66-658: THES may refer to: Times Higher Education Supplement (now Times Higher Education ), a weekly British magazine based in London Toronto Hydro Electric System , the local distributor of electric power in the City of Toronto Twin Hickory Elementary School , an elementary school in Henrico County, Virginia See also [ edit ] Thes ,
132-545: A Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction . Hitchens met Carol Blue in Los Angeles in 1989 and they married in 1991. Hitchens called it love at first sight. In 1999, Hitchens and Blue, both harsh critics of President Clinton, submitted an affidavit to the trial managers of the Republican Party in the impeachment of Bill Clinton . Therein they swore that their then-friend Sidney Blumenthal had described Monica Lewinsky as
198-401: A fetus was entitled to personhood , while holding ambiguous and changing views on its legality . In a 1988 interview with Crisis Magazine , Hitchens wrote: "It might interest your readers to know that Margaret Thatcher voted to keep capital punishment, to keep homosexuality criminal, to make divorce harder to get, and for the abortion bill. I gather that she's since changed her position on
264-402: A fetus was entitled to personhood , while holding ambiguous, changing views on its legality . He supported gun rights and supported same-sex marriage , while opposing the war on drugs . Beginning in the 1990s, and particularly after 9/11 , his politics were widely viewed as drifting to the right , but Hitchens objected to being called 'conservative'. During the 2000s, he argued for
330-450: A neoconservative , although Hitchens insisted he was not "a conservative of any kind", and his friend Ian McEwan described him as representing the anti-totalitarian left. Hitchens recalls in his memoir having been "invited by Bernard-Henri Lévy to write an essay on political reconsiderations for his magazine La Regle du Jeu . I gave it the partly ironic title: 'Can One Be a Neoconservative?' Impatient with this, some copy editor put it on
396-515: A war correspondent from areas of conflict such as Northern Ireland, Libya, and Iraq. In November 1973, while in Greece, Hitchens reported on the constitutional crisis of the military junta . It became his first leading article for the New Statesman . In December 1977 Hitchens interviewed Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla , a conversation he later described as "horrifying". In 1977, unhappy at
462-471: A 2001 article in The Spectator which allegedly characterised Christopher as a Stalinist . After the birth of Peter's third child, the brothers were reconciled. Peter's review of God Is Not Great led to a public argument between the brothers but no renewed estrangement. In 2007 the brothers appeared as panellists on BBC TV's Question Time , where they clashed on a number of issues. In 2008, in
528-402: A columnist and speaker. His epistemological razor , which states that "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence" is still of mark in philosophy and law. Hitchens's political views evolved greatly throughout his life. Originally describing himself as a democratic socialist , he was a member of various socialist organisations in his early life, including
594-608: A contributing editor of Vanity Fair in 1992, writing ten columns a year. He left The Nation in 2002 after profoundly disagreeing with other contributors over the Iraq War. There is speculation that Hitchens was the inspiration for Tom Wolfe 's character Peter Fallow in the 1987 novel The Bonfire of the Vanities , but others—including Hitchens—believe it to be Spy Magazine ' s "Ironman Nightlife Decathlete", Anthony Haden-Guest . In 1987, Hitchens's father died from cancer of
660-486: A correspondent for the magazine International Socialism , published by the International Socialists, the forerunners of today's British Socialist Workers Party . This group was broadly Trotskyist, but differed from more orthodox Trotskyist groups in its refusal to defend communist states as "workers' states". Their slogan was "Neither Washington nor Moscow but International Socialism". In 1971 after spending
726-586: A foreign correspondent in Cyprus . Through his work there he met his first wife Eleni Meleagrou, a Greek Cypriot , with whom he had two children, Alexander and Sophia. His son, Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, born in 1984, has worked as a policy researcher in London. Hitchens continued writing essay-style correspondence pieces from a variety of locales, including Chad , Uganda and the Darfur region of Sudan . In 1991, he received
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858-586: A house in Oxford. Amis described him at the time as, "handsome, festive [and] gauntly left-wing". Around that time, the Friday lunches began, which were attended by writers including Clive James , Ian McEwan , Kingsley Amis , Terence Kilmartin , Robert Conquest , Al Alvarez , Peter Porter , Russell Davies and Mark Boxer . At the New Statesman Hitchens acquired a reputation as a left-winger while working as
