Mike Morrissey obituary (opens in new tab)

My father, Mike Morrissey, who has died aged 96, received an unusual – yet ultimately prescient – piece of career advice. His English essays at school were routinely dismissed with a sniffy comment from his teacher: “journalese”. Years of hearing this supposed criticism left him in no doubt. A journalist he would be – and what a journalist he became.Born in Bradford, he was the eldest of four children of Jim, a paediatrician, and Winnifred. His father was killed at Dunkirk when Michael was 10...