Friends of Hitchens are remembering him for our benefit.
Francis Wheen is. First there’s the unfathomably rude awakening -
Waking yesterday morning to the news of Christopher Hitchens’s death, I was gratified to hear it given second place in the Today programme’s 7am bulletin. The gratification ended moments later when the BBC reporter described him as a journalist, an atheist “and an alcoholic”.
“No he bloody wasn’t!” I yelled at the radio.
He also reported that stupidity at Facebook (and named the reporter). Nick Cohen said “I’ll do him.” I hope he does.
On to the better stuff.
… Read the restHe was a heavy drinker (“No argument about that,” he would say with a throaty chuckle on those rare occasions when
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