Peter Hitchens’ Tribute to Christopher Hitchens

Over at MailOnline, Peter Hitchens (an evangelical Anglican) writes a tribute to his brother Christopher Hitchens, praising his brother’s courage. He writes about their childhood and how the two became closer in Christopher’s final days.

We got on surprisingly well in the past few months, better than for about 50 years as it happens. At such times one tends to remember childhood more clearly than at others, though I have always had a remarkably clear memory of much of mine. I am still baffled by how far we both came, in our different ways, from the small, quiet, shabby world of chilly, sombre rented houses and austere boarding schools, of battered and declining naval seaports, not specially cultured, not book-lined or literary or showy but plain, dutiful and unassuming, we took the courses we did.