Daily Archives: 29 December 2008

Happy birthday, Phillip George Knightley

Phillip Knightley, the legendary investigative journalist, is celebrating his 80th birthday in Goa today. Australia-born Knightley was a special correspondent for The Sunday Times for 20 years (1965-85) under Sir Harold Evans and a leading member of its Insight investigative team, which broke the Kim Philby and thalidomide scandals. In his memoirs A Hack’s Progress,…