Christopher Hitchens, hangman, Heller and Hay

My last sight of Christopher Hitchens at a public meeting was during the Hay Festival a decade ago when, slowly, deliberately and very visibly he staged a one-man walk out during the foreign policy section of a speech by Bill Clinton.

My first ever sight of Christopher Hitchens (in public or in private) was at the Oxford Union four decades ago when he led  a noose-wielding attack on the lesser figure of the British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart, deemed then to be excessively uncritical o...