how to lose friends and alienate people by toby young

Although entitled to use the style The Hon. His mother Sasha (1931–1993), daughter of Raisley Stewart Moorsom, a descendant of Admiral Sir Robert Moorsom, who fought at the Battle of Trafalgar, was a BBC Radio producer, artist and writer, and his father was Michael Young (later Lord Young of Dartington), a Labour life peer and pioneering sociologist who coined the word meritocracy. Early life īorn in Buckinghamshire, Young was brought up in Highgate, North London, and in South Devon. In 2020, press regulator Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) found Young to have promoted misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic in a Daily Telegraph column. In early January 2018, he was briefly a non-executive director on the board of the Office for Students, an appointment from which he resigned within a few days after Twitter posts, described as 'misogynistic and homophobic', were uncovered. In 2015, he wrote an article in advocacy of genetically engineered intelligence, which he described as 'progressive eugenics'. Young has been at the centre of several controversies. A proponent of free schools, Young co-founded the West London Free School and served as director of the New Schools Network. He also served as a judge in seasons five and six of the television show Top Chef.

He then went on to write for The Sun on Sunday, the Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph, and The Spectator. His 2001 memoir, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, details his subsequent employment at Vanity Fair. He edited it until financial difficulties led to its demise in 1995. Ī graduate of the University of Oxford, Young briefly worked for The Times, before co-founding the London magazine Modern Review in 1991. He is the founder and director of the Free Speech Union, an associate editor of The Spectator, and a former associate editor at Quillette. Toby Daniel Moorsom Young (born 17 October 1963) is a British social commentator.

How to lose friends and alienate people by toby young