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In 2015, Young wrote an article for the Australian magazine ''[[Quadrant (magazine)|Quadrant]]'' entitled "The fall of meritocracy". In it he advocated what he termed "progressive eugenics". Young proposed that when the technology for genetically engineered intelligence is practical it should be allowable for a decision to be made by poor parents with low IQs over which embryos should be allowed to develop using intelligence as a marker. "It could help to address the problem of flat-lining inter-generational social mobility", he wrote.<ref>{{cite news|last=Peyser|first=Robin de|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/toby-young-tweets-the-controversial-comments-that-led-to-his-resignation-a3735326.html|title=Toby Young tweets: the comments that led to his resignation|work=London Evening Standard|date=9 January 2018|accessdate=11 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Young|first=Toby|url=https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2015/09/fall-meritocracy/|title=The Fall of the Meritocracy|work=Quadrant|date=7 September 2015|accessdate=11 January 2018}}</ref>
In 2015, Young wrote an article for the Australian magazine ''[[Quadrant (magazine)|Quadrant]]'' entitled "The fall of meritocracy". In it he advocated what he termed "progressive eugenics". Young proposed that when the technology for genetically engineered intelligence is practical it should be allowable for a decision to be made by poor parents with low IQs over which embryos should be allowed to develop using intelligence as a marker. "It could help to address the problem of flat-lining inter-generational social mobility", he wrote.<ref>{{cite news|last=Peyser|first=Robin de|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/toby-young-tweets-the-controversial-comments-that-led-to-his-resignation-a3735326.html|title=Toby Young tweets: the comments that led to his resignation|work=London Evening Standard|date=9 January 2018|accessdate=11 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Young|first=Toby|url=https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2015/09/fall-meritocracy/|title=The Fall of the Meritocracy|work=Quadrant|date=7 September 2015|accessdate=11 January 2018}}</ref>


Young attended a London Conference on Intelligence in 2017, according to him "only for a few hours on a Saturday",<ref name="Adams110118"/> which was convened at [[University College London]] and according to Young it was in preparation for another conference in Canada later in 2017 at which he gave a speech, which was later published.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Rawlinson|first1=Kevin|last2=Adams|first2=Richard|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jan/10/ucl-to-investigate-secret-eugenics-conference-held-on-campus|title=UCL to investigate eugenics conference secretly held on campus|work=The Guardian|date=11 January 2018|accessdate=11 January 2018}}</ref><ref>https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/01/toby-young-once-more-unto-the-breach/</ref> The conference in London is convened by Honorary professor in UCL James Thompson, and according to media reports, included speakers who hold [[white nationalist]] and extremist views, including an alleged child rape apologist, [[Emil Kirkegaard]].<ref>https://evolvepolitics.com/toby-young-spoke-alongside-man-who-argued-raping-unconscious-children-is-fine/</ref><ref>https://www.rt.com/uk/415595-toby-young-university-eugenics/</ref> In his defence, Young wrote in a blog for ''The Spectator'' that he attended the conference as a journalist to report about it, which he later did. He writes that the conference in Montreal <!-- Other sources say Toronto. --> was "super-respectable". His resignation from the OfS and his presence at the conferences are unconnected, according to Young.<ref>{{cite news|last=Young|first=Toby|url=https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/01/toby-young-once-more-unto-the-breach/|title=Once more unto the breach|work=The Spectator|date=11 January 2018|accessdate=12 January 2018}}</ref>
Young attended a London Conference on Intelligence in 2017, according to him "only for a few hours on a Saturday",<ref name="Adams110118"/> which was convened at [[University College London]] and according to Young it was in preparation for the [[International Society for Intelligence Research]] conference in [[Montreal]] in July 2017 at which he gave a speech, which was later published.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Rawlinson|first1=Kevin|last2=Adams|first2=Richard|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jan/10/ucl-to-investigate-secret-eugenics-conference-held-on-campus|title=UCL to investigate eugenics conference secretly held on campus|work=The Guardian|date=11 January 2018|accessdate=11 January 2018}}</ref><ref name=Breach>{{cite news|last=Young|first=Toby|url=https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/01/toby-young-once-more-unto-the-breach/|title=Once more unto the breach|work=The Spectator|date=11 January 2018|accessdate=12 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Young|first=Toby|url=http://www.isironline.org/2017-montreal-canada-july-14-16/|work=International Society for Intelligence Research|title=2017: July 14-16 in Montreal|date=28 June 2017|accessdate=14 January 2018}}</ref>
The conference in London is convened by Honorary professor in UCL James Thompson, and according to media reports, included speakers who hold [[white nationalist]] and extremist views, including an alleged child rape apologist, [[Emil Kirkegaard]].<ref>https://evolvepolitics.com/toby-young-spoke-alongside-man-who-argued-raping-unconscious-children-is-fine/</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rt.com/uk/415595-toby-young-university-eugenics/|work=International Society for Intelligence Research|title=Shamed Toby Young ‘attended secret eugenics conference with neo-nazis and pedophiles’|work= |date=11 January 2018|accessdate=14 January 2018}}</ref> In his defence, Young wrote in a blog for ''The Spectator'' that he attended the conference as a journalist to report about it, which he later did. He writes that the conference in Montreal <!-- Other sources say Toronto. --> was "super-respectable". His resignation from the OfS and his presence at the conferences are unconnected, according to Young.<ref name=Breach/>


