Hillary Clinton will find it harder to crush Donald Trump than she thinks
The more the elite in politics and the media attack him – however merited – the higher Trump’s ratings go
By Simon Heffer
12:00PM GMT 05 Mar 2016
simon heffer biography
Simon Heffer was born in 1960 and educated at King Edward VI's School, Chelmsford, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he read English and subsequently took a PhD in modern history.
He joined The Daily Telegraph as a leader writer in 1986 and later held the posts of chief leader writer, political correspondent, parliamentary sketchwriter, comment editor and deputy editor.
As Associate Editor he wrote a twice-weekly column for the Daily and a cultural column for the Sunday Telegraph. He won the Charles Douglas-Home Prize in 1994. He has written biographies of Thomas Carlyle, Enoch Powell and Ralph Vaughan Williams, a political biography of King Edward VII and the polemic Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinvention of England, about England's relations with Scotland
He left the company in 2011.
The more the elite in politics and the media attack him – however merited – the higher Trump’s ratings go
By Simon Heffer
12:00PM GMT 05 Mar 2016
simon heffer biography
Simon Heffer was born in 1960 and educated at King Edward VI's School, Chelmsford, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he read English and subsequently took a PhD in modern history.
He joined The Daily Telegraph as a leader writer in 1986 and later held the posts of chief leader writer, political correspondent, parliamentary sketchwriter, comment editor and deputy editor.
As Associate Editor he wrote a twice-weekly column for the Daily and a cultural column for the Sunday Telegraph. He won the Charles Douglas-Home Prize in 1994. He has written biographies of Thomas Carlyle, Enoch Powell and Ralph Vaughan Williams, a political biography of King Edward VII and the polemic Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinvention of England, about England's relations with Scotland
He left the company in 2011.