Education

Winsford First Sch., Exmoor; Primrose Hill Primary Sch., Camden; European Sch., Brussels; Ashdown Hse, Sussex; Bryanston Sch., Dorset (Schol.); St Paul’s Girls’ Sch., London; Davidson Coll., N Carolina (Dean Rusk Schol., 1984); New Coll., Oxford (MA Lit.Hum. 1988)

Career

Financial Times: grad. trainee, 1989–90; reporter, 1990–94; on secondment to FCO, 1992–93; sen. broadcast journalist, BBC Radio Four, 1994–96; columnist: Sunday Telegraph, 1996–98; FT, 1998–2000; Daily Telegraph and Evening Standard, 2000–06; contributing ed., Spectator, 2006–07; columnist, Sunday Times, 2007–09; Ed., 2009–12, Ed.-in-Chief, 2012, The Lady mag.; columnist, Mail on Sunday, 2012–18; Panellist, The Pledge, Sky News, 2016–20; Rock Critic, The Oldie, 2020–; presenter, LBC, 2020–; host, weekly podcast, Rachel Johnson’s Difficult Women, Global News. Contested (Change UK) SW, EP, 2019

Publications

(ed) The Oxford Myth, 1988; The Mummy Diaries, 2005; Notting Hell, 2006; Shire Hell, 2008; The Diary of a Lady: my first year as Editor, 2010; The Diary of a Lady: my first year and a half, 2011; Winter Games, 2012; Notting Hill, Actually, 2013; Fresh Hell, 2015; Rake’s Progress: my political midlife crisis, 2020

Recreations

tennis, travel, throwing things away

Address

1 Rosmead Road W11 2JG

racheljohnson11@btinternet.com

Clubs

Electric House; Campden Hill Lawn Tennis

See Also

C. J. P. Dawnay C. M. Dawnay Baron Johnson of Marylebone Rt Hon. A. B. de P. Johnson L. F. Johnson