UCL launched an investigation into the London Conference on Intelligence, of which it had previously been unaware, for potentially breaking its room booking policy, after Young's presence at one of them had been revealed.<ref>{{cite news|last=Bothwell|first=Ellie|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ucl-launches-investigation-secret-eugenics-conference|title=UCL launches investigation into secret eugenics conference|work=Times Higher Education|date=11 January 2018|accessdate=12 January 2018}}</ref>
UCL launched an investigation into the London Conference on Intelligence, of which it had previously been unaware, for potentially breaking its room booking policy, after Young's presence at one of them had been revealed.<ref>{{cite news|last=Bothwell|first=Ellie|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ucl-launches-investigation-secret-eugenics-conference|title=UCL launches investigation into secret eugenics conference|work=Times Higher Education|date=11 January 2018|accessdate=12 January 2018}}</ref>

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Toby Young
Young on 25 October 2011
Member of the Board of the
Office for Students
In office
2 January 2018 – 9 January 2018
Universities MinisterJo Johnson
Succeeded byTBD
Personal details
Born
Toby Daniel Moorsom Young[1]

(1963-10-17) 17 October 1963 (age 61)
Buckinghamshire, England
Political partyConservative[2][3]
Spouse
Caroline Bondy
​
(m. 2001)​
Children4
Alma materBrasenose College, Oxford
Trinity College, Cambridge
Harvard University
OccupationJournalist

Toby Daniel Moorsom Young[1] (born 17 October 1963) is a British journalist and Director of the New Schools Network, a free schools charity.

Young is the author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, an account of his "stint" in New York as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine, and a columnist at The Spectator. He served as a judge in seasons five and six of the television show Top Chef[4] and co-founded the West London Free School.[5] In early January 2018, he was announced as a non-executive director on the board of the board of the Office for Students.[6] A controversial appointment, he resigned over a week later after many of his offensive Twitter comments were uncovered.[7]

Early life

Born in Buckinghamshire, Young was brought up in Highgate, North London, and in South Devon. His mother Sasha Moorsom was a BBC Radio producer, artist and writer,[8] and his father was Michael Young (later Baron Young of Dartington), a Labour life peer and pioneering sociologist who coined the word "meritocracy".[9]. Although entitled to use the style The Hon. Toby Young,[10] he does not.[11]

Education

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West London Free School, 2011

Young was educated at Creighton School (now Fortismere School), Muswell Hill and King Edward VI Community College, Totnes. He left school at 16 with one Grade C GCE O-Level in English Literature and worked under a Government Youth Training Scheme. He then retook his O-Levels and went to the Sixth Form of William Ellis School, Highgate, leaving with two Bs and a C at A-Level. Despite thus failing to achieve the College's BBB offer, he was given a place at Brasenose College, Oxford. Young claims he was sent an acceptance letter by mistake, as well as a letter of rejection from the admissions tutor Harry Judge: in an article he wrote for The Spectator, he stated that his father phoned Judge to clarify the situation – Judge was in a meeting with the PPE tutors at the time, and after some discussion, they decided to offer Young a place.[12] He had been given a conditional offer of three Bs plus an O-level pass in a foreign language under a scheme to give access to comprehensive pupils.[13][14][12]

He was awarded a First in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and then worked for The Times for a six-month period as a news trainee until he was fired. The reason he was sacked, according to Young in The Sound of No Hands Clapping (2006), was for hacking the computer system and circulating senior executives' salaries to others around the building, and impersonating the editor Charles Wilson.[15][16][17] Young then became a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. This was followed by a two-year period at Trinity College, Cambridge where he carried out research for a doctorate that he did not complete.[17]

