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Full name: Sam Leith
Area of interest: Culture, Society and the Arts
Journals/Organisation: Evening Standard | The Guardian
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Website: Evening Standard | Guardian.co | Telegraph.co
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Representation: http://bloomsbury.com/Sam-Leith/authors/4198
Networks: http://twitter.com/#!/questingvole
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Biography:
About: Former Literary Editor of the Telegraph, now writing most frequently for The Guardian and Evening Standard (regular column)
Education: Eton College; Magdalen College, Oxford
Career: Daily Mail: worked on the Ephraim Hardcastle column; joined the Daily Telegraph in 1999: worked Peterborough diary column, went on to edit the literary pages as well as writing a Saturday column in the comment section
Anounced in December that he is leaving the Telegraph...
- How losing a job is like having a birthday says Sam Leith - It was 9.0 am on the morning of the first day of my exciting new life as a credit crunch statistic, and by golly there'd be no sitting around in my pants watching Trisha and, like, crying. On Tuesday, I was made redundant as the Daily Telegraph's literary editor. On Wednesday, I was going to make some sourdough bread, and suck up to the commissioning editors of other newspapers so hard my cheeks would turn inside out - The First Post, 4th December 2008
Current position/role: Columnist
- also writes/written for: The Spectator, Readers Digest
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Other: Eldest son of writer/journalist Penny Junor; grandson of the late newspaper editor Sir John Junor
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Latest work: The Coincidence Engine
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Articles: 2009
- Making a 'boy god' watch The Golden Child was bound to make him reject Buddhism - Torres was allowed to hang out only with reincarnated souls and Richard Gere - 4th June
- We can't tell whether the dinosaurs had necks like mine - they're all dead. And that's the beauty of it - Apart from tortoises, the hippy on The Young Ones and me, no living creature has a neck that sticks straight out in front - 28th May
- Drug tests at work? They're just a shabby trick by bosses who want to save on redundancy payments - It's perfectly reasonable to expect drug testing in certain lines of work. No one wants a nodding smackhead in charge of a crane - 21st May
- MPs hope that if they all rush in together and admit their sins, they will avoid individual blame - Is it illegal to call one house your second home for expenses purposes, and another one your second home for tax purposes? - 14th May (see: MPs' expense: summary)
- Barring this shock-jock from Britain risks turning a rabid blabbermouth into a beacon for free speech - The many people in Britain whom Jacqui Smith wants protected from Michael Savage's incoherent blowhardery are now far more familiar with it than they ever would have been otherwise - 7th May
- Kate Winslet says she's working-class. Whether it's true or not, why does it matter so much to her? - Everywhere, you see intelligent adults apologising for the accident of a privileged childhood or preening about having had a deprived one - 30th April
- Alan Sugar: you're fired. I have a new 'Sralan' in my life, and I don't know how I ever lived without him - Thanks to his emotional interview, the eccentric cricket-loving financier Sir Allen Stanford is now on my radar, and I don't really know how I did without him - 9th April
- Political protest should be about more than having a nice day out and fighting some bankers - 2nd April
- Why not let the security services spy on Twitter? It's not like they'll learn anything from it - Anyone who regards social networking sites as private needs their head read - 26th March
- Abu Dhabi is an odd place to visit amid global economic catastrophe: it feels like a high-water mark - If the cranes fall still and it becomes a ghost town, it will instantly qualify as one of the seven wonders of the world - 19th March
- You know it's bad when we feel nostalgic for 1976. The scary thing is - we really were better off then - I'm not the first person to notice that a major effect of this recession has been a great vertical gusher, a veritable oil-strike, of nostalgia - 12th March
- Now it's official: the entire beauty industry is built on the peddling of pernicious nonsense - It sells products that don't really work to people who don't really need them at prices they can't really afford - 5th March
