The son of Britain's first woman MP Nancy Astor, he was only 29 when he took over the editorship of the Sunday paper but went on to recruit writers such as George Orwell, Arthur Koestler and Kenneth Tynan during his 27-year tenure.

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Great chess players, as Mr Arthur Koestler explained in a scholarly article in the Sunday Times on July 2nd, are seldom nice or happy.

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Arthur Koestler argued that the creative act involved juxtaposing ideas that were not normally associated with each other, and that is where I would seek for similarities between writing and science.

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