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Auberon Alexander Waugh (November 17, 1939 – January 16, 2001) was a British author and journalist. 17 November is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece, coinciding with the anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising. ...
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Life and career
Born at his maternal grandparents' house at Pixton Park, Dulverton, Somerset, he was known as "Bron" by friends and family. He was the second child and first son of the novelist Evelyn Waugh and his wife, Laura (née Herbert). Born just as war broke out, he hardly saw his father until he was five. He was educated at the Benedictine Downside School in Somerset before beginning a PPE degree at Christ Church, Oxford, where he held an exhibition in English. However, he was rusticated (suspended for unsatisfactory performance) by the academic authorities, and chose not to return to the university, preferring to make an early start in journalism. Dulverton is a village in the heart of West Somerset, England, near the border with Devon. ...
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A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ...
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Downside School is a Roman Catholic Public School in Stratton-on-the-Fosse near Bath, situated next to Downside Abbey. ...
PPE can stand for: Property, plant, and equipment in accounting. ...
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At the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, an exhibition is a financial award or grant to an individual student, normally on grounds of merit. ...
Rustication is a term used at British universities, particularly Oxford University and Cambridge University, for a disciplinary action consisting of a temporary expulsion from the university. ...
During his National Service, he was commissioned into the Royal Horse Guards and served in Cyprus, where he was almost killed in a machine gun accident. Annoyed by a fault in the machine gun on his armoured car, he seized the end of the barrel and shook it, accidentally triggering the mechanism so that the gun fired several bullets through his chest. As a result of his injuries, he lost his spleen, one lung, several ribs, and a finger, and suffered from pain and recurring infections for the rest of his life. While recuperating from the accident in Italy, he began his first novel, The Foxglove Saga. National service is a common name for compulsory or voluntary military service programs. ...
The Royal Horse Guards (RHG) was a Household Cavalry regiment of the British Army. ...
A machine gun is a fully-automatic firearm that is capable of firing bullets in rapid succession. ...
The spleen is an organ of the upper abdomen, where it functions in the destruction of old red blood cells and holding a reservoir of blood. ...
Respiratory system The lungs flank the heart and great vessels in the chest cavity. ...
Journalistic career Waugh began his journalistic career in 1960 as a cub reporter on Peterborough, the social/gossip column of the Daily Telegraph. In the long and prolific career that followed he wrote for The Spectator, New Statesman, British Medicine and various newspapers (including the Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, Evening Standard and The Independent). From 1981 to 1990 he wrote a leader-page column for The Sunday Telegraph. This article deals with The Daily Telegraph in Britain, see The Daily Telegraph (Australia) for the Australian publication The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. ...
This article is about the British weekly magazine: there are articles on several other magazines called The Spectator such as Addison and Steeles influential literary magazine, The Spectator (1711), and the others can be found at The Spectator (disambiguation). ...
The New Statesman is a left-of-centre political weekly published in London. ...
Alternate newspaper: The Daily Mirror (Australia) The Daily Mirror is a popular British tabloid daily newspaper. ...
The Daily Mail is a British newspaper, a tabloid, first published in 1896. ...
Headlines of the Evening Standard on the day of London bombing on July 7, 2005, in Waterloo Station The Evening Standard is a British tabloid newspaper published and sold in London and surrounding areas of southeast England. ...
The Independent is a British compact newspaper published by Tony OReillys Independent News & Media. ...
This article deals with The Daily Telegraph in Britain, see The Daily Telegraph (Australia) for the Australian publication The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. ...
His work as political columnist on The Spectator coincided with the war in Biafra, a mainly Catholic province that had tried to secede from Nigeria. Waugh strongly criticized Harold Wilson's government, especially the foreign secretary Michael Stewart, for colluding in the use of mass starvation as a political weapon. He was sacked from The Spectator in 1970, but with the support of Bernard Levin and others, he won damages for unfair dismissal in a subsequent action. A columnist is a journalist who produces a specific form of writing for publication called a column. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and the Internet. ...
This article is about the British weekly magazine: there are articles on several other magazines called The Spectator such as Addison and Steeles influential literary magazine, The Spectator (1711), and the others can be found at The Spectator (disambiguation). ...
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James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was one of the most prominent British politicians of the 20th century. ...
