Alan Watkins

Coming from the wars of words

  • EDITOR: AN INSIDE STORY OF NEWSPAPERS

    Max Hastings

    Pan, pp. 608

It was 1971, at the Dudley Hotel, Hove, late at night during a Tory conference, and Sir (as he then wasn’t) Max Hastings and I were discussing editorship. He was then working for the BBC. Specifically, we were talking about the editorship of the New Statesman. There was discontent there about the tenure of R.

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