Anthony Michell Howard (born 12 February 1934) is a prominent British journalist, broadcaster and writer. He was the editor of the New Statesman, The Listener and the deputy editor of The Observer. He edited the Crossman Diaries.
The son of a Church of England clergyman, Canon Guy Howard, he was educated at Highgate School and Westminster School and Christ Church, University of Oxford, where he was chairman of the Oxford University Labour Club in...
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Anthony Michell Howard (born 12 February 1934) is a prominent British journalist, broadcaster and writer. He was the editor of the New Statesman, The Listener and the deputy editor of The Observer. He edited the Crossman Diaries.
The son of a Church of England clergyman, Canon Guy Howard, he was educated at Highgate School and 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 following year.
Howard had planned on a career as a barrister, having been 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, but he "stumbled" in to his career as a journalist in 1958, starting on Reynolds News as a political correspondent. Howard moved to the Manchester Guardian in 1959. The year after, he was awarded a Harkness scholarship to study in the United States, though he remained on...
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