Mick Hume (born 1959) is a British journalist and author whose writing focuses on issues of free speech and freedom of the press.Hume was a columnist for The Times for 10 years from 1999, and was described as "Britain's only libertarian Marxist newspaper columnist". He has more recently written for The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times.Hume was born in New Haw, Surrey, and educated at Woking County Grammar School for Boys and the University of Manchester. In his twenties Hume became editor of the next step, newspaper of the now-defunct Revolutionary Communist Party. In 1988 he launched the party's magazine, Living Marxism. Wikipedia