924-491: A new compact between society and the woman. It's a progressive compact because it is aimed at the future generation. It would restrict abortion in most circumstances. Now I know most women don't like having to justify their circumstances to someone. 'How dare you presume to subject me to this?' some will say. But sorry, lady, this is an extremely grave social issue. It's everybody's business. Hitchens allegedly supported gun rights and supported same-sex marriage . Hitchens
990-553: A number, get in line, and kiss my ass. —Christopher Hitchens In 2009 Hitchens was listed by Forbes magazine as one of the "25 most influential liberals in the U.S. media". The article also noted that he would "likely be aghast to find himself on this list", as it reduces his self-styled radicalism to mere liberalism. Hitchens's political perspectives also appear in his wide-ranging writings, which include many dialogues. He said of Ayn Rand 's Objectivism , "I have always found it quaint, and rather touching, that there
1056-726: A positive reaction to his death . Hitchens often accused the Serbian government of committing numerous war crimes during the Yugoslav Wars . He denounced people like Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman , who criticised the NATO intervention there. Hitchens also criticised Croatian president Franjo Tuđman and the policies of the Croatian government, which he saw as reviving " Ustashe formations". Hitchens held complex views on abortion ; being ethically opposed to it in most instances, and believing that
1122-427: A stalker. This allegation contradicted Blumenthal's own sworn deposition in the trial, and it resulted in a hostile exchange of opinion in the public sphere between Hitchens and Blumenthal. Following the publication of Blumenthal's The Clinton Wars, Hitchens wrote several pieces in which he accused Blumenthal of manipulating the facts. The incident ended their friendship and sparked a personal crisis for Hitchens, who
1188-647: A team of talented young reporters to chart the expanding higher education sector, including Peter Hennessy (now Lord Hennessy), David Henke , David Walker, Christopher Hitchens , and Peter Scott , who was appointed editor in 1976. Scott remained editor until 1992, leading a team of journalists that included Robin McKie , John O'Leary (who would later return as editor after a period at The Times ), and Peter David . Other staff reporters in this period included Ngaio Crequer and Judith Judd . Brian Morton , Lynne Truss and Olga Wojtas have established careers as writers. In
1254-731: A year travelling the United States on a scholarship, Hitchens went to work at the Times Higher Education Supplement where he served as a social science correspondent. Hitchens was fired after six months in the job. Next he was a researcher for ITV 's Weekend World . In 1973 Hitchens went to work for the New Statesman , where his colleagues included the authors Martin Amis , whom he had briefly met at Oxford, as well as Julian Barnes and James Fenton , with whom he had shared
1320-720: Is a British magazine reporting specifically on news and issues related to higher education. TPG Capital acquired TSL Education from Charterhouse in a £400 million deal in July 2013 and rebranded TSL Education, of which Times Higher Education was a part, as TES Global. The acquisition by TPG marked the third change of ownership in less than a decade for Times Higher Education, which was previously owned by News International before being acquired by Exponent Private Equity in 2005. In March 2019, private equity group Inflexion Pvt. Equity Partners LLP acquired Times Higher Education from TPG Capital , becoming THE's fourth owners in 15 years. Following
1386-517: Is a movement in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough." Hitchens disagreed with the premise of a Jewish homeland and had said of himself Having long described himself as a socialist and a Marxist, Hitchens began his break from the established political left after what he called the "tepid reaction" of the Western left to the controversy over The Satanic Verses , followed by what he saw as
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#17328527265671452-423: Is less societal pressure for women to practice humour and that "women who do it play by men's rules". Over the following year, Vanity Fair published several letters that it received, objecting to the tone or premise of the article, as well as a rebuttal by Alessandra Stanley . Amid further criticism, Hitchens reiterated his position in a video and written response. In 2007 Hitchens's work for Vanity Fair won
1518-580: Is the editor-at-large , and is responsible for international coverage. He is also the editor of the magazine's World University Rankings. In 2011, Times Higher Education was awarded the titles of "Weekly Business Magazine of the Year" and "Media Business Brand of the Year" by the Professional Publishers Association . In 2019, it was widely rumoured that Elsevier , who already partners with THE in order to compile their university rankings,
