Julian Arthur Charles Haviland (8 June 1930 – 11 August 2023) was a British print and broadcasting journalist whose career lasted over sixty years.
He was a lobby correspondent at Westminster for over twenty years, and was the political editor of Independent Television News (1975–1981) and The Times newspaper (1981–1986).
He then joined the Johannesburg Star in South Africa as a reporter, where he learned to speak Afrikaans, returning to the UK in 1959.
[8] In 1981, Haviland joined The Times as political editor, reporting on the early problems facing Thatcher's first government.
He moved to Tomintianda, on the banks of Loch Tummel in Strathtummel in the Scottish Highlands, where he wrote two books and occasionally contributed to national political debate.