When the Berrys sold the paper to Conrad Black in 1985, Deedes stayed on under the new editor Max Hastings who took over in 1986, filling in variously as leader writer, columnist and general reporter.
Over the last decade, the loud repetition of key messages by a chorus of business leaders, newspaper columnists, radio shock jocks and conservative politicians has proved a winning formula in campaigns ranging from climate change to industrial relations.
Oliver Kamm, a Times leader writer and columnist, is more permissive.
Guardian News & Media has today announced the appointment of Natalie Nougayrède as columnist, leader writer and foreign affairs commentator.
✒ Philip Collins, chief leader writer and columnist at the Times, seems in the awkward position of being starkly at odds with his own paper.
Career: Teaching fellow, Harvard, 1989-90; economic leader writer and columnist, Financial Times, 1990-1994; economic adviser to shadow chancellor Gordon Brown, 1994-1997; economic adviser to the chancellor, 1997-1999; economic adviser to Treasury since 1999.
The idea was to wander around the cathedral debating Dr Fraser (who is currently working as a leader writer and columnist on the Guardian, while waiting to take up a new role in a parish in south London) for an hour or so.
"In the 1990s, the EU was a giant organisation governed by prominent leaders," said leading columnist Mehmet Ali Birand.
In 1996 Gove joined The Times newspaper in London as a columnist and leader (editorial) writer.
Aditya Chakrabortty is economics leader writer and a columnist for the Guardian.
