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British journalist, author, media personality, and satirist (–)

Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge (24 March – 14 November )^[1] was a British journalist and satirist.

His father, H. T. Muggeridge, was a socialist politician and one of the early Labour Party Members of Parliament (for Romford, in Essex). Malcolm's brother Eric was one of the founders of Plan International. In his twenties, Muggeridge was attracted to communism and went to live in the Soviet Union in the s, and the experience turned him into an anti-communist.

During World War II, he worked for the British government as a soldier and a spy, first in East Africa for two years and then in Paris.

Tayrene muggeridge biography of william

In the aftermath of the war, he converted to Christianity under the influence of Hugh Kingsmill and helped to bring Mother Teresa to popular attention in the West. He was a critic of the sexual revolution and of drug use.

Muggeridge kept detailed diaries for much of his life, which were published in