In a 23-year career at the Daily Express, Mr Hitchens served as a foreign correspondent in both Moscow and Washington before becoming one of the paper’s leading columnists. Since 2000, Mr Hitchens has written a weekly column for the Mail on Sunday. He has been described as "a forceful, tenacious, eloquent and brave journalist” and was awarded the Orwell Prize in 2010.
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