Harry Mount

Profile: Full name: Harry Mount Area of interest: Current affairs; Culture; Latin learning Journals/Organisation: The Daily Telegraph Email: harry.mount@telegraph.co.uk Personal website: Website: Blog: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/author/harrymount Representation: http://www.littlebrown.co.uk/Authors/M/3030 Networks:

Biography: About: A former Telegraph' leader writer Education: Oxford University: Ancient History (first) Career: Worked for a time as a Latin tutor; The Daily Telegraph: leader writer and deputy comment editor, New York bureau chief; Daily Mail: leader writer; has also written for The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph, The Times, The Spectator Current position/role: Blogs at the Telegraph and writes for various newspapers/magazines also writes/written for: Other roles/Main role: Author Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: What's wrong with keeping Oxford within the family? The Daily Telegraph, 2001 Broadcast media: Video: BBC Radio 4, Start the Week programme: The joys of Latin, 2006 (audio) Controversy/Criticism: Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other: Son of Ferdinand Mount; cousin of David Cameron, Tory leader

Books & Debate: My Brief Career: The Trials of a Young Lawyer (Short Books, London; New Ed edition, 2005) ISBN 1904977073 Latest work: Amo, Amas, Amat... and All That: How to Become a Latin Lover (Short Books, London, 2006) ISBN 1904977545, ISBN 140015524X (audiobook) Speaking/Appearances: Debate:

The Daily Telegraph: Column name: Remit/Info: British culture and society Section: Features / Comment Role: Columnist Pen-name: Email: Website: Telegraph.co / Opinion Commissioning editor: Day published: Varies Regularity: Irregular Column format: Average length: 800 words

Articles: Monarchs: The world’s most exclusive club gathers for the Jubilee - As the Queen plays host to assorted royals this week, Harry Mount looks at the enduring – if anachronistic – appeal of monarch - 16th May 2012 Lord’s should be kept free of nuns and nylon - The MCC will have its work cut out in trying to improve sport’s sartorial standards - 14th May 2012 A bejewelled walk through British history - The Crown Jewels are such a familiar part of the national furniture that we rarely stop to look at them objectively - 2nd April 2012 Friends: The One Where Stanley Fink Takes Charge - Lord Fink to the rescue in the latest episode of our Westminster sitcom - 1st April 2012 The class war is still raging across the dining table - In their desperation to appear down-to-earth, politicians only succeed in looking insincere - 30th March 2012 The classical world just refuses to stay dead - New discoveries are being made all the time in classical scholarship - 18th March 2012 Barns are our countryside cathedrals - As the restored great barn at Harmondsworth is unveiled, the spotlight falls on Britain’s bucolic masterpieces - 31st January 2012 Honours list refuseniks want it both ways - In this game of posh poker, those who turn down the Queen may still come up trumps - 27th January 2012 The rise of the Sloane Ranger - In 1982 the Duchess of Cambridge was born and the 'Sloane Ranger Handbook’ published. Harry Mount tells how the Sloanes have come of age - 9th January 2012 In Queen Victoria’s glorious footsteps - When the Queen celebrates her Diamond Jubilee in June she will face fewer diplomatic dilemmas than her great-great grandmother, the empress of India - 2nd January 2012 Christmas University Challenge: 'I’m going to have to hurry you...’ - Two Telegraph writers go head to head this week on Christmas University Challenge, which puts graduates in the hot seats. Lucy Jones and Harry Mount explain how they survived Paxman’s withering gaze - 19th December 2011 How a Frenchman invented the English garden - A new exhibition shows how Claude Lorrain's vision of wildness and ruin inspired the landscape we know today - 9th October 2011 The art of the Medicis is a lesson in absolution for bankers - If Fred the Shred had spent his millions on something useful, he might not have got it in the neck so badly - 17th September 2011 Shed no tears for the bookshop - Candlestick-makers must have cursed Edison’s light bulb. The clever ones made more beautiful candlesticks - 29th August 2011 P G Wodehouse wasn’t a traitor, merely foolish - Out of his depth in harsh reality, the author couldn’t even be funny in his wartime broadcasts from Nazi Germany to America - 27th August 2011 Friends: The One Where Rebekah Tries to Drop in for Tea - An uncomfortable encounter in Oxfordshire in the latest episode of our Westminster sitcom - 17th July 2011 How England's country houses recovered their glory - The £35m asking price for Cliveden shows that the English country pile is in the rudest health - 10th July 2011 To cull or not to cull? Either way, they are not as nice as they look - Farmers want to stop the spread of TB in cattle. But Brock will fight back - 3rd July 2011 We need a new Toulouse-Lautrec to capture this sleazy, hedonistic age - The drunken brawl at Ascot shows how similar our culture is to the debauched world that the great French artist depicted - 19th June 2011 St Paul's Cathedral anniversary: the beauty of the domes that Wren built - With St Paul's Cathedral celebrating its 300th anniversary, Harry Mount wishes that more of London's architecture would possess such lasting beauty - 28th February 2011 How politics got 'posh' again - A BBC documentary argues that meritocracy and social mobility are dead in British political life. Harry Mount sifts the evidence - 24th January 2011 Pete Postlethwaite was a classically British actor - Pete Postlethwaite was part of a great theatrical tradition that emphasises ability over looks - 3rd January 2011 Booker Prize: Britain's best literature is divine comedy - The Booker Prize judges are seeing the funny side– and about time, too - 9th September 2010 Odysseus's palace is best left to imagination - Unfortunately, proof of the epic events of the Iliad and Odyssey remains elusive - 26th August 2010 Grey hair works. No hair works. But comb-overs are just a joke - While the vanity of the male in pursuit of perpetual youth knows no bounds, ridicule is his only sure reward - 8th August 2010 (writing in The Independent on Sunday) Harry Mount v Michael Deacon: What's gone wrong with the modern novel? - Two Telegraph bloggers, Harry Mount and Michael Deacon, ask why - if HBO can find brilliant writers - today's novels are such junk - 31st July 2010 (with Michael Deacon) Why the rivetting Sherlock Holmes stories have endured - The timeless appeal of Sherlock Holmes is due to Conan Doyle's powers of observation - 26th July 2010 What happened to the page-turner novel? - Too much modern fiction is dreary, slow-moving and downright boring - 6th July 2010 Posh' shows that nothing excites the British like class - A new play seeks to rekindle interest in the Bullingdon Club roots of the Tory elite. But how much do the social backgrounds of our would-be leaders really matter - 13th April 2010 Romans said it better - Mark Lowe's eye-watering Latin email is proof of the lasting value of the supposedly dead language - 25th November 2009 London, haven of billionaires and baddies - London / Immigrants - 31st August 2007 Our reverence for books is ludicrous - Books - 14th August 2007 We see the Tour de France every day... - Cycling in Britain - 6th July 2007

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