Charles Moore - Revision history

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No such thing as Islamophobia

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 ==No such thing as Islamophobia==
-Charles Moore 'believes that Islamaphobia is a construction invented in order to attract money from government' writes Peter Oborne.
+Charles Moore 'believes that Islamophobia is a construction invented in order to attract money from government' writes Peter Oborne.
 In a Spectator article, Moore wrote that: 'Muslim bodies attracting government grants obviously have an interest in there being as many incidents as possible, so that 'perception' tends to extend well beyond reality. If we must have these phobias, why not Sikhophobia and indeed, Christianophobia? Collection of these numbers would lead to the arrest of a lot of Muslims, so I suppose it is ruled out as being Islamaphobic.' '<ref> Peter Oborne, [http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/time-tory-right-709511774 After Finsbury: Time for the UK's right-wing press to address its Islamophobia], Middle East Eye, 14 July 2017, accessed 24 January 2018 </ref>

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 In his capacity as chair of [[Policy Exchange]], Moore heavily criticised the BBC after Newsnight broadcast a report in December 2007 questioning the evidence behind the think tank's report, [[The Hijacking of British Islam]].
-<blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">"Thinking that such a report was a serious public issue that could advance well under the "flagship's" full mast and sail, Policy Exchange had originally offered it to Newsnight exclusively.<p>"Newsnight's people were enthusiastic, but on the late afternoon of the intended broadcast, they suddenly changed their tune.</p><p>"Policy Exchange had offered them many of the receipts it had collected from mosques as evidence of purchase; now they said that they had shown the receipts to mosques and that there were doubts about the authenticity of one or two of them.</p><p>"Given that the report was being published that night, the obvious thing for Newsnight to do was to broadcast Policy Exchange's findings at once, allowing the mosques to have their say about the receipts. <ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/12/15/do1501.xml  Newsnight told a small story over a big one], Daily Telegraph, 15 December, 2007. </ref></p></blockquote>
+<blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">"Thinking that such a report was a serious public issue that could advance well under the "flagship's" full mast and sail, Policy Exchange had originally offered it to Newsnight exclusively.<p>"Newsnight's people were enthusiastic, but on the late afternoon of the intended broadcast, they suddenly changed their tune.</p><p>"Policy Exchange had offered them many of the receipts it had collected from mosques as evidence of purchase; now they said that they had shown the receipts to mosques and that there were doubts about the authenticity of one or two of them.</p><p>"Given that the report was being published that night, the obvious thing for Newsnight to do was to broadcast Policy Exchange's findings at once, allowing the mosques to have their say about the receipts. <ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/12/15/do1501.xml  Newsnight told a small story over a big one], Daily Telegraph, 15 December 2007. </ref></p></blockquote>
 ==BBC Licence Fee Protest==
-After controversial comments made by Russel Brand and Jonathan Ross on their BBC Radio 2 programme in October 2008, Moore protested by refusing to pay the TV Licence fee. In May 2010 Moore was fined £262 at Hastings magistrates' court. He expressed concern in the ''Daily Telegraph'' that the licence fee was having an adverse affect on the poor in Britain who could not afford the licence but for whom 'telly is one of their few pleasures'. <ref>Charles Moore, '[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/7709065/The-BBCs-worst-scandal-lies-in-our-courts.html The BBC's worst scandal lies in our courts]', ''Daily Telegraph'', 11 May 2010.</ref>
+After controversial comments made by Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross on their BBC Radio 2 programme in October 2008, Moore protested by refusing to pay the TV Licence fee. In May 2010 Moore was fined £262 at Hastings magistrates' court. He expressed concern in the ''Daily Telegraph'' that the licence fee was having an adverse affect on the poor in Britain who could not afford the licence but for whom 'telly is one of their few pleasures'. <ref>Charles Moore, '[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/7709065/The-BBCs-worst-scandal-lies-in-our-courts.html The BBC's worst scandal lies in our courts]', ''Daily Telegraph'', 11 May 2010.</ref>
 ==Peterhouse==
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 Writing in the ''Daily Telegraph'', Moore blamed the Brixton riots not on poverty and racism but on 'poorly planned mass immigration'. <ref>Charles Moore, '[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/charlesmoore/8410373/Things-the-BBC-didnt-tell-us-about-the-Brixton-riots.html Things the BBC didn't tell us about the Brixton riots]', ''Daily Telegraph'', 28 March 2011.</ref> Following the broadcasting of a BBC Radio 4 'Reunion' programme on the riots, he criticised the choice of guests writing:
-<blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">Who was missing? There were no women witnesses. A woman might have given an interesting account of the lawless neighbourhood where sexist young West Indian men, often dealing drugs, ruled the streets through intimidation. There were no shopkeepers – the people with whom [[Margaret Thatcher|Mrs Thatcher]], to much mockery, sympathised. One of them could have explained how they were looted, burnt out, and in some cases, assaulted. There were no policemen defending the force's actions (though [Brian] Paddick inserted the odd, bleating qualification to the general tide of denunciation). And there were no ordinary white (or indeed, black) residents of Brixton present to describe the fear, crime and disorder that had come to the once-peaceful community because of poorly planned mass immigration. <ref>Charles Moore, '[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/charlesmoore/8410373/Things-the-BBC-didnt-tell-us-about-the-Brixton-riots.html Things the BBC didn't tell us about the Brixton riots]', ''Daily Telegraph'', 28 March 2011.</ref></blockquote>
+<blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">Who was missing? There were no women witnesses. A woman might have given an interesting account of the lawless neighbourhood where sexist young West Indian men, often dealing drugs, ruled the streets through intimidation. There were no shopkeepers – the people with whom [[Margaret Thatcher|Mrs Thatcher]], too much mockery, sympathised. One of them could have explained how they were looted, burnt out, and in some cases, assaulted. There were no policemen defending the force's actions (though [Brian] Paddick inserted the odd, bleating qualification to the general tide of denunciation). And there were no ordinary white (or indeed, black) residents of Brixton present to describe the fear, crime and disorder that had come to the once-peaceful community because of poorly planned mass immigration. <ref>Charles Moore, '[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/charlesmoore/8410373/Things-the-BBC-didnt-tell-us-about-the-Brixton-riots.html Things the BBC didn't tell us about the Brixton riots]', ''Daily Telegraph'', 28 March 2011.</ref></blockquote>
 ==Affiliations==
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 ==Notes==
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-[[Category:Journalists|Moore,Charles]][[Category:Old Etonians|Moore, Charles]]
+[[Category:Journalists|Moore,Charles]][[Category:Old Etonians|Moore, Charles]][[Category:Islam Critics|Moore, Charles]]

