Rhodesian-born British political theorist
Callinicos's mother, the Honorable Ædgyth Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, was the daughter of the 2nd Lord Acton, descended from the 19th-century English historian Lord Acton. [1]
Callinicos was educated at St George's College, Salisbury... student at Balliol College, Oxford, He also received his DPhil at Oxford. In 1977, Callinicos married Joanna Seddon,[1] a fellow Oxford doctoral student.
Sometimes you grow up in the belly of the beast and come out as one of its fiercest critics.
That said...
Yeah, please see yourself to the door.
Where they friends? Or did they just know each other through the radical student movements there? At hat time Hitchens was still larping as a revolutionary Marxist.