Max Hastings
Max Hastings
Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings, FRSL, FRHistSis a British journalist, editor, historian and author. His parents were Macdonald Hastings, a journalist and war correspondent and Anne Scott-James, sometime editor of Harper's Bazaar...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth28 December 1945
Max Hastings quotes about
written
I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.
associate cause family inclined inevitable serious trouble
It was always inevitable that if you get serious trouble in any family then everybody's inclined to look at the head of that family and see if they see any cause or reason to associate it with the head of the, head of the family, why it should be.
soldier has-beens
I would have been a disastrous soldier.
responsibility media doubt
There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media.
government decent catastrophe
A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.