Tony Victor Parsons (born 6 November 1953) is an English journalist, broadcaster, and author. He began his career as a music journalist for "New Musical Express" ("NME"), writing about punk music. Later he wrote for "The Daily Telegraph", before going on to write for the "Daily Mirror" for 18 years. Since September 2013, Parsons has written a column for "The Sun". He was for a time a regular guest on the BBC Two arts review programme "The Late Show", and appeared infrequently on the successor "Newsnight Review"; he also briefly hosted a series on Channel 4 called "Big Mouth".