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 Writing in the ''Daily Telegraph'', Moore blamed the Brixton riots not on poverty and racism but on 'poorly planned mass immigration'. <ref>Charles Moore, '[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/charlesmoore/8410373/Things-the-BBC-didnt-tell-us-about-the-Brixton-riots.html Things the BBC didn't tell us about the Brixton riots]', ''Daily Telegraph'', 28 March 2011.</ref> Following the broadcasting of a BBC Radio 4 'Reunion' programme on the riots, he criticised the choice of guests writing:
-<blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">Who was missing? There were no women witnesses. A woman might have given an interesting account of the lawless neighbourhood where sexist young West Indian men, often dealing drugs, ruled the streets through intimidation. There were no shopkeepers – the people with whom Mrs Thatcher, to much mockery, sympathised. One of them could have explained how they were looted, burnt out, and in some cases, assaulted. There were no policemen defending the force's actions (though Paddick inserted the odd, bleating qualification to the general tide of denunciation). And there were no ordinary white (or indeed, black) residents of Brixton present to describe the fear, crime and disorder that had come to the once-peaceful community because of poorly planned mass immigration. <ref>Charles Moore, '[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/charlesmoore/8410373/Things-the-BBC-didnt-tell-us-about-the-Brixton-riots.html Things the BBC didn't tell us about the Brixton riots]', ''Daily Telegraph'', 28 March 2011.</ref></blockquote>
+<blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">Who was missing? There were no women witnesses. A woman might have given an interesting account of the lawless neighbourhood where sexist young West Indian men, often dealing drugs, ruled the streets through intimidation. There were no shopkeepers – the people with whom [[Margaret Thatcher|Mrs Thatcher]], to much mockery, sympathised. One of them could have explained how they were looted, burnt out, and in some cases, assaulted. There were no policemen defending the force's actions (though [Brian] Paddick inserted the odd, bleating qualification to the general tide of denunciation). And there were no ordinary white (or indeed, black) residents of Brixton present to describe the fear, crime and disorder that had come to the once-peaceful community because of poorly planned mass immigration. <ref>Charles Moore, '[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/charlesmoore/8410373/Things-the-BBC-didnt-tell-us-about-the-Brixton-riots.html Things the BBC didn't tell us about the Brixton riots]', ''Daily Telegraph'', 28 March 2011.</ref></blockquote>
 ==Affiliations==

