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Viewpoint with Andrew Brown: Ambitious editor who remained a good man

Viewpoint with Andrew Brown: Ambitious editor who remained a good man

Thursday, December 4, 2025
YOU don’t found a newspaper without ambition, and Sir Andreas Whittam Smith was a determined man who hated to lose. The other two founders of The Independent were the scions of privilege: Matthew Symonds, the son of a Labour peer, and Stephen Glov...