Anthony Michell Howard (born February 12, 1934) is a prominent British journalist, broadcaster and writer. He was formerly editor of the New Statesman and deputy editor of The Observer. 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The New Statesman is a left-of-centre political weekly published in London. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

Life and career

The son of a Church of England clergyman Canon Guy Howard, he was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, University of Oxford, where he was chairman of the Oxford University Labour Club in 1954 and President of the Oxford Union the next year. The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and acts as the mother and senior branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion. ... Motto: Dat Deus Incrementum Westminster School (in full, The Royal College of St. ... Christ Church, called in Latin Ædes Christi (i. ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Oxford Union Societys Victorian (new) debating chamber Oxford Union The Oxford Union Society, commonly referred to simply as the Oxford Union, is a private debating society whose membership is drawn primarily from the University of Oxford. ...

Howard planned on a career as a Barrister, being called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1956 while fulfilling his National Service obligations in the army, during which he saw active service in the Suez War. He "stumbled" in to his career as a journalist in 1958 on Reynold's News as political correspondent, moving to the Manchester Guardian the following year. In 1960 he was awarded a Harkness scholarship to study in the United States, though remaining on the Guardian’s staff. Barristers: traditional dress. ... The Inner Temple is one of the four Inns of Court around the Royal Courts of Justice in London, England, to which barristers belong and where they are called to the bar. ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... National Service was the name given to the system of military conscription employed in the United Kingdom (although excluding Northern Ireland) between 1949 and 1960. ... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ... HM Ships Eagle, Bulwark, and Albion of the British Royal Navy. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

He was political correspondent of the New Statesman from 1961 until 1964. In January 1965 Howard joined the Sunday Times as its Whitehall correspondent, which turned out to be an unfortunate career move, as it was a post in advance of accepted practices at the time.[1] He was then appointed the Observer’s chief Washington correspondent (1966-69), later contributing a political column (1971-72). The New Statesman is a left-of-centre political weekly published in London. ... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... The Sunday Times is the name of several Sunday newspapers. ... Whitehall, London, looking south towards the Houses of Parliament For other places with the same name see Whitehall (disambiguation) Whitehall is a road in London, the capital of the United Kingdom, running two-thirds of the distance from Trafalgar Square towards Parliament Square; the other third constitutes Parliament Street. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ...