Journalism, writing and stage performer

In 1991, Young co-founded and co-edited the Modern Review with Julie Burchill and her then husband Cosmo Landesman. Its motto was "Low culture for highbrows".[18] "The whole enterprise was driven by one fairly simple idea," Young told John Harris writing for The Observer in 2005. "And that was that critics had a responsibility to take the best popular culture as seriously as the best high culture".[18]

Four years later the magazine was close to financial collapse and Young closed it down, angering his principal financial backer Peter York, as well as Burchill and staff writer Charlotte Raven.[16] Burchill had tried to replace Young as editor with Raven. "Ultimately the reason we fell out is because our relationship began as a kind of mentor-apprentice, and that was a kind of relationship which Julie was comfortable with. It was only when I succeeded in getting out from under her shadow that our relationship deteriorated", Young said in 2005.[19]

Young moved to New York City shortly afterwards to work for Vanity Fair accepting an invitation from its editor, Graydon Carter.[1] In the time he wrote for the magazine he contributed 3,000 words, but was paid $85,000.[1][20] After being sacked by Vanity Fair in 1998, he stayed in New York for two more years, working as a columnist for the New York Press, before returning to the UK in 2000. A memoir of these years, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, was published in 2001.[21]

Following Jack Davenport, Young performed in the West End one-man stage adaptation of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People in 2004 in which, according to The Guardian's Lyn Gardner, he managed to "make a spectacle of himself".[22] In 2005, he co-wrote (with fellow Spectator journalist Lloyd Evans) a sex farce about the David Blunkett/Kimberley Quinn intrigue and the "Sextator" affairs of Boris Johnson and Rod Liddle called Who's the Daddy?[23] It was named as the Best New Comedy at the 2006 Theatregoers' Choice Awards.[24]

From 2002 to 2007, Young wrote a restaurant column for the Evening Standard and later a restaurant column for The Independent on Sunday. In addition to serving as a judge on Top Chef, Young has competed in the Channel 4 TV series Come Dine with Me, appeared as one of the panel of food critics in the 2008 BBC Two series Eating with the Enemy and served as a judge on Hell's Kitchen.[25]

He is an associate editor of The Spectator, where he writes a weekly column, the editor of Spectator Life and a regular contributor to the Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph.[citation needed] His Telegraph blog was long-listed for the 2012 George Orwell Prize for blogging.[26] He was a political columnist for The Sun on Sunday for its first 11 months.[27] At the time of the paper's launch in late February 2012, in a twitter exchange with comedy writer Graham Linehan, he was asked about working for Rupert Murdoch and the events before Milly Dowler's murder became known: "That murdered girl thing? Check the Guardian story. Turned out to be balls. Get off your high horse". The story itself was not in error, but the paper did falsely claim the News of the World's journalist Glenn Mulcaire had deleted her voicemail.[28][29]

During the 2015 Labour leadership election, he encouraged readers of the politically conservative Daily Telegraph to join the Labour party and support Jeremy Corbyn, who Young thought was the weakest candidate.[30]

In addition to the book How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Young is the author of The Sound of No Hands Clapping (2006), How to Set Up a Free School (2011) and What Every Parent Needs to Know: How to Help Your Child Get the Most Out of Primary School (2014), which he co-wrote with Miranda Thomas.[citation needed]

Film and television producer

British producer Stephen Woolley and his wife Elizabeth Karlsen produced the film adaptation How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) in conjunction with FilmFour. Young, who co-produced the film, was played by Simon Pegg.[31] It was released in Britain on 3 October 2008 and reached the number one spot at the box office in its opening week.[32][33] The film received mostly negative reviews[34] and was a commercial failure, losing over £8 million[35]

Young co-produced and co-wrote When Boris Met Dave (2009), a drama-documentary for Channel 4 about the relationship between Eton and Oxford University contemporaries Mayor Boris Johnson and Conservative Party Leader PM David Cameron. It was first broadcast on More4 on 7 October 2009 and later shown on Channel 4.[36]

Roles in education

Free schools

Young was a proposer and co-founder of the West London Free School, the first free school to sign a funding agreement with the Education Secretary, and is now a trustee of the charitable trust that manages the school.[37][38] He stood down as CEO of the school in May 2016 after admitting that he didn't realise how difficult it was going to be to run.[39] The national press coverage of the school having four headteachers in the space of six years was linked to the higher profile for the school engendered by its links to Young.[40]

The trust opened a primary school in Hammersmith in 2013, a second primary in Earls Court in 2014 and a third primary in Kensington in 2016.[citation needed] Young is a follower of the American educationalist E.D. Hirsch and an advocate of a traditional, knowledge-based approach to education.[41]