1584-610: The ACLU and Greenpeace , as plaintiffs in a lawsuit, ACLU v. NSA , challenging Bush's NSA warrantless surveillance ; the lawsuit was filed by the ACLU. Hitchens was an avid critic of President Slobodan Milošević of Serbia and other Serbian politicians of the 1990s. He called Milošević a " fascist " and a " Nazi " after the Bosnian genocide and ethnic cleansing of Albanians in Kosovo and expressed
1650-578: The National Magazine Award in the category "Columns and Commentary". He was a finalist in the same category in 2008 for some of his columns in Slate but lost out to Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone . Hitch-22 was short-listed for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. He won the National Magazine Award for Columns about Cancer in 2011. Hitchens also served on
1716-625: The New Statesman , Hitchens defected to the Daily Express where he became a foreign correspondent. He returned to the New Statesman in 1978 where he became assistant editor and then foreign editor. Hitchens went to the United States in 1981 as part of an editor exchange programme between the New Statesman and The Nation . After joining The Nation , he penned vociferous critiques of Ronald Reagan , George H. W. Bush and American foreign policy in South and Central America. Hitchens became
1782-701: The Trotskyist International Socialists . Hitchens was critical of aspects of American foreign policy , including its involvement in Vietnam , Chile and East Timor . However, he also supported the United States in the Kosovo War . Hitchens emphasised the centrality of the American Revolution and Constitution to his political philosophy. He held complex views on abortion ; being ethically opposed to it in most instances, and believing that
1848-1063: The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan , endorsed the re-election campaign of US President George W. Bush in 2004 , and viewed Islamism as the principal threat to the Western world. Hitchens described himself as an anti-theist and saw all religions as false, harmful, and authoritarian . He endorsed free expression , scientific scepticism , and separation of church and state , arguing science and philosophy are superior to religion as an ethical code of conduct for human civilisation. Hitchens notably wrote critical biographies of Catholic nun Mother Teresa in The Missionary Position , President Bill Clinton in No One Left to Lie to , and American diplomat Henry Kissinger in The Trial of Henry Kissinger . Hitchens died from complications related to oesophageal cancer in December 2011, at
1914-416: The 100 intellectuals, but the magazines noted that the rankings of Hitchens (5), Noam Chomsky (1), and Abdolkarim Soroush (15) were partly due to their respective supporters' publicising of the vote. Hitchens later responded to his ranking with a few articles about his status as such. Hitchens did not leave his position writing for The Nation until after the 11 September attacks , stating that he felt
1980-477: The 1960s and 1970s. He avoided the recreational drug use of the time, saying "in my cohort we were slightly anti-hedonistic ... it made it very much easier for police provocation to occur, because the planting of drugs was something that happened to almost everyone one knew." Hitchens was inspired to become a journalist after reading a piece by James Cameron . Hitchens was bisexual during his younger days, and joked that as he aged, his appearance "declined to
2046-411: The 1980s, The Thes pioneered comparisons of the reputations of university departments through peer review conducted by consulting academics in the field under scrutiny. Managed by O'Leary, this become the foundation for the league table of United Kingdom universities that was launched under his stewardship as Education Editor of The Times . The Thes was a supporter of the then "binary divide" between
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2112-576: The Christian evangelist Billy Graham as "a self-conscious fraud" and "a disgustingly evil man" and that the evangelist had made a living by They challenged Hitchens's suggestion that Graham went into ministry to make money. They argued that during his career Graham "turn[ed] down million-dollar television and Hollywood offers". They also pointed out that having established the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in 1950, Graham drew
2178-465: The Labour Party at successive General Elections. In 1992 Scott left for academe and was replaced by Auriol Stevens , who was editor until 2002. Under her editorship The Thes strongly supported the case for undergraduate students to contribute to their higher education through tuition fees . The Thes was the first of Rupert Murdoch's UK titles to put its text, archive and job ads on line, although
