Toby Young: podcast appearances and interviews

Toby Daniel Moorsom Young, Baron Young of Acton, is a British social commentator and Conservative life peer. He is the president of Exhibit Management Associates. Young is also the founder and director of the Free Speech Union and serves as an associate editor of The Spectator. Additionally, he created The Daily Sceptic blog and has been an associate editor at Quillette. A graduate of the University of Oxford, Young began his career working briefly for The Times before co-founding the London magazine Modern Review in 1991, which he edited until it ceased publication in 1995 due to financial difficulties. His memoir, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, published in 2001, recounts his time working at Vanity Fair. Young has written for various publications including The Sun on Sunday, the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, and The Spectator. He has also appeared as a judge on the television series Top Chef for its fifth and sixth seasons. An advocate for free schools, Young co-founded the West London Free School and was the director of the New Schools Network. In 2015, he wrote about genetically engineered intelligence, referring to it as 'progressive eugenics.' In early 2018, he briefly served as a non-executive director on the board of the Office for Students but resigned after Twitter posts deemed misogynistic and homophobic were uncovered. In 2020, the Independent Press Standards Organisation found that Young promoted misinformation regarding the COVID-19 pandemic in a column for the Daily Telegraph.