Quote of the day

""Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay."

Christopher Hitchens, who's died after a battle with cancer that saw him reflect "I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light".

Here's a initial eulogy from his brother Peter, the Daily Heil columnist with whom he (understandably) had a somewhat "complex relationship" - remarkable for the fact that it finds Hitchens Jr not fulminating away like the priggish, anachronistic prophet of doom he usually is.