He was educated at Eton College, an all-boys independent boarding school, for one year, which he "absolutely hated".
[5] In his capacity as editor of The Spectator he conducted, in June 1990, an interview with the cabinet minister Nicholas Ridley in which Ridley expressed opinions immensely hostile to Germany and the European Community, likening the initiatives of Jacques Delors and others to those of Hitler.
[6] Lawson added to the damage caused, by claiming that the opinions expressed by Ridley were shared by the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.
[12] In 2009, Lawson published an editorial asserting that women's athletic events receive less media coverage because they aren't as impressive as the men's, making the game less interesting to watch.
Unlike women, "with truly exceptional men, there is something extra, a kind of gasping astonishment on our part that such strength and power could be encompassed by a human being at all."
He concludes the article by saying that the BBC shouldn't have to broadcast people like his daughter, who has special needs, participating in sports.
I recall how gleeful he was at the way the gay marriage row was sending shire Tories in droves to switch to UKIP membership.