Awww shucks Christmas I'll spell it out for you as you obviously have not bothered to read Sir Max's CV only the key words from it.

The career path of Sir Max Hastings:

1967 to 1982 - Journalist/Reporter - Foreign Correspondent working for both the BBC and the Evening Standard, awarded "Journalist of the year" in 1982

1980 - Historical Author Won the Somerset Maugham Award for non-fiction for book "Bomber Command". He also won the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year prize for both his historical works "Overlord" and "The Battle for the Falklands".

1982 to 1996 - Editor then Editor-in-Chief Daily Telegraph awarded Editor of the Year in 1988.

1996 to 2002 - Editor Evening Standard after which he retired.

2002 - Knighted (A means by which merit in terms of achievement, or service can be officially recognised)

2002 to 2007 - President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England

2010 - Received the Royal United Services Institute's Westminster Medal for his "lifelong contribution to military literature".

2012 - Awarded the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award, a "lifetime achievement award for military writing".

Enrolled as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and enrolled as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

In retirement Sir Max Hastings has worked occasionally as a COLUMNIST for the Daily Mail as well as for The Guardian, The Sunday Times and the New York Review of Books.

Now if you can read and understand all of that you will now know that counter to what you repeatedly claim:

Sir Max Hastings HAS NEVER worked for the Daily Mail as a JOURNALIST