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  • The Oldie

    My Parliamentary sketches

    Nov 17, 2021 3 minutes

    The daily leader-writers’ conference at the Telegraph was fun and instructive. This was especially true while Bill Deedes (Telegraph editor, 1974-86) and, later, Charles Moore (editor, 1995-2003) were editing.

    Leaders – also known as editorials – reflect the editor’s and the paper’s view of the news. Sometimes the editor writes them but, more often than not, a group of leader-writers are given the job of writing the three leaders: usually two serious ones and a light-hearted one.

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