16 December 2011 Last updated at 13:53 ET Christopher Hitchens: "A great voice falls silent," said Salman Rushdie Tributes have flooded in for the British-born author, literary critic and journalist Christopher Hitchens who has died at the age of 62. He

CHRISTOPHER Hitchens has died. The journalist’s brother, Peter Hitchens, has written a moving eulogy in the Daily Mail. It’s well worth a read. But in every death an opportunity arises. On BBC World At 1, Tariq Ali, a “leading figure of the international

How odd it is to hear of your own brother’s death on an early morning radio bulletin. How odd it is for a private loss to be a public event. I wouldn’t normally dream of writing about such a thing here, and I doubt if many people would expect me to.

Billy Bowden is the greatest umpire ever! Bryant makes it up as he goes along. Whether as Tory, Labour, curate, MP or underpants model, the guy is vastly over-rated. Our bloggers have body mass indexes below thr

As many of you know by now, outspoken atheist Christopher Hitchens died Thursday night at the age of 62. We were deeply saddened to hear of his passing without any public acknowledgement of repentance and trust in the finished work of Christ. Many Christ

I set fire to my Bible on the playing fields of my Cambridge boarding school one bright, windy spring afternoon in 1967. I was 15 years old. The book did not, as I had hoped, blaze fiercely and swiftly. Only after much blowing and encouragement did I ma

His brother Peter Hitchens: "Christopher describes how at the age of nine he concluded that his teacher’s claim that the world must be designed was wrong. "I simply knew, almost as if I had privileged access to a higher authority, that my teacher h

Following the death of Christopher Hitchens, we republish Brendan O’Neill’s interview with him and his brother Peter from 10 years ago. In November 2001, two months after 9/11 and a month after the start of the Afghan War, Brendan O’Neill interviewed bro

CHRISTOPHER Hitchens has died at the age of 62 after his battle with oesophagal cancer. Mr Hitchens, who wrote and spoke often about his illness, was a prolific author, essayist and critic of ideologies, literature and politicians. He was outspoken, part

It can come as no surprise that the Tories get an electoral bounce from The Boy's fantasy veto of a non-existent treaty, with support for the Conservatives rising by seven percentage points to 41 percent, while backing for Labour slipped two points to 39