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216: 88:. In his second year there, he became chief leader writer, a position he kept until 1977. From 1973–84, he was also the paper's political editor. He established a Sunday column, "Inside Politics", that made him famous. Beginning in 1981, he also held the position of joint deputy editor. However, Young's relationship with 153:(1989), in addition to a very critical article that he wrote two weeks before his death but which was not published until after Thatcher's death, nearly ten years after his own. He wrote other books, including 719: 734: 704: 616: 714: 266: 128: 724: 709: 412: 399: 386: 373: 345: 332: 319: 306: 293: 280: 627: 739: 744: 585: 577: 594: 235: 495: 524: 729: 22:(13 October 1938 – 22 September 2003) was a British journalist and columnist and senior political commentator at 469: 561: 227: 215: 49: 551: 145:
Despite these differences, Young remained on good terms with senior ministers, including Tony Blair and
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and other news media, and helped the paper through important developments such as the purchase of
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He remarried in 1990, this time to American artist Lucy Waring. Young died at the age of 64 of
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took over the paper in 1981. The conflict culminated in a series of battles with editor
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Thatcherism: Did Society Survive? (The Maisie Ward Sheed memorial lecture)
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The Hugo Young Papers: Thirty Years of British Politics – Off the Record
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in Young's memory. Among the notable figures to have delivered it are
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In 1965, Young returned to the United Kingdom. He was recruited by
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and he spent the next year working as a congressional fellow.
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This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair
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Young continued to write a twice-weekly political column at
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in North Yorkshire during his youth; later, he read law at
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There is now an annual Hugo Young Lecture, organised by
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Hugo Young, Leading British Columnist, Is Dead at 64
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The Guardian
Sheffield
recusant
Ampleforth College
Balliol College, Oxford
Yorkshire Post
Leeds
Harkness Fellow
United States
Denis Hamilton
The Sunday Times
Rupert Murdoch
Andrew Neil
Grenada
European integration
eurosceptic
Prime Minister
Tony Blair
George W. Bush
2003 invasion of Iraq
Margaret Thatcher
Churchill
Scott Trust
The Observer
David Cameron
Nick Clegg
Ed Miliband
Marjorie Scardino
Alex Salmond

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