As editor of the New Statesman (1972-78), succeeding Richard Crossman, whose deputy he had been (1970-72), he appointed Robin Cook as the magazine's parliamentary adviser in 1974,[2] (Cook also contributed articles), James Fenton, Christopher Hitchens and Martin Amis as literary editor in 1977. Under Howard, the magazine published a rare non-British contributor: Gabriel García Márquez in March 1974, on the overthrow of Salvador Allende's elected government in Chile the previous September. Perhaps out of a sense of mischief, he featured a series of diatribes against the British Left, by the journalist and historian Paul Johnson, whose rightward drift was well advanced by then. Howard was unable to halt the magazines fall in circulation, however. He then edited The Listener for two years (1979-81). The New Statesman is a left-of-centre political weekly published in London. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Richard Howard Stafford Crossman (15 December 1907 to April 1974) was a British politician and writer. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Robin Cook, December 1997 The Right Honourable Robert Finlayson Cook, MA usually called Robin Cook (February 28, 1946 – August 6, 2005), was a politician in the British Labour Party. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... James Fenton (born 1949, Lincoln, England) has been, at various times, a journalist, poet, literary critic, and professor. ... Christopher Hitchens Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949, England) is a journalist, author, and literary critic. ... Photo of Martin Amis by Robert Birnbaum Martin Amis (born in Oxford, August 25, 1949) is an English novelist and son of Sir Kingsley Amis. ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... Gabriel García Márquez Gabriel José García Márquez (born March 6, 1928) is a Colombian novelist, journalist, publisher, and political activist. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... Salvador Allende Gossens1 (July 26, 1908–September 11, 1973) was President of Chile from 1970 until his death during the violent coup détat of 1973. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms that refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially but not exclusively in the American sense of the word... There have been several well-known people named Paul Johnson: Paul Johnson (artist) Paul Marshall Johnson, Jr. ... The Listener was a weekly magazine established by the BBC under Lord Reith in January 1929. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Howard was deputy editor of The Observer (1981-88), where one of his journalist protégés was the journalist and (later novelist) Robert Harris, who he appointed as the newspaper's political editor. His professional relationship with the then editor, Donald Trelford, ultimately broke down over allegations that Trelford had allowed the newspaper’s then proprietor Tiny Rowland to interfere in the papers editorial content. After leaving The Observer, following an ill-fated editorial coup against Trelford, he was a reporter on Newsnight and Panorama (1989-92), having previously presented Channel Four’s Face the Press (1982-85). His last editorial positions before turning freelance were at The Times as Obituaries editor (1993-99) and Chief Political Book Reviewer (1990-2004); he continues to contribute opinion columns to the newspaper. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Robert Harris is a British TV reporter and author, born in 1957 in the town of Nottingham. ... Roland Tiny Rowland (1917 - 1998) was a British businessman and chairman of the Lonrho conglomerate from 1962 to 1994. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Newsnight is a British daily news analysis, current affairs and politics programme broadcast between 22. ... Panorama is a long-running current affairs documentary series on BBC television, launched on 11 November 1953 and focusing on investigative journalism. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Channel 4 is a public service television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Howard assisted Michael Heseltine on his memoirs, Life in the Jungle: My Autobiography (2000), and more recently published an official biography Basil Hume: The Monk Cardinal (2005), despite being a self-confessed agnostic. Michael Heseltine walks out of the cabinet meeting having resigned, January 9, 1986 The Right Honourable Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine, CH, PC (born March 21, 1933), is a British Conservative politician and businessman. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... George Basil Cardinal Hume (2 March 1923 - 17 June 1999), Archbishop of Westminster, (Head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales) (1976-1999) Born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1923 to a Scottish father and French Catholic mother. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Agnosticism is the philosophical and theological view that the existence of God, gods or deities is either unknown or inherently unknowable. ...

A convivial and avuncular man, he is regularly interviewed on radio and television, as his long career enables him to present contemporary events in a longer perspective than most other commentators can attain. Anthony Howard married Carol Anne Gaynor in 1965 and was awarded the CBE in 1997. He lives in London and Shropshire. 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions, in decreasing order of seniority: Knight or Dame Grand... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Bibliography

• Richard Crossman (Anthony Howard (ed)) (1979) Diaries of a Cabinet Minister: Selections, 1964-70 Hamish Hamilton
• Philip French & Michael Sissons (1963) The Age of Austerity Hodder & Stoughton [reprinted by OUP 1986 (contributed chapter "'We Are the Masters Now'" (on the Attlee government) pp. 1-20)]
• Stephen Glover (ed) (1999) Secrets of the Press: Journalists on Journalism Allen Lane [(reprinted as The Penguin Book of Journalism: Secrets of the Press Penguin 2000) contributed chapter "Dealing with Mr Murdoch" pp. 260-71)
• Michael Heseltine (2000) Life in the Jungle: My Autobiography Hodder & Stoughton [acknowledged assistance]
• Anthony Howard (2005) Basil Hume: The Monk Cardinal Headline Books
• Anthony Howard (1990) Crossman: The Pursuit of Power Jonathan Cape
• Anthony Howard (1987) Rab: Life of R.A. Butler Jonathan Cape
• Anthony Howard and Richard West (1965) The Making of the Prime Minister Jonathan Cape [USA edition: The Road to Number 10 Macmillan 1965]
• Anthony Howard (ed) (1993) Lives Remembered: "Times" Obituaries, The Blewbury Press
• John Raymond (ed) (1960) The Baldwin Age, Eyre & Spottiswoode [contributor]

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External link

• Childe Harold: New Statesman article from 1964 on the newly elected government of Harold Wilson (December 6, 1999 reprint).