2244-718: The Public Sphere , collected these works. In Why Orwell Matters , he defends Orwell's writings against modern critics as relevant today and progressive for his time. In the 2008 book Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left , many literary critiques are included of essays and other books of writers, such as David Horowitz and Edward Said . During a three-hour In Depth interview on Book TV , he named authors who influenced his views, including Aldous Huxley , George Orwell , Evelyn Waugh , Kingsley Amis , P. G. Wodehouse and Conor Cruise O'Brien . When asked what
2310-555: The Rise of Capitalism , and the works of George Orwell . In 1968, he took part in the TV quiz show University Challenge . In the 1960s Hitchens joined the political left, drawn by disagreement over the Vietnam War , nuclear weapons, racism and oligarchy, including that of "the unaccountable corporation". He expressed affinity with the politically charged countercultural and protest movements of
2376-700: The Times Higher Education website's student visitors directed to the Studyportals student recruitment platform whenever students look into courses run by universities that THE ranks in its World University Rankings. In 2022, Times Higher Education acquired the Inside Higher Education , an online higher-ed publication company from Quad Partners, a private equity firm. In 2023, it acquired Poets&Quants , an American graduate business education website. In 2024, they signed an agreement with
2442-626: The US, they debated the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the existence of God . In 2010 at the Pew Forum , the pair debated the nature of God in civilisation. At the memorial service held for Christopher in New York, Peter read a passage from St Paul's Epistle to the Philippians . My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, anyplace, anytime. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick
2508-452: The acquisition by the private equity group, Times Higher Education was carved out as an independent entity from TES Global. The investment was made by Inflexion's dedicated mid-market buyout funds. The exclusive advisor for the acquisition by Inflexion was Houlihan Lokey, an investment company which has previously assisted several private equity groups acquire for-profit education al organisations. Post-acquisition, Houlihan Lokey noted that
2574-566: The advisory board of Secular Coalition for America and offered advice to the Coalition on the acceptance and inclusion of nontheism in American life. In December 2011, prior to his death, Asteroid 57901 Hitchens was named after him. Hitchens wrote a monthly essay in The Atlantic and occasionally contributed to other literary journals. One of his books, Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in
2640-616: The age of 62. Hitchens was born in Portsmouth , Hampshire, the elder of two boys; his brother, Peter , became a socially conservative journalist. Their parents, Commander Eric Ernest Hitchens (1909–1987) and Yvonne Jean Hitchens (née Hickman; 1921–1973), met in Scotland when serving in the Royal Navy during World War II. His mother had been a Wren, a member of the Women's Royal Naval Service . She
2706-601: The age of eight, and the Leys School in Cambridge . Hitchens went up to Balliol College, Oxford in 1967 where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics and was tutored by Steven Lukes and Anthony Kenny . He graduated in 1970 with a third-class degree . In his adolescence, he was "bowled over" by Richard Llewellyn 's How Green Was My Valley , Arthur Koestler 's Darkness at Noon , Fyodor Dostoyevsky 's Crime and Punishment , R. H. Tawney 's critique on Religion and
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2772-512: The annual Times Higher Education–QS World University Rankings , which first appeared in November 2004. On 30 October 2009 Times Higher Education broke with Quacquarelli Symonds , then its partner in compiling the Rankings, and signed an agreement with Thomson Reuters to provide the data instead. The magazine developed a new methodology in consultation with its readers and its editorial board and
2838-519: The back of Hitchens's memoir Hitch-22, among the praise from notable figures, Vidal's endorsement of Hitchens as his successor is crossed out in red and annotated "NO, C.H." Hitchens's strong advocacy of the war in Iraq gained him a wider readership, and in September 2005 he was named as fifth on the list of the "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines. An online poll ranked
2904-471: The bottom is a better day's work than any I have ever done." Eric's naval career required the family to move from base to base throughout Britain and its colonies, including to Malta , where Peter Hitchens was born in Sliema in 1951. Eric later worked as a bookkeeper for boatbuilders, speedboat-manufacturers, and a prep school. Hitchens attended two private schools— Mount House School , Tavistock , Devon, from
