Hitchens vs Branson and a few other odds and ends

You can watch me discussing drug laws with Sir Richard Branson on Thursday night’s Channel Four News here

http://www.channel4.com/news/catch-up/display/playlistref/061212

 

I’m not sure how long this will survive on the web. The item begins at about six minutes in, with a  report from Seattle by Matt Frei. The discussion starts at about 8 minutes 40 seconds.

 

I was struck, watching the Branson visage on an enormous screen, by how many of his mannerisms resembled those of Anthony Blair

 

There is supposed to be an audio version now available of my Bristol debate with Howard Marks, but when i follow the link I can’t get it to work. 

 

Here’s a ‘review’ of my book on drugs by someone called David Bowden, who is apparently a TV columnist.  he sweetly asserts that I provoke ‘surprisingly little bile’. He should look at Twitter during and after C4 news on Thursday evening, if he really thinks that. This strange statement is part of an article which barely addresses the book’s arguments, caricatures them where it does, but spends a lot of time analysing my many undoubted human faults.  

 

http://www.spiked-online.com/site/reviewofbooks_preview/13151/

 

Today’s ‘Daily Politics’, on BBC2, on which I also appeared, doesn’t seem to be available yet on the BBC iplayer.

 We discussed, amongst other things, Northern Ireland and nursing.