The Right Honourable Captain Robert Maitland Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham, PC (November 6, 1906, Bromley - March 13, 1990) was a British Labour politician who served twice as Foreign Secretary in the first cabinet of Harold Wilson. ...
(Henry) Bernard Levin CBE (August 19, 1928 - August 7, 2004) was an English journalist, author and broadcaster. ...
He was opposed to the reforms of the Second Vatican Council and criticized the Church that emerged from it. He was often critical of Archbishops Basil Cardinal Hume and Derek Worlock. The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, or Vatican II, was an Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church opened under Pope John XXIII in 1962 and closed under Pope Paul VI in 1965. ...
Basil Cardinal Hume, OSB OM (2 March 1923 - 17 June 1999) was the Archbishop of Westminster and Primate of England and Wales from 1976-1999. ...
Derek John Harford Worlock CH (February 4, 1920 – February 8, 1996) was Archbishop of Liverpool. ...
In 1990 he returned to the Daily Telegraph as the successor of Michael Wharton (better known as "Peter Simple"), writing the paper's long-running Way of the World column three times a week until December 2000. In 1995 he finally ended his long association with The Spectator, but in 1996 he rejoined The Sunday Telegraph, where he remained a weekly columnist until shortly before his death. Michael Bernard Wharton (born Michael Bernard Nathan) (April 19, 1913 – January 23, 2006) was a newspaper columnist writing under the pseudonym Peter Simple in the British Daily Telegraph since 1955, when he started writing the Way of the World column three times a week. ...
Private Eye Waugh became most famous for his Private Eye Diary, which ran from the early 1970s until 1985, and which he described as "specifically dedicated to telling lies". He fitted in well with the Eye, which had the political ethos of "balls to the lot of them", although he made clear his particular dislike of the Labour government of the 1970s. The education secretary Shirley Williams became an especial hate figure because of her support for comprehensive education. In his autobiography Will This Do?, Waugh claimed that he had broken two bottles of wine by banging them together too hard to celebrate when she lost her seat in the House of Commons. Private eye may mean: Look up Private eye on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Private Eye a fortnightly British satirical magazine-newspaper, edited by Ian Hislop (as of 2005) A private investigator, a private detective for hire (see also crime fiction and detective fiction) Private Eye, a song by Alkaline Trio...
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The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left in the United Kingdom. ...
The Baroness Williams of Crosby Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, PC (born July 27, 1930), is a British politician. ...
A Comprehensive school is a type of school providing secondary level education in England or Wales. ...
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Waugh was a candidate at the 1979 election, indulging another of his pet hates, former Liberal Leader Jeremy Thorpe, who was about to stand trial for conspiracy to murder in a scandal that Waugh had helped expose. It was alleged that Thorpe had links to an incident in which a man called Norman Scott, who claimed to have had an affair with Thorpe, had seen his dog shot dead. Waugh stood against Thorpe for the Dog Lovers' Party and Thorpe obtained an injunction against Waugh's election literature. Waugh polled only 79 votes, but Thorpe lost his seat. This article is about the historic Liberal Party. ...
John Jeremy Thorpe (born April 29, 1929) is a British politician, who was leader of the Liberal Party from 1967 to 1976. ...
A scandal is a widely publicized incident involving allegations of wrong-doing, disgrace, or moral outrage. ...
Waugh left Private Eye in 1986 when Ian Hislop succeeded Richard Ingrams as editor. Hislop on the set of Have I Got News for You singing a Jimmy Somerville song Ian Hislop (born 13 July 1960) is the editor of British satirical magazine Private Eye, a team captain on the popular satirical current affairs quiz Have I Got News for You and a comedy...
Richard Ingrams (born 1937) was the second editor of British satirical magazine-cum-newspaper, Private Eye, taking over from Christopher Booker. ...
Waugh's views Waugh broadly supported Margaret Thatcher in her first years as prime minister, but by 1983 he became disillusioned by the Government's economic policy, which he felt used the destructive economics and cultural ideas of the New Right. When Thatcher became a strong public opponent of his friend and Sunday Telegraph editor Peregrine Worsthorne, Waugh became a staunch opponent of her. Her closeness to Andrew Neil, editor of The Sunday Times, whom Waugh despised, further confirmed his view. Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925), is the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in office from 1979 to 1990. ...
