari.

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

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 ".

On Europe, Hitchens argues that the United Kingdom should negotiate an amicable departure from the European Union, whose laws and traditions he regards as incompatible with the laws and liberties of England, and with the national independence of the United Kingdom as a whole.

The series, however, now deals with a wide range of contemporary issues including illicit affairs, drug abuse, rape, and civil partnerships, inviting criticism from conservative commentators such as Peter Hitchens that the series has become a vehicle for liberal and left-wing values and agendas, with characters behaving out of character to achieve those goals.

Literary and national editor Benjamin Schwarz oversees that section and has recruited numerous writers, including Christopher Hitchens, Caitlin Flanagan, Sandra Tsing Loh, Clive James, Joseph O ' Neill, B. R.

Peter Hitchens has written that Profumo " vanished into London's East End for 40 years, doing quiet good works ".

He often writes and discusses Christian apologetics and has debated against prominent atheists and skeptics, including Christopher Hitchens, Peter Singer, Daniel Dennett, Michael Shermer, and Bart Ehrman.

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.

Christopher Hitchens in God is Not Great has argued that " Modern vernacular describes conscience-not too badly-as whatever it is that makes us behave well when nobody is looking ... Those who believe that the existence of conscience is a proof of a godly design are advancing an argument that simply cannot be disproved because there is no evidence for or against it.

Cockburn has also been highly critical of his former friend and colleague, Christopher Hitchens.

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!

After the conclusion of the letter, Hitchens notes: " Mr. Turley has received no reply to his letter.

Working for the newspaper has proved to be an effective apprenticeship for many prominent journalists at the onset of their careers, including Gary Bushell the brothers Christopher and Peter Hitchens.

Christopher Hitchens described it as the funniest book of the second half of the 20th century, and Toby Young has judged it the best comic novel of the 20th century.

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 has also written for The Spectator and The American Conservative magazines,

After his appearance, Hitchens wrote " Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?

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

In 2009, Anthony Howard wrote of Hitchens, " the old revolutionary socialist has lost nothing of his passion and indignation as the years have passed us all by.

Hitchens has said of his reputation: " I know a lot of people consider me to be disreputable or foaming at the mouth, but you have to learn not to care, or at least not to mind.