Cameron responded by calling Hitchens a " maniac ".

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

Why Orwell Matters was published by Christopher Hitchens in 2002.

According to the journalist Christopher Hitchens, Ekéus " told me that he'd been offered by Tariq Aziz in person, to his face, a bribe of a million and a half dollars to change his inspection report.

* Malraux: A Life ( 2005 ) by Olivier Todd ( ISBN 0375407022 ) Review by Christopher Hitchens

* The Coastline by Simon Hitchens

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.

In the 1960s, Hitchens joined the political left, drawn by his anger over the Vietnam War, nuclear weapons, racism, and " oligarchy ", including that of " the unaccountable corporation ".

* Minority Report ( 1982 to 2002 ) by Christopher Hitchens

* 1956 — Paintings by Ivon Hitchens, John Bratby, Derrick Greaves, Edward Middleditch, and Jack Smith.

Amongst the many authors published by Allen & Unwin are Alex Miller, Christos Tsiolkas, Garth Nix, Jodi Picoult, Kate Morton, Michael Connelly, Thomas Keneally, Peter Corris, Paul Keating, Stephanie Dowrick and Christopher Hitchens.

The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice is a book by Christopher Hitchens about Mother Teresa's life and work.

Hitchens also includes the contents of a letter written to Mother Teresa by the man prosecuting the case against Keating, Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles Paul Turley.

" 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 ".

* Mommie Dearest-Slate article by Hitchens about Mother Teresa

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In 2012, Hitchens announced he was once more considering standing as a member of parliament and called for British citizens to form " small exploratory committees in existing constituencies, under the ‘ Justice and Liberty ’ motto ".

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.

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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 ".

Joe Scarborough alleges that Moore has ducked criticism and dodged interviews from both himself and Hitchens.

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.

In the same interview, Lamb and Hitchens discussed Cockburn's scathing remarks about Hitchens criticisms of Said and Sheehan.

Hitchens felt the intervening years had justified his criticisms of Sheehan, and expressed that " it's beneath Alexander to be defending someone as cheap and demagogic as her ".

After Oxford, he found an entry-level job at The Times Literary Supplement, and at age 27 became literary editor of the New Statesman, where he met Christopher Hitchens, then a feature writer for The Observer, who remained a close friend until Hitchens's death in 2011.

Contemporaries and friends at York included the future journalists Linda Grant and Peter Hitchens, the latter then a prominent member of the International Socialists.

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.

The story though was broken by Peter Hitchens, then of the Daily Express.

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.

" Host Joe Scarborough agreed with Hitchens and criticised Moore for inconsistency, accusing him of " hypocrisy " for assuming bin Laden is innocent one minute " and yet, in this movie, at the very beginning, he criticizes George Bush for not assuming the bin Laden family is somehow guilty, then letting them out of the country.

Earlier in his journalistic career, like Hitchens, he had written for Socialist Worker, the weekly paper of the British trotskyist group then known as the International Socialists.

The writer Christopher Hitchens, in particular, devotes much of a chapter of his book on Clinton, No One Left to Lie To, for what he regards as the immorality of the then Democratic candidate's decision to condone, and take political advantage of, Rector's execution.

Other major recent speakers include California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, California Attorney General Kamala Harris, former secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice, George Shultz, James Baker, and Madeleine Albright ; California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner ; authors Christopher Hitchens, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Greg Mortenson ; microcredit entrepreneur and Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus ; historian Victor Davis Hanson ; airline pilot Chesley Sullenberger ; CIA Director Leon Panetta ; former U. S. Comptroller General and Peter Peterson Foundation President David Walker, and business leaders Richard Kovacevich and David O ' Reilly.

The Case of Henry Kissinger ", debate between O ' Sullivan and Christopher Hitchens over whether former U. S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger's foreign policy involved war crimes.

Critics of U. S. policy in Chile at the time, including journalist Christopher Hitchens, have accused former U. S. National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger of conspiring with Viaux in the murder of General Schneider.

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.

Christopher Hitchens represents conspiracy theories as the " exhaust fumes of democracy ", the unavoidable result of a large amount of information circulating among a large number of people.

* 2011 – Christopher Hitchens, Prolific Columnist ( b. 1949 )

Dennett is referred to as one of the " Four Horsemen of New Atheism ", along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens.

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

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In The Abolition of Britain, Peter Hitchens says: “ What Americans describe with the casual phrase.

For some conservatives, such as Peter Hitchens, Jenkins ' reforms remain objectionable.

In his book The Abolition of Britain Hitchens accuses him of being a " cultural revolutionary " who takes a large part of the responsibility for the decline of " traditional values " in Britain.

* April 13 – Christopher Hitchens, English-American writer ( d. 2011 )

** Ivon Hitchens, English painter ( d. 1979 )

* December 15 – Christopher Hitchens, British-American writer ( b. 1949 )

Christopher Hitchens referred to himself as an Epicurean.

Author Christopher Hitchens wrote in 12 August 2007 edition of The New York Times that, in the final book, Voldemort " becomes more tiresome than an Ian Fleming villain.

Writer Christopher Hitchens, when asked for his favorite Bible story replied “ Casting the first stone ” is a lovely story, even though we ’ ve found out how much it wasn ’ t in the Bible to begin with.

Christopher Hitchens wrote that Irving sang the rhyme to Hitchens ' wife, Carol Blue and daughter, Antonia, in the elevator following dinner in the family's Washington apartment.

He became a well-known activist in international circles, co-authoring papers and giving joint speaking engagements with American political dissident Noam Chomsky, and winning plaudits from Jean Paul Sartre, Gore Vidal, Christopher Hitchens and Edward Said.

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.

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.