Damian Thompson is a British journalist, columnist, and author. Thompson was educated at Presentation College, Reading, and read history at Mansfield College, Oxford University, taking an MA in 1983. In 2003 he received his Ph.D in the sociology of religion from the London School of Economics for a thesis entitled, "The problem of the end : a sociological study of the management of apocalyptic belief at Kensington Temple, a London Pentecostal church, at the end of the millennium" on the management of apocalyptic belief in a London Pentecostal church. He was religious affairs correspondent of The Daily Telegraph from 1990 to 1994, and subsequently Editor-in Chief of the Catholic Herald. He remains a director of the Herald. Thompson was a Saturday columnist for The Daily Telegraph from 2011, and the Blogs Editor of the Telegraph Media Group, with responsibility for editing and commissioning blogs on politics, religion, finance and culture. In June 2014, he left his posts at The Telegraph "in entirely amicable circumstances". On 5 August 2014, The Spectator announced that Thompson had been appointed associate editor. [More at Wikipedia]

January 1st, 1962 in (Age 62)