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'''Charles Hilary Moore''' (born 31 October 1956, [[Hastings]]) is an English [[journalist]] and a former editor of ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', ''[[The Sunday Telegraph]]'' and ''[[The Spectator]]''. He still writes for the |
'''Charles Hilary Moore''' (born 31 October 1956, [[Hastings]]) is an English [[journalist]] and a former editor of ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', ''[[The Sunday Telegraph]]'' and ''[[The Spectator]]''. He still writes for the first and last of these publications. |
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The first volume of his authorised biography<ref name="Moore1904">Charles Moore [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/10005886/Radical-egotistical-romantic-innocent-the-real-Margaret-Thatcher.html "Radical, egotistical, romantic, innocent – the real Margaret Thatcher"], telegraph.co.uk, 19 April 2013</ref> of [[Margaret Thatcher]] appeared in April 2013 shortly after she died. |
The first volume of his authorised biography<ref name="Moore1904">Charles Moore [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/10005886/Radical-egotistical-romantic-innocent-the-real-Margaret-Thatcher.html "Radical, egotistical, romantic, innocent – the real Margaret Thatcher"], telegraph.co.uk, 19 April 2013</ref> of [[Margaret Thatcher]] appeared in April 2013 shortly after she died. |
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Charles Hilary Moore (born 31 October 1956, Hastings) is an English journalist and a former editor of The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and The Spectator. He still writes for the first and last of these publications.
The first volume of his authorised biography[1]ofMargaret Thatcher appeared in April 2013 shortly after she died.
Moore is from a Liberal family. His mother was a county councillor for the Liberal Party in Sussex, and his father Richard was a leader writer on the News Chronicle,[2] who unsuccessfully stood for the party at several general elections. While at Eton in 1974, he wrote about his membership of the Liberal faction there in the Eton Chronicle, and also about his taste for 'Real Ale'.[3] During this period he was already a friend of Oliver Letwin. Moore remained a Liberal into his early twenties.[3]
Moore went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was joined by Letwin, and also got to know Nicholas Coleridge.[4] He read English (2.1) and History (2.1) and was awarded a BA in 1979.[5] By now an advocate of architectural conservation, he became an admirer of the work in this field of (then) poet laureate Sir John Betjeman.[6]
In 1979 he joined The Daily Telegraph as a political correspondent,[4] and, after a short period on the 'Peterborough' gossip column, was writing leaders within two years by the age of 24.[3] In 1982 Moore wrote a pamphlet for the Salisbury Group, entitled The Old People of Lambeth (1982).[7]
Two years after joining The Spectator as a political columnist, he became the magazine's editor in 1984, remaining there until 1990. Moore co-edited A Tory Seer: The Selected Journalism of T.E. Utley, which was published in 1989.
Following The Spectator, he edited The Sunday Telegraph from 1992 to 1995. Near the start of this period, around the time of the publication of the Andrew Morton book, Diana: Her True Story, he appeared on Newsnight to discuss the marital difficulties of the Prince and Princess of Wales. To the astonishment of presenter Jeremy Paxman, Moore said, that because he wished to protect the monarchy: "I believe in the importance of concealment in these matters and, if you like, hypocrisy."[3]
Moore became editor of The Daily Telegraph in 1995. In 2001, his signed editorial "A Free Country"[8] gained some notice elsewhere in the media.[9] In this article, he argued in favour of hunting, pornography, the right to employ whom we choose, the right to trial by jury and advocated the legalisation of cannabis.[8] He blamed a decline in 'freedom' on the controls imposed during the second world war, and on Margaret Thatcher: "If you've been in office for a long time you always start to believe in having more power, and she undoubtedly got that disease."[9]
Owing to falling circulation, there had been speculation by 2003[10] about Moore's future prior to his resignation in the autumn of that year.[11] Moore had been editor when stories about politician George Galloway,[10][12]which led to a successful libel action from the MP, had been published. The newspaper had falsely claimed that Galloway received payments from Saddam Hussein's regime.[13]
Moore is a vehement critic of the BBC, which he believes has a left-wing anti-Thatcherite bias.[11][14] Moore was fined £262 for not possessing a TV licence in May 2010,[15] eighteen months after announcing that he would donate the amount payable as a television licence to Help the Aged because the BBC had failed to sack Jonathan Ross for his "Sachsgate" prank with Russell Brand.[16] He saw the episode as part of an on-going "pathology" at the BBC, rather than being an isolated incident.[16]
In December 2009, regarding The Beano character Lord Snooty, also his Private Eye nickname,[9] Moore thought that "he is the ideal role model for David Cameron."[17] In 2011, after the News International phone hacking scandal became public knowledge, he wondered if the Left had been right all along, not only in their objection to Rupert Murdoch's power, but also whether the"'the free market' is actually a set-up."[18]
Moore currently writes for two of the publications he once edited, The Spectator and The Daily Telegraph. He is Chairman of Policy Exchange.
Following the death of Margaret Thatcher on 8 April 2013, during his appearance on the Question Time programme three days later, Moore criticised the BBC for giving too much publicity to the Thatcher critics who were celebrating her death. Menzies Campbell accused Moore of suffering from "a persecution complex".[19] On the day of the funeral of Margaret Thatcher, 17 April, Moore stated that parts of the country showing enmity were considered "relatively less important".[20]
He had left his post as editor of The Daily Telegraph in 2003 to spend more time writing Margaret Thatcher's authorised biography.[1][11] Always intended to be published after her death, the first volume, entitled Not For Turning, was published shortly after the funeral of Mrs Thatcher.[14]
He married Caroline Baxter (whom he had met at university) during 1981[10]inTunbridge Wells. The couple have two children. Moore converted to Roman Catholicism following the Church of England's decision to allow the ordination of women priests.[21][22] His wife, a former English don at Cambridge University, chose not to make such a move and remains an Anglican.[23] Moore is the founder-chairman of the Rectory Society which is dedicated to preserving past and present parsonages.[6]
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