For a newspaper man, Hitchens seems to have forgotten what makes a story newsworthy. The first soldier deaths in Afghanistan were extensively reported. Many news pages were devoted to their plight, there was national grief. But 8 years and 150 deaths later, deaths in Afghanistan are less newsworthy because of there unfortunate regularity. Maybe when the leader of the opposition loses his 150th child, not as much fuss will be made.
Hitchens also moans about PMQs being suspended. As this is essentially a cameron/Brown duel, it is pointless to continue without Cameron. I suspect if PMQs had gone ahead, and Brown wiped the floor with an under prepared and grieving oppostion, then he would have been accused of taking politic advantage from Cameron's personal tragedy.
I am not a Cameron fan, but I believe he has been brilliant over his son's disability. It is true he has used his family in his publicity, but rather than hide Ivan, he was always in the pictures. This was not to exploit his diability, more an attempt to show how normal it is, how anyone can be struck by it. For me, Cameron gained some respect for this stance.
As for Hitchens, he specialises in taking a different view from the rest of us, whether he is deliberately trying to be controversial, or just likes the attention his alternative view gets him, I'll let you decide.