Toby Daniel Moorsom Young
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About
British social commentator and journalist. He is the founder and director of the Free Speech Union, an associate editor of The Spectator and a former associate editor at Quillette. He is Editor-in-Chief of Daily Sceptic. He has been involved in several controversies, such as his promotion of "progressive eugenics" in 2015. He is the author of the popular memoir How To Lose Friends & Alienate People.
Before Fame
He was not popular growing up and was a poor student. He graduated from the University of Oxford. He received an acceptance letter by mistake, which they honored due to moral obligation. He worked for The Times for six months before co-founding the London magazine Modern Review. After it dissolved, he worked for a number of publications such as Vanity Fair, the Daily Mail and The Spectator.
Trivia
He resigned from being on the board of the Office for Students when Twitter posts described as "misogynistic and homophobic" were uncovered. In 2020 he was found to have promoted misinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic in a Daily Telegraph column. He posted an article from The Spectator to his toadmeister Twitter account in January 2023 about how he started sleeping in the shed and never stopped. He served as a judge in seasons five and six of the television show Top Chef.
Family Life
His mother, Sasha, was a BBC Radio producer, artist and writer. His father was Michael Young, a sociologist and later Lord Young of Dartington. He is married to a woman named Caroline Bondy. They have four children and a Cavapoochon named Mali.
Associated With
The 2008 movie version of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People starred Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Danny Huston, Gillian Anderson and Megan Fox, among others.
