British journalist
Janet Daley
(born 21 March 1944) is an
American
-born conservative
journalist
living and working in Britain. She is currently a columnist for
The Sunday Telegraph
.
[1]
Life and career
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Daley studied philosophy at the
University of California at Berkeley
, after which, in 1965, she moved to England, where she received an MPhil in philosophy at the
University of London
.
[2]
She then taught philosophy at the
Open University
, the University of London and the
Royal College of Art
. Daley left academia in 1987 to become a full time journalist.
[3]
She first wrote for
The Times
,
The Sunday Times
,
The Independent
and
The Spectator
. In 1989, she became a columnist for
The Independent
, followed in 1990 by
The Times
, before moving to
The Sunday Telegraph
in 1996.
During the 1960s, while still a student, Daley identified as a
Marxist
.
[4]
During the 1980s, she was a member of
Hornsey
Labour Party.
[5]
While still teaching philosophy, she developed an interest in the
philosophy of design
and in 1982 published
Design Creativity and Understanding Design Objectives
for Design Studies (Vol. 3, No 3).
[6]
She contributed to what later became recognised as an influential conference on design methods held at
Portsmouth Polytechnic
School of Architecture in 1967,
[7]
which led to the book
Design Methods in Architecture
(1969), edited by
Geoffrey Broadbent
and Anthony Ward.
[2]
Her contribution, titled "A philosophical critique of behaviourism in architectural design", was an early critique of the then much favoured architecture theorist
Christopher Alexander
.
Conservative ideology
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In a 2003 article titled "Up from Liberalism", she relates how her political views shifted notably from a leftist to a conservative viewpoint based on her early years in the UK. Of great significance in her ideological shift was the class structure in the UK, something she had not previously encountered in her homeland, and exemplified she believed by a working class with few aspirations. She noted, for instance, that "the left-wing elite castigated teachers for attempting to correct the working-class accents and dialects that help trap children in the limitations of their own backgrounds."
[4]
Daley was a vocal opponent of legislative changes in the UK during the 1990s that would have equalised the age of consent for
homosexuals
to that of
heterosexuals
. Writing in
The Times
, she described gay life as "aggressive freemasonry", and argued that homosexuality led to "childlessness, instability and mortal danger from Aids.”
[8]
Daley expressed support of the Leave campaign in the 2016 United Kingdom referendum on Membership of the European Union.
[
citation needed
]
She was a vocal supporter of the Conservative Party in the 2019 United Kingdom General Election.
[
citation needed
]
Daley has been married since 1967 and has two daughters.
[3]
Bibliography
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Daley, Janet (1987).
All Good Men
.
ISBN
070113156X
.
Daley, Janet (1989).
Honourable Friends
.
ISBN
0297796143
.
References
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- ^
"Janet Daley"
.
The Telegraph
. Retrieved
26 May
2019
.
- ^
a
b
Geoffrey Broadbent and Anthony Ward (eds),
Design Methods in Architecture
, Lund Humphries, 1968.
OCLC
563507884
- ^
a
b
McCoughry, Roy (April 1998).
"Roy McCoughry talks to Janet Daley"
.
The Third Way
.
21
(3): 18 – via Google.
- ^
a
b
Daley, Janet (2003).
"Living with European socialism turned this Berkeley girl into a conservative"
.
City Journal
.
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Daley, Janet (3 February 2018).
"The far Left's hounding of a council leader brings home bad memories"
.
The Telegraph
. Retrieved
26 May
2019
.
- ^
"Philosophy of Engineering: Volume 1 of the proceedings of a series of seminars
held at The
Royal Academy of Engineering
, 2010,
ISBN
1-903496-38-1
- ^
Michael Brawn,
Architectural Thought: The design process and the expectant eye
, Architectural Press: Oxford, 2003, p.27-28.
- ^
Faye, Shon (19 April 2018).
"Today's anti-trans rhetoric looks a lot like old-school homophobia"
.
The Guardian
. Retrieved
26 May
2019
.