Malcolm Muggeridge

Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge 24 March 1903 14 November 1990 was an English journalist and satirist His father H T Muggeridge was a prominent socialist politician and one of the early Labour Party Members of Parliament for Romford in Essex In his twenties Muggeridge was attracted to communism and went to live in the Soviet Union in the 1930s and the experience turned him into a forceful anticommunist During World War II he worked for the British government as a soldier and a spy first in East Africa for two years and then in Paris In the aftermath of the war he converted to Christianity under the influence of Hugh Kingsmill and helped to bring Mother Teresa to popular attention in the West He was also a critic of the sexual revolution and of drug use Muggeridge kept detailed diaries for much of his life which were published in 1981 under the title Like It Was The Diaries of Malcolm Muggeridge and he developed them into two volumes of an uncompleted autobiography Chronicles of Wasted Time from httpsenwikipediaorgwikiMalcolmMuggeridge