New Right is used in several countries as a descriptive term for various forms of conservative, right-wing, or self-proclaimed dissident oppositional movements and groups that emerged in the mid- to late twentieth century. ...
Sir Peregrine Gerard Worsthorne (born December 22, 1923) is a British Conservative journalist, writer and broadcaster. ...
Andrew Ferguson Neil (born May 21, 1949, Paisley) is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster. ...
The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International which is in turn owned by News Corporation. ...
Waugh tended to be identified with a defiantly anti-progressive, small-c conservatism, opposed to "do-gooders" and social progressives. Three days after his death at age 61 from heart disease, journalist Polly Toynbee in The Guardian (see [1]) vituperatively attacked him for these views. Polly Toynbee (born Mary Louisa Toynbee on December 27, 1946) is a journalist and writer with social democratic views in the United Kingdom, and has since 1998 been a highly influential columnist for The Guardian newspaper. ...
The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ...
The Tobacco Advisory Council of the UK organised for a pro-smoking book to be ghosted for either Bernard Levin or Auberon Waugh. [2]. Neither columnist agreed to put their name to it, but Waugh wrote a foreword endorsing the book and hitting out at the anti-smoking lobby: "Let us hope this book strikes a blow against the new control terrorists," he said. He also posed for photos, with a cigarette prominently in his hand.[3]
Waugh's public persona encompassed the complex role of snobbish sophisicate and critic of the British middle class's cultural proletarianisation; and opponent of the general Americanisation of Britain, exemplifed by the sale of the land and property in the English shires to American businessmen. // General Proletarianization is a concept in Marxism and Marxist sociology. ...
To a traditional Tory, these were some of the most deplorable aspects of the Thatcher years. However there was a certain amount of public posturing in his popular anti-Americanism; he visited the USA whenever he could, and spent a lot of time holidaying in New England and on US speaking tours.[4] [5] The term Tory (from Irish Gaelic tóraighe, an outlaw or guerrilla fighter, during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms — literally meaning pursued man) applied to the Tory Party, the ancestor of the modern UK Conservative Party. ...
Waugh had a house in France and, despite his conservatism, was a fervent supporter of European integration and the single currency, which he saw as a means of de-Americanising the UK. He said that his ideal government would be a "junta of Belgian ticket inspectors".[6] In modern usage, junta (pronounced as in Spanish HUN-ta or HOON-ta) typically refers to a military dictatorship, especially in Latin America, which is officially run by a committee of high-ranking military officers. ...
Other ways in which he did not conform to reactionary stereotypes was in his strong opposition to the death penalty, and in his antipathy towards the police force in general (especially when they sought to prevent drink-driving; Waugh believed strongly that this was not as serious a problem as it is widely believed to be, and referred to the anti-drink-driving campaign as the "police terror"). He opposed anti-smoking legislation (despite a delicate heart condition that killed him prematurely) and in his later years he was highly critical of Labour attempts to ban fox hunting. In 1995 he fervently opposed attempts by the then Home Secretary Michael Howard to introduce a national identity card, a policy which at the time was (ironically, considering later developments) opposed by the Labour opposition. Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted criminal by the state as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offences. ...
Drink driving or drinking and driving is the act of operating a motor vehicle after having consumed alcohol (ethanol) or other drugs, to the degree that mental and motor skills are impaired. ...
The cigarette is the most common method of smoking tobacco. ...
A fox hunt Fox hunting is a form of hunting for foxes using a pack of scent hounds. ...
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The Secretary of State for the Home Department, commonly known as the Home Secretary, is the minister in charge of the United Kingdom Home Office and is responsible for internal affairs in England and Wales, and for immigration and citizenship for the whole United Kingdom (including Scotland and Northern Ireland). ...
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Enabling legislation for the British national identity card was passed under the Identity Cards Act 2006 [1]. The multi-billion pound scheme [2] has yet to enter procurement. ...
The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left in the United Kingdom. ...
