Paul Johnson
Paul Bede Johnson (born 2 November 1928 in Manchester, England) is an English journalist, historian, speechwriter and author. He was educated at the Jesuit independent school Stonyhurst College, and at Magdalen College, Oxford. Johnson first came to prominence in the 1950s as a journalist writing for, and later editing, the New Statesman magazine. A prolific writer, he has written over 40 books and contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers. While associated with the left in his early career, he is now a conservative popular historian. His sons are the journalist Daniel Johnson, founder of Standpoint, and the businessman Luke Johnson, until recently chairman of Channel 4.
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Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
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2005
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Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere
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2000
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Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
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2008
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