Max Hastings

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. "For most of us" he continued, wind "turbines are a blight. And it is terrifying to consider that a wind farm the size of Exmoor scarcely matches the generating capacity of a single nuclear plant.[Max Hastings (2005) "Yes, I do Have Misgivings. But I Believe the Future Must be Nuclear", Daily Mail, 30 November, p12]

External Resources

• A Menace To Us All - Max Hastings and Iran, Media Lens, 4 April 2007.