2970-441: The country of Hungary's Culture and Innovation Ministry which oversees Hungarian higher education for THE to "give an accent to Hungary’s higher education excellence at an international level." State secretary Balázs Hankó, who oversees higher education, said "the goal was to have a Hungarian university among the world’s 100 best by 2030, and at least three among Europe’s top 100." Times Higher Education became known for publishing
3036-669: The cover as 'How I Became a Neoconservative.' Perhaps this was an instance of the Cartesian principle as opposed to the English empiricist one: It was decided that I evidently was what I apparently only thought." Indeed, in a 2010 BBC interview, he stated that he "still [thought] like a Marxist" and considered himself "a leftist". In 2007, Hitchens published one of his most controversial articles titled "Why Women Aren't Funny" in Vanity Fair . While providing no empirical evidence, he argued that there
3102-633: The difference between an autobiography and a memoir was, he replied Hitchens was a visiting professor in the following institutions: Journalist and author Peter Hitchens is Christopher's younger brother by two years. Christopher said in 2005 the main difference between the two is belief in the existence of God. Peter became a member of the International Socialists (forerunners of the modern Socialist Workers' Party ) from 1968 to 1975 (beginning at age 17) after Christopher introduced him to them. The brothers reportedly fell out after Peter wrote
3168-564: The established universities and the polytechnics and the links between the latter and the local education authorities, which ended with the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 . The magazine features a fictional satirical column written by Laurie Taylor , the "Poppletonian", which reflects on life at the fictional Poppleton University. Under Scott's editorship, it stood apart from other titles in Rupert Murdoch's News International in endorsing
3234-547: The existing Times Higher Education team will work to meet the demand for data and branding products, and look at cross-selling to existing clients. From its first issue, on 15 October 1971, until 2008, The Times Higher Education Supplement ( The Thes ) was published weekly in newspaper format and was born out of its sister paper, the Times Educational Supplement (TES) and affiliated with The Times newspaper. Its founding editor, Brian MacArthur , recruited
3300-435: The future of higher education governance, innovation and research. The magazine runs two sets of awards annually, the " Times Higher Education Awards", launched in 2007, and the " Times Higher Education Awards Asia", launched in 2019. The " Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards" (Thelmas) ran from 2011 to 2018. . Christopher Hitchens Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011)
3366-554: The latter. My own vote would have been, as so often, exactly the reverse of hers." However, Hitchens argued that the issue was cynically used by self-described pro-life politicians, and doubted that they sincerely desired to legally prohibit abortion. In the same 1988 interview with Crisis Magazine he stated: Once you allow that the occupant of the womb is even potentially a life, it cuts athwart any glib invocation of "the woman's right to choose" and that: I would like to see something much broader, much more visionary. We need
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#17328527265673432-526: The left's embrace of Bill Clinton and the anti-war movement's opposition to NATO intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s . He later became a so-called liberal hawk and supported the War on Terror , but he had some reservations, such as his characterisation of waterboarding as torture after voluntarily undergoing the procedure. In January 2006, he joined four other individuals and four organisations, including
3498-473: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=THES&oldid=1173582990 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Times Higher Education Times Higher Education ( THE ), formerly The Times Higher Education Supplement ( The Thes ),
3564-523: The magazine had arrived at a position "that John Ashcroft is a greater menace than Osama bin Laden ". The 11 September attacks "exhilarated" him, bringing into focus "a battle between everything I love and everything I hate" and strengthening his embrace of an interventionist foreign policy that challenged " fascism with an Islamic face ". His numerous editorials in support of the Iraq War caused some to label him
3630-459: The oesophagus , the same disease that would later claim his own life. In April 2007, Hitchens became a US citizen; he later stated that he saw himself as Anglo-American . He became a media fellow at the Hoover Institution in September 2008. At Slate , he usually wrote under the news-and-politics column Fighting Words . Hitchens spent part of his early career in journalism as
