was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge and Magdalen, Oxford. He saw active service during the Second World War. He was a leader writer and foreign correspondent on The Times 1948-53, The Daily Telegraph 1953-1961 and from 1961-1985 on the The Sunday Telegraph; and was editor of The Sunday Telegraph 1985-1991. He is the author of The Socialist Myth, 1972, Tricks of Memory, 1993 and Democracy needs Aristocracy, 2004. He was given a Knighthood in 1991 on the recommendation of Mrs Thatcher.
