Michael Shanks

Michael Shanks was born in 1927 and educated at Blundells and Balliol College, Oxford, interspersed by a period in the Royal Artillery, in which he was commissioned. After leaving Oxford he worked for a time as a university lecturer in economics in the U.S.A. before going into journalism. He spent a year on the Economist before joining the Financial Times as leader and feature writer in 1953. He became labour correspondent in 1954 and industrial editor in 1957. He has …