Boris Johnson sends articles for Tuesday
Boris Johnson has sent four articles on the topic of freedom of speech for our meeting on Tuesday. Copies of the articles will be available for attendees, and will be posted on our Website Tuesday for those who care to do their reading ahead, and there will be a reading that evening (sorry ladies, Boris will be staying home, but I have been assured I make an adequate substitute).
Here is the bio from his website:
About Boris Johnson
MP for Henley-on-Thames since June 2001
Editor of The Spectator (August 1999 to December 2005)
Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party (October 2003 - November 2004)
Shadow Minister for the Arts (April 2004 - November 2004)
Shadow Minister for Higher Education from December 2005Mr Johnson was born on 19 June 1964 in New York, USA, educated at Eton, (King’s Scholar) and Balliol College, Oxford (Brackenbury Scholar in Classics). He worked for the Times and the Wolverhampton Express and Star before joining the Daily Telegraph, where he was successively a leader and feature writer, EU Correspondent, and Assistant Editor.
In 1997 he was voted “What the Papers Say” Political Commentator of the Year; in 1998 he was mystifyingly designated Pagan Federation of Great Britain National Journalist of the Year; in 2003 he was voted Editors’ Editor of the Year; in 2004 he was voted Columnist of the Year at the British Press Awards and in December 2005 “What the Papers Say“ Columnist of the Year. He was voted Channel 4 News Award for the person who made the biggest impression on the politics of 2004, 2005. He writes a weekly column for the Daily Telegraph, and has published four books: Friends, Voters, Countrymen; Lend Me Your Ears, Seventy Two Virgins and Dream of Rome.
Mr Johnson is married to Marina and they have two sons and two daughters.
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