11 Facts About Matthew d'Ancona

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Matthew Robert Ralph d'Ancona was born on 27 January 1968 and is an English journalist and editor-at-large of The New European.

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Matthew d'Ancona won an essay-writing competition run by The Observer on the subject of the future of British industry.

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Matthew d'Ancona went to Magdalen College at the University of Oxford, where he took the top First in Modern History for his year in 1989.

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Matthew d'Ancona joined The Sunday Telegraph in 1996 as deputy comment editor and columnist, before becoming deputy editor.

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Matthew d'Ancona wrote a weekly political column in The Sunday Telegraph for a decade; the column was "treated as the best insight into Cameronism by Conservative MPs".

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Matthew d'Ancona succeeded Boris Johnson as editor of The Spectator.

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On 28 August 2009 it was announced that Matthew d'Ancona would be stepping down as editor to be replaced by Fraser Nelson.

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Matthew d'Ancona has written three novels, Going East, Tabatha's Code and Nothing to Fear.

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In January 2015, Matthew d'Ancona joined The Guardian as a weekly columnist.

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Matthew d'Ancona writes columns for the Evening Standard, GQ and The New York Times, and is an editor of Tortoise Media.

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Matthew d'Ancona is chairman of the liberal Conservative think tank, Bright Blue, a trustee of the Science Museum and a Visiting Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London.