An Invitation to Hitchmas (12 April, Manchester)
NOTE (ADDED 22/03/2026): I have been informed by the organisers that this event has been cancelled. Apologies for…
The Ayatollah, Theocratic Fragility, and the Rebellion of Iranian Women
It is a familiar, though no less arresting, spectacle to watch a clerical patriarch draped in the robes…
What Would Hitchens Think?
Christopher Hitchens died at an inauspicious time. He was just shy of the full effects of the Arab…
The Christmas Story
Many well-known ancient characters, both real and fictional, were alleged to be the products of miraculous births, usually…
The clothes have no emperor
Some years ago, I debated a Muslim lecturer at Manchester University (the debate can be viewed here) on…
Christopher Hitchens’s Theory of Historical Progress: A Cruel Moral Calculus
Christopher Hitchens wrote an article in October 1992 for The Nation magazine in which he ran completely counter…