Hitchens' Human Side

Inhaling recent issues of Vanity Fair, as I am, I'm naturally drawn to Christopher Hitchen's articles on everything from dentistry to Britishness. Readers of VF would have noticed over the past months that Hitchens is doing his merry best to lose all aspects of what makes him quintessentially British. In December's issue he had his back, sack, and crack waxed, and had his teeth replaced. There I was thinking Hitchens has merely altered the visual stereotypes that pigeon-hole Britons as a nation, only to be lambasted as a hobbyist, eccentric, simpleton, exploited by witty comedy like Fawlty Towers in his January article on Britishness. Well, the above maybe true, but that doesn't stop Hitchens being as British as an Etonian schoolboy with a frumpy blazer and a floppy haircut, sans chin. Good on you for trying Chris - I can't wait for next month's edition.