Third Way Trust Limited

Publisher and Editor of Third Way
2/1993 – 4/2002

Third Way is a current-affairs magazine, founded in 1977, which examines political, social and cultural issues from a ‘thinking Christian’ perspective. I took on a title in chronic decline, with £8,000 in the bank, no staff and a reputation for dullness. I immediately commissioned a new design and introduced a series of in-depth interviews of public figures, beginning with the then Lord Chancellor.

By 2002, both sales and turnover had risen by 135 per cent and Rowan Williams was describing Third Way as ‘a rare animal … professional, imaginative, unafraid [and] irreplaceable’. Michael Taylor, president of Jubilee 2000, judged it ‘one of the best ways I know to engage a hard-thinking faith with the realities of life’.

I was variously responsible for commissioning, subbing and laying out the whole magazine, as well as running the business, budgeting, marketing &c. I co-ordinated an extensive network of consultants and contributors, and latterly recruited and directed a team of six freelance section editors to commission most of the content.

In 2000, I commissioned a new website, which I managed for two years.

I secured interviews of well over 100 key public figures, including Tony Blair and Gerry Adams (pipping most of the British media), and myself interviewed, among others, Anita Roddick, John Humphrys, George Carey, Philip Pullman, Mark Thompson, Jon Snow and General Sir Mike Jackson, as well as writing leaders &c.

The one that got away…

Director of Third Way Travel Limited
1/1999 – 4/2004

In 1999, I conceived and created Third Way Travel to offer educational holidays to our readers in collaboration with various partners overseas. I organised four trips to Ecuador and two to Borneo, leading all but one.

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