23 Facts About Toby Harnden

Toby Harnden was born on 14 January 1966 and is an Anglo-American author and journalist who was awarded the Orwell Prize for Books in 2012.

Toby Harnden spent almost 25 years working for British newspapers, mainly as a foreign correspondent.

Toby Harnden previously spent 17 years at The Daily Telegraph, based in London, Belfast, Washington, Jerusalem and Baghdad, finishing as US Editor from 2006 to 2011.

Toby Harnden was reporter and presenter of the BBC Panorama Special programme Broken by Battle about suicide and PTSD among British soldiers, broadcast in 2013.

Son of architect Keith Anthony Harnden and Valerie Anne Steadman Harnden, he was born in Portsmouth and grew up in Marple and Rusholme, Manchester.

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Toby Harnden attended Harrytown Comprehensive School in Bredbury, Cheshire and St Bede's College, Manchester.

Toby Harnden entered Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in January 1985 and passed out the following August.

Toby Harnden got his information from security force sources on both sides of the Border and although he refused to give evidence to Smithwick – presumably on the laudable grounds that he would not compromise his sources – I believed him.

Toby Harnden's book is a compulsively fascinating tour of this alternative universe.

The book had already been cleared for publication by the MOD after a four-month review process that Toby Harnden had agreed to as part of a contract that provided him with access to the Welsh Guards.

Toby Harnden started his career in journalism as a theatre reviewer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for The Scotsmanand a writer of obituaries for The Independent.

Toby Harnden began at The Daily Telegraph in 1994 as a home news reporter.

Toby Harnden was posted to Belfast as the newspaper's Ireland Correspondent in March 1996, shortly after the IRA's first ceasefire had ended.

Toby Harnden subsequently covered the IRA's second ceasefire, the Good Friday Agreement and the Omagh bombing of 1998 Harnden was ordered by Lord Saville's Bloody Sunday Tribunal to hand over recordings and notes of his interviews with two anonymous Paratroopers who had been present during the 1972 killings.

Toby Harnden refused to do so, arguing that it was his duty to protect the anonymity of his sources.

From 1999 to 2003, Toby Harnden was Washington Bureau Chief of The Daily Telegraph.

Toby Harnden joined The Sunday Telegraph in 2005 as London-based Chief Foreign Correspondent, traveling to report from Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, Bahrain, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Austria, Italy, Estonia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, the United States and Thailand.

In May 2005, Toby Harnden was imprisoned in Zimbabwe for 14 days after being arrested at a rural polling station on the day of the country's parliamentary elections and deported following acquittal on charges of illegally entering the country and "practicing journalism without accreditation".

Toby Harnden returned to Washington DC in May 2006 as a correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph and in October 2006 became United States Editor of The Daily Telegraph.

Toby Harnden covered the 2008 primaries and general election, traveling extensively as part of the Obama campaign press corps.

Toby Harnden was shortlisted for the UK's Press Gazette for Digital Journalist of the Year 2008.

Toby Harnden left the Telegraph at the end of 2011 to join the Daily Mail.

On 3 August 2021, two weeks before the collapse of Afghan forces and the return of the Taliban government, Toby Harnden argued in a Wall Street Journal opinion article that the US had succeeded in Afghanistan in 2001 because the CIA-led campaign had only used small number of American intelligence agents and Special Forces, combined with US air power, and had left the bulk of the fighting to indigenous Afghan forces.