Daniel Benedict Johnson (born 26 August 1957) is a British journalist and author who was the founding editor of Standpoint magazine.
[3] After attending Langley Grammar School he graduated with a First in Modern History from Magdalen College, Oxford, and then studied at Peterhouse, Cambridge for three years from 1978 to 1981.
Returning to English academia as a fellow of Queen Mary, University of London, he served as Director of Publications for the Centre for Policy Studies.
His question and Minister Schabowski's response is shown nightly in a video displayed every evening to tourists at the Deutsche Bundestag building in Berlin.
[citation needed] Allegations were published in the January 9, 2008 issue of The New York Sun, written by Johnson about then-presidential candidate Barack Obama and Kenya's candidate (and subsequent Prime Minister) Raila Odinga, based on what was later described as "a patently fallacious story ... or at the very least to shirk their responsibility to the truth.