Difference between revisions of "Max Hastings"
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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
| − | Born in 1945 and educated at Charterhouse and Oxford. Hastings became a foreign correspondent and reported from more than 60 countries and 11 wars. Hastings is famous as the fist journalist to enter Port Stanley during the Falklands War. He went on to become editor of the Daily Telegraph and the London Evening Standard. Now a columnist and President of the Campaign For the Protection of Rural England. [http://www.cpre.org.uk/news-releases/news-rel-2002/27-02.htm] | + | Born in 1945 and educated at Charterhouse and Oxford. Hastings became a foreign correspondent and reported from more than 60 countries and 11 wars. Hastings is famous as the fist journalist to enter Port Stanley during the Falklands War. He went on to become editor of the Daily Telegraph for ten years and then the editor of the London Evening Standard. Now a media columnist and President of the Campaign For the Protection of Rural England. [http://www.cpre.org.uk/news-releases/news-rel-2002/27-02.htm] |
==Pro-Nuclear and Anti-Wind== | ==Pro-Nuclear and Anti-Wind== | ||
Hastings is pro-nuclear and like many in CPRE, anti-wind. "I do have misgivings. But I believe the future must be nuclear", wrote hastings in the Daily Mail in November 2005. [Max Hastings (2005) "Yes, I do Have Misgivings. But I Believe the Future Must be Nuclear", Daily Mail, 30 November, p12] | Hastings is pro-nuclear and like many in CPRE, anti-wind. "I do have misgivings. But I believe the future must be nuclear", wrote hastings in the Daily Mail in November 2005. [Max Hastings (2005) "Yes, I do Have Misgivings. But I Believe the Future Must be Nuclear", Daily Mail, 30 November, p12] | ||
Revision as of 17:24, 9 February 2006
Background
Born in 1945 and educated at Charterhouse and Oxford. Hastings became a foreign correspondent and reported from more than 60 countries and 11 wars. Hastings is famous as the fist journalist to enter Port Stanley during the Falklands War. He went on to become editor of the Daily Telegraph for ten years and then the editor of the London Evening Standard. Now a media columnist and President of the Campaign For the Protection of Rural England. [1]
Pro-Nuclear and Anti-Wind
Hastings is pro-nuclear and like many in CPRE, anti-wind. "I do have misgivings. But I believe the future must be nuclear", wrote hastings in the Daily Mail in November 2005. [Max Hastings (2005) "Yes, I do Have Misgivings. But I Believe the Future Must be Nuclear", Daily Mail, 30 November, p12]