3696-588: The point where only women would go to bed with [him]." He said he had sexual relations with two male students at Oxford who would later become Tory ministers during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher , although he would not reveal their names publicly. Hitchens joined the Labour Party in 1965, but along with the majority of the Labour students' organisation was expelled in 1967, because of what Hitchens called "Prime Minister Harold Wilson 's contemptible support for
3762-505: The results were published annually from autumn 2010 to 2013, when THE signed a new deal with Elsevier . As well as its THE World University Rankings, Times Higher Education also publishes a number of other rankings: Times Higher Education runs a series of summits, forums and symposiums throughout the year. Chaired by THE 's editorial journalists, these events bring together global leaders and influencers from across academic, government and industry to debate, discuss and drive forward
3828-637: The so-called Eurosceptic movement , describing it as "the British version of fascism ". He went on to say, "Scepticism is a title of honour. These people are not sceptical. They're fanatical. They're dogmatic". Hitchens wrote book-length biographical essays on Thomas Jefferson ( Thomas Jefferson: Author of America ), Thomas Paine ( Thomas Paine's 'Rights of Man': A biography ), and George Orwell ( Why Orwell Matters ). He also became known for excoriating criticisms of public contemporary figures, including Mother Teresa , Bill Clinton , and Henry Kissinger ,
3894-480: The subjects of three full-length texts: The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in theory and practice , No One Left to Lie To: The triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton , and The Trial of Henry Kissinger respectively. Writers Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy published an article in Time in 2007, claiming that Hitchens, while promoting his book God Is Not Great: How religion poisons everything , described
3960-530: The text was at that time behind a subscription wall. Stevens described the move as the "Murdoch empire's canary in the coal mine". With its elder sister publication, the Times Educational Supplement, it was acquired by venture capital group Exponent in October 2005 for £205m. On 10 January 2008, it was relaunched as a magazine, published by TES Global. The magazine is edited by John Gill. Phil Baty
4026-474: The war in Vietnam." Under the influence of Peter Sedgwick , who translated the writings of Russian revolutionary and Soviet dissident Victor Serge , Hitchens forged an ideological interest in Trotskyism and anti-Stalinist socialism. Shortly after, he joined "a small but growing post-Trotskyist Luxemburgist sect" the International Socialists . Hitchens recruited James Fenton to the International Socialists. Early in his career Hitchens began working as
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#17328527265674092-509: Was a British and American author and journalist. He was the author of 18 books on faith, culture, politics and literature. He was born and educated in Britain, graduating in the 1970s from Oxford with a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics . In the early 1980s, he emigrated to the United States and wrote for The Nation and Vanity Fair . Known as "one of the 'four horsemen'" (along with Richard Dawkins , Sam Harris , and Daniel Dennett ) of New Atheism , he gained prominence as
4158-471: Was a supporter of the European Union . In an appearance on C-SPAN in 1993, Hitchens said, "As of 1992, there is now a Euro passport that makes you free to travel within the boundaries of ... member countries, and I've always liked the idea of European unity, and so I held out for a Euro passport. So I travel as a European." Speaking at the launch of his brother Peter Hitchens 's book, The Abolition of Britain , at Conway Hall in London, Hitchens denounced
4224-403: Was of Jewish origin, something Hitchens discovered when he was 38; he came to identify as a Jew. Hitchens often referred to Eric simply as 'the commander'. Eric was deployed on HMS Jamaica , which took part in the sinking of the Scharnhorst in the Battle of the North Cape on 26 December 1943. He paid tribute to his father's contribution to the war: "Sending a Nazi convoy raider to
4290-427: Was planning to take over Times Higher Education completely. In August 2020, Times Higher Education announced partnerships with recruitment agency SI-UK and accommodation provider Casita, signalling its entry into the overseas student recruitment and student housing markets. On 11 September 2020, Netherlands-based Studyportals announced that it had inked an agreement with Times Higher Education , which will see
4356-412: Was stridently criticised by friends for what they saw as a cynical and ultimately politically futile act. Before Hitchens's political shift, the American author and polemicist Gore Vidal was apt to speak of Hitchens as his " dauphin " or "heir". In 2010 Hitchens attacked Vidal in a Vanity Fair piece headlined "Vidal Loco", calling him a "crackpot" for his adoption of 9/11 conspiracy theories . On
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