{{short description|British journalist}} {{distinguish|Janet Dailey}} {{use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Janet Daley | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1944|3|21|df=y}} | birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, US | alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|U. of California, Berkeley|University of London}} | occupation = Journalist | credits = ''The Sunday Telegraph'' }}
'''Janet Daley''' ({{née}} '''Klatskin'''; born 21 March 1944) is an American-born conservative journalist based in Britain. She is a columnist for ''The Sunday Telegraph''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/janet-daley/|title=Janet Daley|website=The Telegraph|access-date=26 May 2019}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Daley is Jewish.<ref>{{cite news |last=Daley |first=Janet |title=The more we discuss religious differences the safer we will be |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/janetdaley/4632370/The-more-we-discuss-religious-differences-the-safer-we-will-be.html |work=Daily Telegraph |date=15 February 2009 |access-date=18 October 2025 }}</ref> She studied philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley, following which, in 1965, she moved to Britain, where she received a Master of Philosophy at the University of London.<ref name="Design">Geoffrey Broadbent and Anthony Ward (eds), ''Design Methods in Architecture'', Lund Humphries, 1968. {{oclc|563507884}}</ref>
==Career== ===Teaching=== Daley then taught philosophy at the Open University, the University of London and the Royal College of Art. While teaching philosophy, she developed an interest in the philosophy of design and in 1982 published ''Design Creativity and Understanding Design Objectives'' for Design Studies (Vol. 3, No 3).<ref>[http://www.raeng.org.uk/news/publications/list/reports/philosophy_of_engineering_volume1.pdf "Philosophy of Engineering: Volume 1 of the proceedings of a series of seminars] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305195102/http://raeng.org.uk/news/publications/list/reports/Philosophy_of_Engineering_volume1.pdf |date=5 March 2012 }} held at The Royal Academy of Engineering, 2010, {{ISBN|1-903496-38-1}}</ref> She contributed to what later became recognised as an influential conference on design methods held at Portsmouth Polytechnic School of Architecture in 1967,<ref>Michael Brawn, ''Architectural Thought: The design process and the expectant eye'', Architectural Press: Oxford, 2003, p.27-28.</ref> which led to the book ''Design Methods in Architecture'' (1969), edited by Geoffrey Broadbent and Anthony Ward.<ref name="Design"/>
===Journalism=== Daley left academia in 1987 to become a journalist.<ref name="McCoughry-1998">{{Cite journal|last=McCoughry|first=Roy|title=Roy McCoughry talks to Janet Daley|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h56sBy_z9eUC&q=%22Roy+McCloughry+talks+to+janet+daley%22|journal=The Third Way|date=April 1998|volume=21|issue=3|pages=18|via=Google}}</ref>
==Political views== During the 1960s, while a student, Daley identified as a Marxist.<ref name=":Daley">{{cite web|last=Daley|first=Janet|year=2003|title=Living with European socialism turned this Berkeley girl into a conservative.|url=https://www.city-journal.org/html/liberalism-12417.html|website=City Journal}}</ref> During the 1980s, she was a member of Hornsey Labour Party.<ref>{{cite web|last=Daley|first=Janet|date=3 February 2018|title=The far Left's hounding of a council leader brings home bad memories|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/03/far-lefts-hounding-council-leader-brings-home-bad-memories/|access-date=26 May 2019|website=The Telegraph|publisher=}}</ref>
In a 2003 article titled "Up from Liberalism", she relates how her political views shifted from a leftist to a conservative viewpoint based on her early years in the UK. Of great significance in her ideological shift was the class structure in the UK, something she had not encountered in the United States, and exemplified she believed by a working class with limited aspirations. She noted, for instance, that "the left-wing elite castigated teachers for attempting to correct the working-class accents and dialects that help trap children in the limitations of their own backgrounds."<ref name=":Daley" />
Daley opposed reducing the age of consent for homosexuals to that of heterosexuals. Writing in ''The Times'', she described gay life as "aggressive freemasonry", and argued that homosexuality led to "childlessness, instability and mortal danger from Aids."<ref>{{cite web|last=Faye|first=Shon|date=19 April 2018|title=Today's anti-trans rhetoric looks a lot like old-school homophobia|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/19/anti-trans-rhetoric-homophobia-trans-rights|access-date=26 May 2019|website=The Guardian|publisher=}}</ref>
She has described the Trumpist interpretation of "political power and its uses [as] not just controversial [but] stark staring mad."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Daley |first=Janet |date=27 September 2025 |title=The political battle of our age is not between Left and Right, but sane and insane |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/27/trump-farage-special-relationship-sane-insane/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250927113522/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/27/trump-farage-special-relationship-sane-insane/ |archive-date=27 September 2025 |access-date=18 October 2025 |website=The Telegraph}}</ref>
==Personal life== Daley married in 1967 and has two daughters.<ref name="McCoughry-1998" />
==Works== * {{cite book |title=All Good Men |year=1987 |isbn=070113156X|last1=Daley |first1=Janet }} * {{cite book |title=Honourable Friends |year=1989 |isbn=0297796143|last1=Daley |first1=Janet }}
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