Editing Simon Heffer (section)

==Career==

=== Journalism ===
Heffer worked for ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' until 1995. He worked as a columnist for the ''[[Daily Mail]]'' from 1995 to 2005. He rejoined the ''Telegraph'' in October 2005 as a columnist and associate editor. [[Martin Newland]], the ''Daily Telegraph''{{'s}} editor at the time, described the newspaper as Heffer's "natural journalistic home".<ref name="Telegraph">{{cite news | title=Columnist Simon Heffer to join the Daily Telegraph | work=The Daily Telegraph| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/pressoffice/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/pressoffice/2005/09/19/pre20050919.xml | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311102242/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/pressoffice/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/pressoffice/2005/09/19/pre20050919.xml | archive-date=11 March 2007 | access-date=5 November 2006 | location=London}}</ref> He left the ''Telegraph'' in May 2011 to "pursue a role in journalism and broadcasting" and "complete a major literary project".<ref>{{cite news |first=James |last=Robinson |title=Simon Heffer to leave Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/may/11/simon-heffer-leaves-daily-telegraph |date=11 May 2011 |work=The Guardian |access-date=12 May 2001 |location=London}}</ref> It had been speculated that his departure had been prompted by his constant attacks on [[Cameron–Clegg coalition|David Cameron's government]], of which the ''Telegraph'' had been generally supportive.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/may/11/simon-heffer-leaves-daily-telegraph Simon Heffer to leave Daily Telegraph], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 11 May 2011</ref> Heffer later rejoined the ''Daily Mail'' to edit a new online comment section, called RightMinds, of the paper's online edition.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/sep/13/heffer-mail-online-comment-website | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Josh | last=Halliday | title=Simon Heffer launches MailOnline comment website RightMinds | date=13 September 2011}}</ref><ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014gcm1 Simon Heffer and media ownership], [[BBC Radio 4]], 14 September 2011</ref> He returned to the ''Daily Telegraph'' in June 2015 and has a weekly column in the ''[[The Sunday Telegraph|Sunday Telegraph]]''.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/11655186/Simon-Heffer-Culture-isnt-just-nice-its-necessary.html 'Culture isn't just nice – it's necessary'], ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'', 6 June 2015</ref>

=== Historian and author ===
Heffer has written biographies of the historian and essayist [[Thomas Carlyle]] and the composer [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]. His 1998 biography of the British politician [[Enoch Powell]], ''[[Like the Roman]]'', was described by the ''[[New Statesman]]'' as "a lucid and majestic tribute" to the politician.<ref name="New Statesman_Powell">{{cite news
| url = http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2010/10/english-heffer-sentence
| date = 11 December 1998
| title = The long road to oblivion. Ian Aitken on Simon Heffer's lucid and majestic tribute to the controversial genius of Enoch Powell
| author = Ian Aitken
| work = [[New Statesman]]
| access-date = 15 March 2011| author-link = Ian Aitken (journalist)
}}</ref><ref>[http://www.faber.co.uk/content/faber-finds-enoch-powell-simon-heffer www.faber.co.uk] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511022347/http://www.faber.co.uk/content/faber-finds-enoch-powell-simon-heffer |date=11 May 2013 }}</ref> He received his PhD in Modern History from [[Cambridge University]] for the Powell biography.<ref name=":0" />

In September 2010, Heffer published ''Strictly English: the Correct Way to Write... and Why it Matters'', a guide to [[English grammar]] and usage. The book met with some negative reception.<ref name="New Statesman_Strictly English">{{cite news
|url = https://www.newstatesman.com/books/2010/10/english-heffer-sentence
|date = 14 October 2010
|title = Strictly English: The Correct Way to Write...and Why it Matters By Simon Heffer
|author = David Crystal
|work = [[New Statesman]]
|access-date = 15 March 2011
|author-link = David Crystal
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101017034632/https://www.newstatesman.com/books/2010/10/english-heffer-sentence
 |archive-date=17 October 2010 }}</ref> Since 2010 he has published several historical works such as ''A Short History of Power'' (2010) and a series of three books on the social history of Great Britain from the mid nineteenth century until the end of the First World War: ''High Minds: the Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain'' (2013), ''[[The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914]]'' and ''Staring at God: Britain 1914 to 1919'' (2019).

Heffer became a professorial research fellow at the [[University of Buckingham]] in 2017.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/directory/professor-simon-heffer/|title=Professor Simon Heffer|website=University of Buckingham|language=en|access-date=15 November 2019}}</ref>