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Damian Thompson (born 1962) is an English journalist, editor and author. He is an associate editor of The Spectator . Previously he worked as editor-in-chief of the Catholic Herald and for The Daily Telegraph where he was religious affairs correspondent and later blogs editor and a Saturday columnist. [1]

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Thompson was educated at Presentation College, Reading (later known as the Elvian School), [2] and read history at Mansfield College, Oxford. [3]

In 2003, he received his Ph.D in the sociology of religion from the London School of Economics [4] for his thesis, The problem of the end: a sociological study of the management of apocalyptic belief at Kensington Temple, a London Pentecostal church, at the end of the millennium. [5] He was religious affairs correspondent of The Daily Telegraph from 1990 to 1994, and subsequently editor-in chief of the Catholic Herald. [6] He was a director of the Herald from 2003 to 2019. [7] [8]

Thompson was a Saturday columnist for The Daily Telegraph from 2011, and the Blogs Editor of the Telegraph Media Group, with responsibility for editing and commissioning blogs on politics, religion, finance and culture. In June 2014, he left his posts at The Telegraph [9] "in entirely amicable circumstances". [10] On 5 August 2014, The Spectator announced that Thompson had been appointed associate editor. [11]

He has written two books about apocalyptic belief and one about conspiracy theories or "counterknowledge", which he describes as "misinformation packaged to look like fact". [12] His book The Fix: How Addiction is Invading our Lives and Taking Over Your World was published in 2012. [13] He writes a monthly column about classical music for The Spectator . He also regularly writes a column on UnHerd . [14]

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  2. ↑ "Catholic school wins reprieve". The Daily Telegraph. 17 May 2003. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
  3. ↑ "Mansfield College Magazine – Winter 2008" (PDF). University of Oxford. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 September 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
  4. ↑ "Author profile – Damian Thompson". Atlantic Books . Retrieved 17 June 2012.
  5. ↑ OCLC   500224286
  6. ↑ Bone, Victoria (21 January 2009). "Defending the faith, or prejudice?". BBC News. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
  7. ↑ Alison Chung; Steph Oliver (15 January 2011). "Three Ex-Bishops Defect To Catholicism". Archived from the original on 2 February 2013. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
  8. ↑ "Catholic Herald Limited - Officers – Find and update company information – gov.uk". Companies House . Retrieved 9 February 2024.
  9. ↑ Roy Greenslade "Daily Telegraph's Brogan departs as group seeks 40 new recruits", (Greenslade blog) The Guardian, 18 June 2014
  10. ↑ Jack Sommers "Telegraph Cuts High-Profile Journalists Benedict Brogan And Damian Thompson In Latest Cull", The Huffington Post, 18 June 2014
  11. ↑ Fraser Nelson "Changes to The Spectator’s editorial team", The Spectator (blog), 5 August 2014
  12. ↑ Lies, damn lies and 'counterknowledge', The Daily Telegraph , 12 January 2008.
  13. ↑ Thompson, Damian (22 February 2012). "Are sleeping pills really that bad for your health?". The Daily Telegraph
  14. ↑ "Damian Thompson". UnHerd.
  15. ↑ Eisner, Robert (9 November 1997)."The Big Round One". The New York Times .
  16. ↑ Knight, India (11 July 2004). "Like a fat blackbird" . The Daily Telegraph.
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