Martin Hedges

Martin Hedges was an international business journalist, though nowadays he lives in Suffolk, England. He bores the evening away about his three claims to notoriety; being hit with a golf club in an affectionate manner by CNN boss Ted Turner, introducing Geldof to disgraced publishing mogul Robert Maxwell with a triumphant ‘Bob, this is Bob’ and having a pair of pink leather sneakers stolen at gunpoint by a shoeless Syrian soldier at a Beirut checkpoint.

He has loved history since childhood, though a low point in this amour was school, with its ‘wax on, wax off’ repetition of kings, battles and indistinguishable, undistinguished 19th century Prime Ministers such as Lord Liverpool and Viscount Melbourne. You might say it was the Pitts.