Harry Mount



Profile:
Full name: Harry Mount

Area of interest: Current affairs; Culture; Latin learning

Journals: The Daily Telegraph

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Biography:
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: see: Axed New York man eyes Telegraph return, June 2007

Other roles: Author

Viewpoints/Insight: What's wrong with keeping Oxford within the family? The Daily Telegraph, 2001

TV/Radio: BBC Radio 4, Start the Week programme: The joys of Latin, 2006 (audio)

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Books: 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)

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Other: Son of Ferdinand Mount; cousin of David Cameron, Tory leader 

The Daily Telegraph:
Column remit: British culture and society

Section: Features / Comment

Role: Columnist

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Website: Telegraph.co / Opinion

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Day published: Varies

Regularity: Irregular

Column format:

Average length: 800 words



Articles:

 * 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
 * Postlethwaite was a classically British actor'' - Pete Postlethwaite was part of a great theatrical tradition that emphasises ability over looks - 3rd January 2011
 * Prize: Britain's best literature is divine comedy'' - The Booker Prize judges are seeing the funny side– and about time, too - 9th September 2010
 * palace is best left to imagination'' - Unfortunately, proof of the epic events of the Iliad and Odyssey remains elusive - 26th August 2010
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 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
 * happened to the page-turner novel?'' - Too much modern fiction is dreary, slow-moving and downright boring - 6th July 2010
 * 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
 * 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



Links:

 * Wikipedia bio