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Toby Daniel Moorsom Young ... | Toby Daniel Moorsom Young ...Toby Daniel Moorsom Young (born 17 October 1963) is a British social commentator. He is the Founder and Director of The Free Speech Union.[2][3] He is an associate editor of The Spectator,[4] and was formerly an Associate Editor at Quillette.[5][6] | ||
A graduate of the University of Oxford, Young briefly worked for The Times before co-founding the London magazine Modern Review in 1991, and edited it until financial difficulties led to its demise in 1995. His 2001 memoir How to Lose Friends & Alienate People details his subsequent employment at Vanity Fair. He then went on to write for The Sun on Sunday, the Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator. He also served as a judge in seasons five and six of the television show Top Chef.[7] A proponent of free schools, Young co-founded the West London Free School and served as Director of the New Schools Network. | |||
Young has been at the centre of several controversies. In 2015, he wrote an article in advocacy of genetically engineered intelligence, which he described as "progressive eugenics".[8] In early January 2018, he was briefly a non-executive director on the board of the Office for Students,[9] an appointment from which he resigned within a few days after Twitter posts described as "misogynistic and homophobic" were uncovered.[10] In 2020, press regulator IPSO found Young to have promoted misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic in a Daily Telegraph column. | |||
== Anagrams == | |||
* You Ignoble Roomy Mastadon | |||
* Musty Mooing, Baloney Odor | |||
* Bold Oniony Yammers Go Out | |||
* I Boom My Nugatory Noodles | |||
* Do Onanism, Embryo Tool Guy | |||
* My Bludgeon: A So-Moot Irony | |||
* Admonitory Mongol: "Obey Us" | |||
* I Sugar Bloody Monotony, Me | |||
* Bestiary Gloomy Doom Noun | |||
* O Goblin Yammer, O Sound Toy | |||
* I Bloom, O Yeasty Dung Moron | |||
* O Dung Moron, O Yeasty Limbo | |||
* O, I Argued Monotony Symbol | |||
* O Myrmidon Ontology Abuse | |||
* O You — Demonstrably Mooing! | |||
* Money Obligato Sodomy Run | |||
== In the News == | |||
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* [[Gnomon algorithm]] | |||
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]] | |||
== Nonfiction cross-reference == | |||
== External links == | |||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Young Toby Young] @ Wikipedia | |||
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Latest revision as of 06:41, 28 September 2022
Toby Daniel Moorsom Young ...Toby Daniel Moorsom Young (born 17 October 1963) is a British social commentator. He is the Founder and Director of The Free Speech Union.[2][3] He is an associate editor of The Spectator,[4] and was formerly an Associate Editor at Quillette.[5][6]
A graduate of the University of Oxford, Young briefly worked for The Times before co-founding the London magazine Modern Review in 1991, and edited it until financial difficulties led to its demise in 1995. His 2001 memoir How to Lose Friends & Alienate People details his subsequent employment at Vanity Fair. He then went on to write for The Sun on Sunday, the Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator. He also served as a judge in seasons five and six of the television show Top Chef.[7] A proponent of free schools, Young co-founded the West London Free School and served as Director of the New Schools Network.
Young has been at the centre of several controversies. In 2015, he wrote an article in advocacy of genetically engineered intelligence, which he described as "progressive eugenics".[8] In early January 2018, he was briefly a non-executive director on the board of the Office for Students,[9] an appointment from which he resigned within a few days after Twitter posts described as "misogynistic and homophobic" were uncovered.[10] In 2020, press regulator IPSO found Young to have promoted misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic in a Daily Telegraph column.
Anagrams
- You Ignoble Roomy Mastadon
- Musty Mooing, Baloney Odor
- Bold Oniony Yammers Go Out
- I Boom My Nugatory Noodles
- Do Onanism, Embryo Tool Guy
- My Bludgeon: A So-Moot Irony
- Admonitory Mongol: "Obey Us"
- I Sugar Bloody Monotony, Me
- Bestiary Gloomy Doom Noun
- O Goblin Yammer, O Sound Toy
- I Bloom, O Yeasty Dung Moron
- O Dung Moron, O Yeasty Limbo
- O, I Argued Monotony Symbol
- O Myrmidon Ontology Abuse
- O You — Demonstrably Mooing!
- Money Obligato Sodomy Run
In the News
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- Toby Young @ Wikipedia