Ultimately, it was discovered that he was writing most of the magazine under various pseudonyms and was paying himself handsomely. Admittedly, when I turned up, as one sub-editor pointed out, I had no idea how to edit a magazine at all. I think I brushed it off by saying that really you just decide what goes into the magazine and what doesn’t. In my last year at the magazine, I received a letter from a lady whose father had been reading ST since he was a boy. The old man was dying and he looked forward to the magazine arriving each week but it often didn’t turn up.

Source: The Times November 16, 2023 01:56 UTC