Harry Mount



Profile:
Full name: Harry Mount

Area of interest: Current affairs; Culture; Latin learning

Journals/Organisation: The Daily Telegraph

Email: [mailto:harry.mount@telegraph.co.uk 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

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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/has written for: The Independent on Sunday

Other roles/Main role: Author

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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)

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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)

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The Daily Telegraph:
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Remit/Info: British culture and society

Section: Features / Comment

Role: Columnist

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Website: Telegraph.co / Opinion

Commissioning editor:

Day published: Varies

Regularity: Irregular

Column format:

Average length: 800 words



Articles:

 * How to deal with a rude host - When facing bad manners, you have to fight fire with fire - 3rd May 2013
 * Friends: The One with George in Tears - Recalling the emotion of Lady Thatcher's funeral at St Paul's Cathedral was too much for the Chancellor - 21st April 2013
 * The man who foresaw the way of the world - Michael Wharton’s 'Telegraph’ column turned out to be remarkably prescient - 20th April 2013
 * Digging up Roman gold in the City of London - A huge archaeological dig is revealing hundreds of miraculously preserved artefacts, giving an unprecedented picture of fashion, culture and eating habits - 12th April 2013
 * The aristocracy has always loved new blood - The British aristocracy is, in fact, extremely absorbent, and has been since it began. Beauty or cash certainly accelerates the process - 3rd April 2013
 * Friends: The One Where Dave Feels the Chill - The PM and the Chancellor discuss their unpopularity in the latest episode of our political sitcom - 24th March 2013
 * Children can’t think if they don’t learn facts - The academics who criticised rote learning are wrong – it is at the heart of all knowledge - 22nd March 2013
 * Friends: The One with... Nick in a Huff - The atmosphere is tense between the PM and his deputy in the latest episode of our political sitcom - 17th March 2013
 * Elizabeth II: the most dutiful monarch in a thousand years - The Queen is 87 next month but her diary of engagements is as full as ever. Shouldn’t she slow down - 14th March 2013
 * FRIENDS: The One with Dave and George and the Biscuit tin - The PM and Chancellor digest the implications of Rupert Murdoch's recent dinner invitation in the latest episode of our political sitcom - 10th March 2013
 * Our love of the past lies in a pile of old stones - Even if an Englishman’s home really did happen to be a castle, he could knock it down at the drop of a hat - 3rd March 2013
 * Have juries had their day in court? - The Vicky Pryce trial showed how modern jurors are finding it impossible to grasp basic principles of trial by jury - 22nd February 2013
 * Sandhurst was right to take the king's cash - The timing may not have been perfect, but angelic private donors are in short supply - 18th February 2013
 * Friends: The One With Dave’s Microwave - Tensions are rising over the ready meals in the Downing Street flat - 17th February 2013
 * Classical training that made Roy Lichtenstein a Pop genius - A Lichtenstein retrospective, which opens next week at Tate Modern, demonstrates that the Pop Artist had a much better training than today's modern artists - 10th February 2013
 * Why the Queen is never going to abdicate - The House of Windsor won’t follow Queen Beatrix’s example in the Netherlands. Our monarch believes the job is God-given and for life - 30th January 2013
 * Tower blocks haven’t only scarred city skylines – they’ve ruined lives - Terraced houses are more efficient and civilised. We should build more of them - they are Britain’s greatest contribution to domestic architecture - 25th January 2013
 * Prince Harry must muzzle himself - Harry's recent interview in Afghanistan's Helmand Province shows he has to learn to guard his tongue, to speak more like royalty and less like an Army officer - 23rd January 2013
 * To grasp the genius of PG Wodehouse, read him - The great writer’s gifts do not translate to the screen, so 'Blandings’ was bound to fail - 15th January 2013
 * Blue Plaque: 1867 - 2013? - It would be a tragedy if no more of English Heritage’s blue plaques were to grace London’s buildings – they bring humanity and history to the streets - 7th January 2013
 * Friends: The One with the Queen at No 10 - In the latest episode of our political sitcom, Mr Clogg meets his match - 23rd December 2012
 * Friends: The One with Dave's Bad Trip - Nick reckons the Parliamentary Drugs Report should blow the PM's mind, in the latest episode of our political sitcom - 16th December 2012
 * Good manners are oil to our social wheels - Teaching etiquette to the young will result in genuinely thoughtful behaviour in later life - 14th December 2012
 * Friends: the One with Dave’s Glowing Press - The PM reminds his pals that in the latest episode of our political sitcom - 2nd December 2012
 * A modern Dad’s Army? Stupid boy... - Plans to make the legendary TV comedy into a new film are doomed to disappoint. The show was the perfect blend of great acting and writing - 14th November 2012
 * Friends: The One with the Important Caller - Dave and Sam get their wires crossed as they wait for Barack to call in the latest episode of our political sitcom - 11th November 2012
 * History isn’t better for being jazzed up - Alan Bennett turns his guns on the National Trust in his latest play – and he’s right to do so - 5th November 2012
 * It would do Paxo good to be a little more buttoned up - Best not to mess with the sober suit and tie formula - 27th October 2012
 * Underground art is still fresh after 150 years - We British aren’t usually good at avant-garde, but the Tube’s designs were utterly modern - 21st October 2012
 * Boris Johnson has a deadly weapon – wit - The Mayor of London has never been more popular – but would the electorate trust him with the top job? - 10th October 2012
 * Friends: The One Where Dave and George Wonder What to Bring to the Party - Exactly whose One Nation is it anyway? Apart from Disraeli's, that is ... - 7th October 2012
 * Friends: The One Where Dave and George Make a Beeline for the Bunker - Dave's getting nervous about Ed's growing popularity, not to mention the threat from Boris - 16th September 2012
 * The Queen’s earplugs are just the lead we require in the battle on noise - Since when did the nation find it impossible to tolerate silence? - 31st August 2012
 * Friends: The One with the Pain in Spain - Dave finds his Spanish getaway leaves something to be desired, in the latest episode of our political sitcom - 19th August 2012
 * The seaside: Where we do like to be - The ties that bind us to Britain’s coastline and countryside go back centuries - 18th August 2012
 * The Range Rover goes up in the world - The Sloane Rangers’ rural workhorse is now the vehicle of choice for the bling brigade - 17th August 2012
 * Friends: The One Where Dave and Vince Consider the Figures - Green and gold shoots of recovery in the latest episode of our Westminster sitcom - 29th July 2012
 * Why flags and anthems really matter - Whether in North Korea or Britain, patriotic emblems are deeply felt - 27th July 2012
 * Money and drugs: the lethal cocktail for Eva Rausing - The sad life and death of Eva Rausing highlights the damage that inherited fortunes can cause - 12th July 2012
 * Rothschild and Rockefeller: family fortunes - Harry Mount marvels at how these two dynasties have held on to their wealth for so long - 31st May 2012
 * Friends: the One Where Dave Doesn’t Finish His Greek Salad - Dining out with Sam, the PM suddenly gets that hunted feeling, in the latest episode of our political sitcom - 27th May 2012
 * Giving dogs silly names is part of the Mitford code - Gryffindor is an ideal royal dog name because it is ludicrous - 25th May 2012
 * 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
 * no tears for the bookshop'' - Candlestick-makers must have cursed Edison’s light bulb. The clever ones made more beautiful candlesticks - 29th August 2011
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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



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