Stephen Glover

Stephen Glover is a British journalist and columnist for the Daily Mail. Glover was educated at Shrewsbury School and Mansfield College, Oxford . Glover co-founded The Independent in 1986 with Andreas Whittam Smith and Matthew Symonds.

All three had previously been journalists on The Daily Telegraph and had left the paper towards the end of Lord Hartwell's ownership. Between 1986 and 1990 Glover was Foreign Editor of The Independent.[3] In 1990 he became the founding editor of The Independent on Sunday.

In 1992 Glover helped Richard Ingrams launch The Oldie magazine with fellow journalists Auberon Waugh, Alexander Chancellor, and Patrick Marnham. Glover is the author of Paper Dreams (1993), an account of the founding of The Independent, and editor of The Penguin Book of Journalism (1999). His first novel, Splash, was published by Constable in 2017.