22 Facts About Max Hastings

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Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings is a British journalist and military historian, who has worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, and editor of the Evening Standard.

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Max Hastings is the author of thirty books, most significantly histories, which have won several major awards.

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Max Hastings' parents were Macdonald Max Hastings, a journalist and correspondent, and Anne Scott-James, sometime editor of Harper's Bazaar.

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Max Hastings was educated at Charterhouse and University College, Oxford, which he left after a year.

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Max Hastings moved to the United States, spending a year as a Fellow of the World Press Institute, following which he published his first book, America, 1968: The Fire This Time, an account of the US in its tumultuous election year.

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Max Hastings became a foreign correspondent and reported from more than sixty countries and eleven wars for BBC1's Twenty-Four Hours current affairs programme and for the Evening Standard in London.

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Max Hastings was the first person accompanying the British Task Force to enter Port Stanley on the last day of the 1982 Falklands War.

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8.

Max Hastings was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2002 Birthday Honours for services to journalism.

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Max Hastings was elected a member of the political dining society known as The Other Club in 1993.

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Max Hastings has presented historical documentaries for the BBC and is the author of many books, including Bomber Command, which earned the Somerset Maugham Award for non-fiction in 1980.

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Max Hastings was named Journalist of the Year and Reporter of the Year at the 1982 British Press Awards, and Editor of the Year in 1988.

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Max Hastings is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and the Royal Historical Society.

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Max Hastings was President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England from 2002 to 2007.

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Max Hastings wrote a column for the Daily Mail between 2002 and 2008 and often contributes articles to other publications such as The Guardian, and The Sunday Times.

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Max Hastings currently writes a bimonthly column for Bloomberg Opinion.

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Max Hastings has a surviving son and daughter by his first wife, Patricia Edmondson, to whom he was married from 1972 until 1994.

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Max Hastings has at different times voted for all three major British political parties.

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Max Hastings announced his support for the Conservative Party at the 2010 general election, having previously voted for the Labour Party at the 1997 and 2001 general elections.

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Max Hastings said that "four terms are too many for any government" and described Gordon Brown as "wholly psychologically unfit to be Prime Minister".

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Max Hastings advocated a United Ireland but said he was against Scottish and Welsh independence.

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Max Hastings was widely criticised for stating in the article that the Welsh language was of "marginal value" and that Wales could not succeed as an independent country because it was "dependent on English largesse".

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In March 2021, Max Hastings wrote that the prospect of a showdown between the United States and China over Taiwan was becoming increasingly likely.