Waugh held, or affected to hold, the eccentric view that, while the dangers of smoking (especially passive smoking) and drinking were exaggerated, the dangers of hamburger eating were seriously under-reported; he frequently referred to "hamburger gases" as a serious form of atmospheric pollution and even made references to the dangers of "passive hamburger eating". He even said that computer games "produce all the symptoms and most known causes of cancer", though his tongue was probably in his cheek when he made those comments. Tobacco smoke used to fill the air of Irish pubs before the smoking ban came into effect on March 29, 2004 Passive smoking (also known as secondhand smoking, involuntary smoking, or exposure to environmental tobacco smoke - or ETS exposure) occurs when the smoke from one persons burning tobacco product...
For other uses, see Hamburger (disambiguation). ...
A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ...
Waugh has been called a nostalgist and a romantic, with a strong tendency towards snobbery, although his anarchistic streak ensured that he retained the admiration of a surprising number of people whom he would have considered horribly "progressive" or "leftish", including Francis Wheen who vociferously disagreed with the comments made by Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee following his death.[7] A snob, guilty of snobbery or snobbism, is a person who imitates the manners, adopts the world-view and apes the lifestyle of a social class of people to which that person does not by right belong. ...
Francis James Baird Wheen (born January 22, 1957) is a British writer and journalist, who was educated at Harrow School and Royal Holloway College, University of London. ...
Polly Toynbee (born Mary Louisa Toynbee on December 27, 1946) is a journalist and writer with social democratic views in the United Kingdom, and has since 1998 been a highly influential columnist for The Guardian newspaper. ...
Auberon Waugh married, in 1961, Lady Teresa Onslow, daughter of the 6th Earl of Onslow. The couple — with their two sons and two daughters — eventually moved to his father's old house, Combe Florey, Somerset. Lady Teresa Lorraine Waugh (née Onslow) (born 26 February 1940) is a British novelist and translator. ...
William Arthur Bampfylde Onslow, 6th Earl of Onslow KBE MC TD (11 June 1913–3 June 1971) was a British peer and soldier. ...
Combe Florey is a village and parish in Somerset, England, situated six miles north west of Taunton in the Taunton Deane district. ...
Literary career Waugh wrote five novels before giving up writing fiction, partly in protest at the inadequate money authors received from public lending rights at libraries and partly because he knew he would always be compared unfavourably to his father. The five novels are: Fiction (from the Latin fingere, to form, create) is storytelling of imagined events and stands in contrast to non-fiction, which makes factual claims about reality. ...
A Public Lending Right program is one which pays authors for having works in public libraries. ...
A modern-style library in Chambéry A library is a collection of information resources and services, organized for use, and maintained by a public body, institution, or private individual. ...
- The Foxglove Saga (1960)
- Path of Dalliance (1963)
- Who Are The Violets Now? (1965)
- Consider the Lilies (1968)
- A Bed of Flowers (1972).
He also wrote a book about the Thorpe case, The Last Word. He made several programmes for ATV in the 1970s, and was interviewed by Anthony Howard in 1991 for the Thames TV documentary Waugh Memorial. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
Anthony Michell Howard (born February 12, 1934) is a prominent British journalist, broadcaster and writer. ...
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From 1986 until his death he also edited the Literary Review magazine, where he organised awards for what he called "real" (i.e. rhyming and scanning) poetry, and also a Bad Sex Award for the worst description of sex in a novel. He also opined on many and varies topics. For example, in a leader piece for the Review in 1991 he commented upon sceptic James Randi´s rubbishing on British television of the supposed art of dowsing for water. Waugh noted that, although he had no great interest in the subject, as a matter of fact he lived in a house which had a well sunk through seventy feet of rock on nothing more than the advice of a dowser. Literary Review was founded in 1979 for people who love reading. ...
The Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award is an award given annually to the author who produces the worst description of a sex scene in a novel. ...
Skepticism (Commonwealth spelling: Scepticism) can mean: Philosophical skepticism - a philosophical position in which people choose to critically examine whether the knowledge and perceptions that they have are actually true, and whether or not one can ever be said to have absolutely true knowledge; or Scientific skepticism - a scientific, or practical...
James Randi (born August 7, 1928), stage name The Amazing Randi, is a stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a debunker of pseudoscience. ...
A dowser, from an 18th century French book about superstitions. ...
Death Like his parents, Laura who died at 57 and Evelyn who died at 62, Auberon Waugh died relatively young: he died of heart disease at the age of 61. He is buried in Combe Florey, Somerset. Heart disease is an umbrella term for a number of different diseases which affect the heart. ...
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