John Junor

Not to be confused with John Junor (Jamaican politician) or John Junor (rugby union).

Sir John Donald Brown Junor (15 January 1919 – 3 May 1997) was a Scottish journalist and editor-in-chief of the Sunday Express between 1954 and 1986,[1] having previously worked as a columnist there.[2] He then moved in 1989 to The Mail on Sunday, where he remained until his death.

Noted for his deliberately provocative views, Junor was described by the Conservative MP Julian Critchley as "possibly the best-known Scotsman in England" during the 1980s and as "an ill-natured populist with a taste for common-or-garden abuse."[3]

  1. ^ "'Top 40' UK journalists honoured". BBC News. 22 November 2005. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  2. ^ "British Journalism Review Vol. 13, No. 3, 2002 - the greatest editor of them all?". Archived from the original on 23 February 2007. Retrieved 17 March 2007.
  3. ^ Julian Critchley (5 May 1997). "Obituary: Sir John Junor". The Independent. Retrieved 16 September 2023.