Varsity (Cambridge) and a separate editor controls a special edition May Week issue (or, in some years, daily May Week issues) at the end of the academic year. Many of those who wrote for the paper during their student days have since gone on to achieve distinction in later life. Famous ex-editors include the BBC news presenters Jeremy Paxman and David Frost, film director Michael Winner, the television presenter Richard Whiteley, former "Financial Times" editor Andrew Gowers, "Independent" editor Amol Rajan, "i" editor Oliver Duff, novelist Robert Harris, novelist and biographer Graham Lord, historian Jonathan Spence, Factory Records founder Tony Wilson and
David English (editor) David English (editor) Sir David English (26 May 1931 — 10 June 1998) was a British journalist and newspaper editor, best known for his two-decade editorship of the "Daily Mail". English was born in Oxford, and educated at Bournemouth School. Aged 16, he joined the local "Christchurch Times" and then had a brief period with the "News" in Portsmouth, moving to London before he was 20. English began his national newspaper career at the "Daily Mirror" in 1951, before moving to the "Daily Sketch" firstly as Features Editor and then Editor. He took up the editorship of the "Daily Mail"