In 2012 Young wrote an article criticising the emphasis on "inclusion" in state schools.[42] Young said "Inclusive. It’s one of those ghastly, politically correct words that have survived the demise of New Labour. Schools have got to be “inclusive” these days. That means wheelchair ramps, the complete works of Alice Walker in the school library...", which some saw as an attack on including disabled children in mainstream education, as well as racism. He denied this charge, saying he was only referring to "dumbing down".[43]

On 29 October 2016, Young was appointed Director of the New Schools Network, a charity founded in 2009 to support groups setting up free schools.[44]

Office for Students

Young was announced as one of the non-executive members of the board for the new Office for Students in January 2018, a body which is intended to ensure institutions in higher education are accountable. Michael Barber will be chair of the Board.[6][45] It emerged soon afterwards that misleading claims had been made by the Department for Education about Young's posts at the Cambridge University and Harvard. Although they were teaching roles, he was not appointed to any academic post.[46]

Theresa May defended the appointment on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, but said she was previously unaware of the comments and "he would no longer be in public office" if he continued his previous use of language.[47] On 8 January, the universities minister Jo Johnson said in the House of Commons in answer to a question over the appointment: "We want to encourage Mr Young to develop the best sides of his personality".[48] He resigned from the position the next day, writing in The Spectator that his appointment had "become a distraction" counteracting the "vital work" of the OfS.[7][49] Shortly afterwards, Young resigned as a Fulbright Commissionner.[50]

An inquiry was launched shortly after Young's resignation by Peter Riddell, the Commissioner for Public Appointments. Riddell said the OfS panel report to ministers about Young "made no mention of Mr Young’s history of controversial comments and use of social media". The disquiet which followed "makes a strong case for more extensive due diligence inquiries".[51]

Eugenics

In 2015, Young wrote an article for the Australian magazine Quadrant entitled "The fall of meritocracy". In it he advocated what he termed "progressive eugenics". Young proposed that when the technology for genetically engineered intelligence is practical it should be allowable for a decision to be made by poor parents with low IQs over which embryos should be allowed to develop using intelligence as a marker. "It could help to address the problem of flat-lining inter-generational social mobility", he wrote.[52][53]

Young attended a London Conference on Intelligence in 2017, according to him "only for a few hours on a Saturday",[51] which was convened at University College London and according to Young it was in preparation for the International Society for Intelligence Research conference in Montreal in July 2017 at which he gave a speech, which was later published.[54][55][56]

The conference in London is convened by Honorary professor in UCL James Thompson, and according to media reports, included speakers who hold white nationalist and extremist views, including an alleged child rape apologist, Emil Kirkegaard.[57][58] In his defence, Young wrote in a blog for The Spectator that he attended the conference as a journalist to report about it, which he later did. He writes that the conference in Montreal was "super-respectable". His resignation from the OfS and his presence at the conferences are unconnected, according to Young.[55]

UCL launched an investigation into the London Conference on Intelligence, of which it had previously been unaware, for potentially breaking its room booking policy, after Young's presence at one of them had been revealed.[59]

Twitter and Wikipedia

Young has come under criticism for comments he made on Twitter, most of which were deleted upon his appointment to the Board of the Office for Students. Young claimed to have posted more than 56,000 tweets, of which 8,439 remain.[60]

These included what a London Evening Standard editorial called "an obsession with commenting on the anatomy of women in the public eye".[61] He referred on Twitter to the cleavage of unnamed female MPs sitting behind Ed Miliband in the Commons in 2011 and 2012. When later challenged by Stella Creasy on Newsnight he said of the second such incident: "It wasn’t my proudest moment".[62][63] Other remarks included homophobic slurs, including a claim that George Clooney is "as queer as a coot".[64]

One tweet by Young was in response to a BBC Comic Relief appeal in 2009 for starving Kenyan children.[65] During the broadcast, a Twitter user commented that she had "gone through about 5 boxes of kleenex" whilst watching. Toby Young replied: "Me too, I havn't [sic] wanked so much in ages".[47] He has expressed remorse for his "politically incorrect" tweets.[66]

Young is believed to have edited his own Wikipedia page 282 times in the last ten years.[67][68]

Personal life

Young married Caroline Bondy in July 2001; the couple have four children.[69] Young is a supporter of Queens Park Rangers Football Club.[70]

Drug Use

Young has admitted using illegal drugs – specifically taking cocaine at the Groucho Club in central London,[71] and also supplying drugs to others. He was subsequently expelled from membership of the Club in late 2001 for writing about the cocaine use of his friends whom he had supplied with the drug during a photo shoot for Vanity Fair.[72] Such exposes are against Club rules; the incident occurred in 1997.[71]

See also

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