James Wentworth Day (21 April 1899 – 5 January 1983) was a British author and broadcaster, a promoter of Agrarian Right politics and essentially a High Tory.
He also became personal assistant to Lucy, Lady Houston and for a time shared some of her extreme ideas endorsing Benito Mussolini, although he was suspicious of Adolf Hitler.
He worked for a number of British newspapers, had senior jobs with the magazines The Field and Country Life, and was both owner and editor of the periodical Saturday Review.
On 6 November 1968 Day addressed the Conservative Monday Club on several issues commencing with a defence of the House of Lords after Harold Wilson's White Paper for its reform.
He also criticized "unrealistically high" Death Duties and condemned land speculators, saying that it was to the shame of the Conservative Party that they had never implemented an Agricultural Charter.
[2] Wentworth Day briefly achieved minor public notice during 1957 and 1958, when he performed as the resident reactionary in Daniel Farson's television series for the company Associated-Rediffusion, most famously Out of Step and People in Trouble.
Farson, who was gay, was afraid Wentworth Day might get him into legal trouble and insisted that the programme be omitted, theoretically because the Independent Television Authority would ban it anyway.