Michael Toner (journalist)
Michael Toner (born 1944) is a British journalist. He was political editor, diplomatic correspondent and leader writer at the Sunday Express,[1][2] chief leader writer on the Daily Mail until 2006,[3] a political author[4] and novelist.[5][6][7][8][9][9][10][11][12][13][14]
Life
Toner was born in Bedfordshire in 1944[15] and educated at Bedford Modern School and the University of Cambridge.[8][16] He began his career in journalism at the Stoke Sentinel before moving to the Sunday Express[17] where, in 1981, he interviewed Margaret Thatcher with fellow Express journalist Keith Renshaw.[18][19][20] He became leader writer of the Sunday Express[1][2] where he covered many of the controversial topics of the 1980s and 1990s including articles about the IRA, Britain Fumes at U.S. Over I.R.A. Guns,[21] the miners’ strike,[22] the Falklands War,[23] child abuse[24] and the war crime allegations involving Kurt Waldheim.[25] David Alton described Toner's approach to Alton's anti-abortion bill as "thorough and fair".[26]
Following his period at the Sunday Express, Toner became Chief Leader Writer at the Daily Mail, a position he held until 2006 when Tom Utley succeeded him to the role.[3]
Toner’s first published work, The Bluffer’s Guide To The EU, has run to several editions encapsulating the changing nomenclature of that institution.[4][27][28][29] He published his first novel, Seeing the Light, in 1997.[30][31][32]
Bibliography
- Seeing the Light. Published by Simon & Schuster, London, 1997[7][30]
- The Bluffer’s Guide To The EU. Michael Toner with Christopher White and Lee Rotherham. Published by Oval, London, 1999[28][33]
- Bluff Your Way In the City[34]
References
- ^ a b "MT Engagement Diary". margaretthatcher.org. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ a b "Regulating The Press". google.com. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ a b "Media Lens :: View topic - Leader writers in the UK press". medialens.org. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ a b "Bluff your way in the European Community". worldcat.org. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ "Toner, Michael". worldcat.org. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ http://fc95d419f4478b3b6e5f-3f71d0fe2b653c4f00f32175760e96e7.r87.cf1.rackcdn.com/C6140EA02F9E4771B11B429097375978.pdf
- ^ a b "Seeing the Light". google.co.uk. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ a b School of the Black & Red, A History of Bedford Modern School, A.G. Underwood (1981)
- ^ a b "The Case of Peter Pan, Or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction". google.co.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ "Benn's Press Directory". google.co.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ "Regulating The Press". google.co.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ "David Waddington Memoirs". google.co.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ "Vacher's Parliamentary Companion". google.co.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ "The Moral Status of Children". google.co.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ England & Wales, Birth Index, 1916-2005
- ^ "Bluff Your Way in the EEC". google.co.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ "Way We Were: Roger Jones and his recollections of The Sentinel newspaper in Stoke-on-Trent". Stoke Sentinel. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ "Interview for Sunday Express". margaretthatcher.org. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ "The Battle for Bermondsey". google.co.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ "Five at 10". google.co.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ "Irish-America and the Ulster Conflict, 1968-1995". google.co.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ "IRIS News". google.co.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ "The Sydney Morning Herald - Google News Archive Search". google.com. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
- ^ "Crime and the media". google.co.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ "Kurt Waldheim". google.co.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ David Alton. "ISSUU - Whose Choice Anyway by David Alton". Issuu. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
- ^ "Bluff your way in the EEC". worldcat.org. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ a b "The bluffer's guide to the E.U." worldcat.org. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ "315041383". viaf.org. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ a b "Seeing the light". worldcat.org. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ "Toner, Michael". loc.gov. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ "Books: A week in books". The Independent. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
- ^ "The Bluffer's Guide to the E.U." google.co.uk. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ "Bluff Your Way in the City (The Bluffer's City Collection)". LibraryThing.com. Retrieved 2 June 2015.