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 ==Views on race, religion and multi-culturalism==
-Writing in the ''Daily Telegraph'', Moore blamed the Brixton riots not on poverty and racism but on 'poorly planned mass immigration'. <ref>Charles Moore, '[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/charlesmoore/8410373/Things-the-BBC-didnt-tell-us-about-the-Brixton-riots.html Things the BBC didn't tell us about the Brixton riots]', ''Daily Telegraph'', 28 March 2011.</ref> Following the broadcasting of a BBC Radio 4 'Reunion' programme he criticised the choice of guests writing:
+Writing in the ''Daily Telegraph'', Moore blamed the Brixton riots not on poverty and racism but on 'poorly planned mass immigration'. <ref>Charles Moore, '[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/charlesmoore/8410373/Things-the-BBC-didnt-tell-us-about-the-Brixton-riots.html Things the BBC didn't tell us about the Brixton riots]', ''Daily Telegraph'', 28 March 2011.</ref> Following the broadcasting of a BBC Radio 4 'Reunion' programme on the riots, he criticised the choice of guests writing:
 <blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">Who was missing? There were no women witnesses. A woman might have given an interesting account of the lawless neighbourhood where sexist young West Indian men, often dealing drugs, ruled the streets through intimidation. There were no shopkeepers – the people with whom Mrs Thatcher, to much mockery, sympathised. One of them could have explained how they were looted, burnt out, and in some cases, assaulted. There were no policemen defending the force's actions (though Paddick inserted the odd, bleating qualification to the general tide of denunciation). And there were no ordinary white (or indeed, black) residents of Brixton present to describe the fear, crime and disorder that had come to the once-peaceful community because of poorly planned mass immigration. <ref>Charles Moore, '[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/charlesmoore/8410373/Things-the-BBC-didnt-tell-us-about-the-Brixton-riots.html Things the BBC didn't tell us about the Brixton riots]', ''Daily Telegraph'', 28 March 2011.</ref></blockquote>

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 ==Peterhouse==
 Moore's wife [[Caroline Moore]] (aka [[Caroline Baxter]]) was the first female Fellow of [[Peterhouse, Cambridge]]. In the preface to the 1990 edition of his book ''Mill and Liberalism'' [[Maurice Cowling]] writes that this is ‘of no significance’ since she ‘is a literary critic or historian rather than a politician’. He adds that ‘''[[The Spectator]]'' maintains under Mr Moore… a far blander position than a ‘New Right’ label might suggest.’ <ref>Maurice Cowling, ''Mill and Liberalism'' (Cambridge University Press, 1990) p.xxxii</ref>
 ==Affiliations==

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 *Chairman - [[Policy Exchange]]
 *Member - [[British American Project]]
 *[[Friends of the Union]]
 *[[Oliver Letwin]], friend from school and university

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 ==Biography==
-Charles Moore was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with an MA in History. He became friends with [[Oliver Letwin]] at [[Eton]]. Peter Oborne writes:
+Charles Moore was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with an MA in History. He met [[Oliver Letwin]] at [[Eton]] and according to Peter Oborne
 <blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">They became firm friends and later attended Trinity College, Cambridge where they shared the set of rooms - G3 in New Court -that were occupied by Arthur Hallam in the 19th century and remembered by Tennyson in his great poem 'In Memoriam'. Charles Moore came from a well-known Liberal family. Moore's mother at one stage - perhaps still does - blamed Letwin for turning her son into a Tory. <ref>Peter Oborne, '[http://www.spectator.co.uk/spectator/thisweek/9515/letwin-intellectual.thtml Letwin intellectual]', ''The Spectator'', 24 November 2001; p.18</ref></blockquote>

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 Charles Moore was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with an MA in History. He became friends with [[Oliver Letwin]] at [[Eton]]. Peter Oborne writes:
-<blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">They became firm friends and later attended Trinity College, Cambridge where they shared the set of rooms - G3 in New Court -that were occupied by Arthur Hallam in the 19th century and remembered by Tennyson in his great poem 'In Memoriam'. Charles Moore came from a well-known Liberal family. Moore's mother at one stage - perhaps still does - blamed Letwin for turning her son into a Tory. <ref>Peter Oborne, '[http://www.spectator.co.uk/spectator/thisweek/9515/letwin-intellectual.thtml Letwin intellectual]', ''The Spectator'', 24 November 2001; p.18</ref></p></blockquote>
+<blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">They became firm friends and later attended Trinity College, Cambridge where they shared the set of rooms - G3 in New Court -that were occupied by Arthur Hallam in the 19th century and remembered by Tennyson in his great poem 'In Memoriam'. Charles Moore came from a well-known Liberal family. Moore's mother at one stage - perhaps still does - blamed Letwin for turning her son into a Tory. <ref>Peter Oborne, '[http://www.spectator.co.uk/spectator/thisweek/9515/letwin-intellectual.thtml Letwin intellectual]', ''The Spectator'', 24 November 2001; p.18</ref></blockquote>
 <blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt"> He began his career in journalism in 1979 on the ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'' and between 1984 and 1989 was appointed Editor of the ''[[Spectator]]'' magazine.<p>In 1992 he became Deputy Editor of the ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'' and between 1992 and 1995 was also Editor of the ''[[Sunday Telegraph]]''. Between 1995 and 2003 Charles Moore was Editor of the ''[[Daily Telegraph]]''. From 2003 he has been Group Consulting Editor and a columnist with the ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'', as well as a columnist for the ''[[Spectator]]''.</p><p>At the present time Charles Moore is working on the authorised biography of [[Margaret Thatcher|Baroness Thatcher]].</p><p>Charles Moore is married to Caroline Baxter and they have a twin son and daughter. <ref> [https://extranet.buckingham.ac.uk/alumnet/graduationHon-07.aspx Graduation: Honorary Graduates 2007], The University of Buckingham: AlumNet.</ref></p></blockquote>