Hitches Major & Minor
It’s ten years since Christopher Hitchens died of cancer, in December 2011, aged only 62.
The anniversary reminded me of the year I spent with him and his younger brother, Peter, 60 years ago.
In 1961, aged 21, I was working as an assistant prep-school master at Mount House School on the edge of Dartmoor. Christopher, who scourged the reputations of Mother Teresa, Henry Kissinger, the Clintons and, indeed, God,
