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 and career

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 US 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]

Works
gollark: (in any case, it's probably less than the resource waste from Electron etc. by rather a lot)
gollark: I do vaguely feel this way about encryption and whatever - if people were trustworthy and nice™, we could save some amount of system resources and key distribution hassle and whatever. As it turns out, though, they aren't, so it isn't very relevant, and even if everyone suddenly did stop being antagonistic, this is a ridiculously unstable state.
gollark: What of the GTech™ contrasocietous chambers™?
gollark: You don't get secure systems by saying "let's just trust Jeff here".
gollark: Well, the energy thing is separate, but this is good security design, yes.

References
  1. "MT Engagement Diary". margaretthatcher.org. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  2. Regulating The Press. Google. 2000. p. 162. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  3. "Media Lens :: View topic – Leader writers in the UK press". medialens.org. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  4. "Bluff your way in the European Community". worldcat.org. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  5. "Toner, Michael". worldcat.org. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  6. http://fc95d419f4478b3b6e5f-3f71d0fe2b653c4f00f32175760e96e7.r87.cf1.rackcdn.com/C6140EA02F9E4771B11B429097375978.pdf
  7. Seeing the Light. Simon & Schuster. 1997. Retrieved 3 May 2015 – via Internet Archive.
  8. School of the Black & Red, A History of Bedford Modern School, A.G. Underwood (1981)
  9. "The Case of Peter Pan, Or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction". google.co.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  10. "Benn's Press Directory". google.co.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  11. Regulating The Press. Pluto Press. 2000. p. 162. Retrieved 2 June 2015 – via Internet Archive.
  12. "David Waddington Memoirs". google.co.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  13. "Vacher's Parliamentary Companion". google.co.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  14. "The Moral Status of Children". google.co.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  15. England & Wales, Birth Index, 1916–2005
  16. "Bluff Your Way in the EEC". google.co.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  17. "Way We Were: Roger Jones and his recollections of The Sentinel newspaper in Stoke-on-Trent". Stoke Sentinel. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  18. "Interview for Sunday Express". margaretthatcher.org. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  19. "The Battle for Bermondsey". google.co.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  20. "Five at 10". google.co.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  21. Irish-America and the Ulster Conflict, 1968–1995. Catholic University of Amer Press. 1995. Retrieved 2 June 2015 – via Internet Archive. michael toner sunday express.
  22. "IRIS News". google.co.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  23. "The Sydney Morning Herald – Google News Archive Search". Google. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  24. "Crime and the media". google.co.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  25. "Kurt Waldheim". google.co.uk. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  26. David Alton. "ISSUU – Whose Choice Anyway by David Alton". Issuu. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  27. "Bluff your way in the EEC". worldcat.org. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  28. "The bluffer's guide to the E.U." worldcat.org. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  29. "315041383". viaf.org. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  30. "Seeing the light". worldcat.org. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  31. "Toner, Michael". loc.gov. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  32. "Books: A week in books". The Independent. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  33. "The Bluffer's Guide to the E.U." google.co.uk. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  34. "Bluff Your Way in the City (The Bluffer's City Collection)". LibraryThing.com. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
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