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How I became editor of The Spectator – aged 27

Plus: R.S. Surtees, and the first person to give Archduke Franz Ferdinand both barrels

Former editor and Long life columnist of The Spectator, Alexander Chancellor [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy] 
issue 22 March 2014
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Thirty years ago this Saturday, I became editor of this magazine. In the same month, the miners’ strike began, Anthony Wedgwood Benn (as the right-wing press still insisted on calling him) won the Chesterfield by-election, the FT index rose above 900 for the first time and the mortgage rate fell to 10.5

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