Xan Smiley

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(editor)
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BornMay 1, 1949
Hanover, Germany
NationalityUK
Alma materNew College (Oxford)
ParentsDavid de Crespigny Smiley
Member ofLe Cercle
The Economist editor and columnist who attended Le Cercle. Friend of Prime Minister David Cameron. Son of intelligence officer David de Crespigny Smiley.

Employment.png Editor-at-large

In office
1992 - Present
EmployerThe Economist
"Bagehot" and "Charlemagne" columnist. Attended spooky Le Cercle.

Xan de Crespigny Smiley is a British columnist and editor for The Economist. He attended at least one meeting of the spooky deep state milieu Le Cercle.

Background

Xan is son of David de Crespigny Smiley (11 April 1916 – 9 January 2009), a high ranking British special forces and intelligence officer.

Career

Xan Smiley joined The Economist in 1983 as Middle East editor and became political editor and "Bagehot" columnist in 1992. In 1995 he became Europe editor, starting the "Charlemagne" column, and in October 2003 he became the Middle East and Africa Editor. [1]

Previously he was Washington correspondent of the Sunday Telegraph (1989-92), Moscow correspondent of the [[Daily Telegraph] (1986-89), an editorial leader writer at The Times (1981-83), and the editor (and later co-owner) of Africa Confidential, a specialist newsletter.

Friend of David Cameron

Prime Minister David Cameron said in 2012:

"There's a small number of journalists who are close friends of mine and who I see so frequently that I have not included them systematically in these lists, namely Daniel Finkelstein, Alice Thomson and Sarah Vine from the Times, Xan Smiley and Christopher Lockwood from the Economist, and Robert Hardman from the Daily Mail," Cameron said. "These are people I see very regularly and I'm never going to remember to tell my office every time I see them."[2]


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