Matthew d'Ancona

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Matthew d'Ancona (born 1968) is a British journalist. A former deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph, he was appointed editor of The Spectator in February 2006.

D'Ancona's father came from Malta to Britain to study and ended up playing professional football for Newcastle. [1] before becoming a civil servant. His mother was an English teacher. He was educated at St Dunstan's College, Catford and Magdalen College, Oxford where he took the top First in Modern History for his year in 1989. The same year, he was elected a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

After a year studying medieval confession, he joined the magazine Index on Censorship, before proceeding to The Times as a trainee. There he rose swiftly to become Assistant Editor at the age of 26.

He joined The Sunday Telegraph in 1996 as comment editor and columnist, before becoming Deputy Editor. He has written a weekly political column in The Sunday Telegraph for a decade. He succeeded Boris Johnson as editor of The Spectator.

He is also the author of two books on early Christian theology, The Jesus Papyrus and The Quest for the True Cross. He has written two novels, Going East and Tabatha's Code, the latter published in May 2006.

D’Ancona has also written several articles for the British political magazine Prospect