- Now we're told there's an 'optimism gene'. Are we really just the helpless victims of our own brains? - Not only am I not in charge of my destiny, I'm not even in charge of how I feel about not being in charge of my destiny - 26th February
- Life on a submarine is very dull. But you don't want to liven it up by crashing into another boat - The only things to do are eat, play boardgames and drink 20-30 cups of tea a day. As a result the crew are a tubby lot - 19th February
- We need a sensible debate about drugs - but that's impossible while ministers float above it all - The truth is that there are endless people trying to have grown-up conversations about drugs. Many of them, such as Professor David Nutt, are senior advisers to the government. It's just the government ministers themselves who are busy settling into a balloon-filled room and don't want any grown-ups, like, harshing their buzz - 12th February
- Carol Thatcher was rightly criticised for her racist remark, yet plenty of ugly stereotypes are indulged - Golliwogs may have been removed from the jam jars - but Uncle Ben survives on rice and Aunt Jemima on pancake mix - 5th February
- Obama’s oratory - The rhetoric of the 44th president of the United States positions him as the inheritor of the oratorical and political traditions of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, and Jesus Christ - 18th January
- I loved working in an open-plan office. How else would I have snatched so much gossip - and cake? - Employees exhibit territorial anxiety by surrounding their desks with gonks, teddy bears and pictures of their jam-faced tots - 17th January
- We have learned to prolong life before learning to improve it. My grandmother's death proved that - 8th January
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- Literary editor Sam Leith becomes latest Daily Telegraph redundancy - 2nd December 2008
- Government plan to ban criminal memoirs is moronic - While we don't want vicious killlers ending up on the chat-show circuit, there is a place for criminal memoirs - 1st December 2008
- What if Heston Blumenthal gives the Little Chef snail porridge, but takes its soul? - 29th November 2008
- What's 'liberal' about hacking the BNP? - "Naming and shaming" is one of those idiotic buzz phrases popular due to an accident of rhyme - 22nd November 2008
- Misery memoirs like Ugly by Constance Briscoe make pornography of personal pain - 19th November 2008
- World of Warcraft a waste of time? - Leave gamers alone: playing World of Warcraft is just as valid a pastime as reading, watching television or playing sport - 14th November 2008
- Prince charming with no clothes on - The Queen could not have got away with it, but Prince William's remark to a stammering 18-year-old girl to imagine him naked was charming - 8th November 2008
- Supermarkets are evil: what a shame we love Tesco and Waitrose so - When discussing the evils of supermarkets, we should surely admit what everyone knows: that shopping in big supermarkets is heaven on earth - 1st November 2008
- Using bicarb instead of cream of tartar is bad - It may have escaped your notice - what with the collapse of capitalism, the most exciting American election in memory, and the Osborne/Mandelson scorpion-and-frog act - that it is National Baking Week - 25th October 2008
- Like Dr Rowan Williams, Half Man Half Biscuit have enriched our culture - 18th October 2008
- Institutionalised sexism of high literature? Guilty - 11th October 2008
- All hail spatial analysis co-ordinators - this post, unique in human history, may be long overdue. After all, nobody had heard of a "fireman" before the first fire brigade came along - 4th October 2008
- Finding something to hate about ID cards - At last the libertarian and disciplinarian strands in our nation can unite in a fear and loathing of ID cards - 27th September 2008
- South Park stops short of Baroness Warnock on the 'duty to die' - on the pamphlet a 'Duty to Die' - 20th September 2008
- Unity through eurobilge - The EU can insist on the use of their symbols, but they cannot manage the collective unconscious - 13th September 2008
- Brown's time is up - Whether it's his fault or not, the Prime Minister is getting the blame for the economic mess we're in and he's all out of moves - 6th September 2008
- We should thank Salman Rushdie - in defence of the controversial and much-maligned author - 30th August 2008
- We all obey the tyranny of beauty - the irony of a cosmetics company being forced to deny allegations that it altered a woman's appearance - 9th August 2008
- It's a fair cop. We're second best when it comes to police drama - Good British cop shows aren't really cop shows. They are detective dramas. They follow singular and eccentric heroes - 2nd August 2008
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