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James Meek has written for a number of newspapers and magazines, and is currently a contributing editor to the London Review of Books. He published his first short stories in the early 1980s, while a student at Edinburgh University. His first novel, McFarlane Boils The Sea, was published in 1989. Since then he has published six more works of fiction: Last Orders (stories, 1992) Drivetime (a novel, 1995) The Museum Of Doubt (stories, 2000) The People’s Act of Love (a novel, 2005) We Are Now Beginning Our Descent (a novel, 2008) and The Heart Broke In (2012). People’s Act, which was published in thirty countries, was longlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje prize and the Scottish Arts Council book of the year prize. Descent won the 2008 Le Prince Maurice Prize. The Heart Broke In was shortlisted for the 2012 Costa Prize. Taken from JamesMeek.net
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How We Happened to Sell Off Our Electricity Human Revenue Stream In Oxford, Mississippi The Debt Quilt Diary Short Cuts
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Christina Patterson is a writer, broadcaster and columnist. She writes about politics, society, culture, books and the arts. She has interviewed writers and artists ranging from Martin Amis to Eddie Izzard and Werner Herzog, and did the first interview after he left office with Gordon Brown. A former director of the Poetry Society, and literary programmer at the Southbank Centre, she has written for the Observer, the Sunday Times, the Guardian, Time, the Spectator and the New Statesman. She’s a regular commentator on radio and TV news programmes, a regular reviewer on the Sky News press preview, and a regularguest on cultural programmes including BBC 2′s The Review Show. She has also campaigned to improve standards in nursing in a series of articles in The Independent, by speaking at conferences, and in programmes she has made, including a documentary for Radio 4 and a film for The One Show. After 10 years on the staff of The Independent, she is now freelance.
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The nurses who taught an ailing hospital how to care A crisis in nursing: Six operations, six stays in hospital – and six first-hand experiences of the care that doesn’t care enough More nurses, better paid than ever – so why are standards going down? How can a profession whose raison d’être is caring attract so much criticism for its perceived callousness? Does nursing need to be managed differently? Or is the answer to develop a new culture of compassion? Reforms in the 1990s were supposed to make nursing care better. Instead, there’s a widely shared sense that this was how today’s compassion deficit began. How did we come to this? Anne Milton: ‘We need to raise the bar’
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Andrew Norfolk is The Times journalist instrumental in breaking the Rotherham grooming scandal. He recently won the Paul Foot Award for investigative journalism.
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Abigail Haworth is an Asia-based senior international editor at Marie Claire USA. She covers global women’s issues, sex, society and regularly contributes to The Observer Magazine. In 2010 Abigail won the Overseas Press Club Award.
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From war babies to Billionaires Sex, drugs and shattered skulls 15 in a billion The day I saw 248 girls being circumcised The Help Where the boys are
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Tom Bergin is a Reuters journalist who writes about corporate and economic affairs. He is also the author of ‘Spills & Spin: The Inside Story of BP’, a critically-acclaimed history of the British oil major. In March 2013, he was named “Business Journalist of the Year” at the British Press Awards and has also won a Society of American Business Editors and Writers award for explanatory reporting. Tom is a regular contributor on television and radio in the UK and overseas.
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David Gardner is the FT‘s international affairs editor and author of Last Chance: The Middle East in the Balance. He was the paper’s Middle East editor from 1995-99. In 2003 he won the David Watt prize for political journalism for his writing on the Arab world.
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The seismic tussles that will shape the Middle East Lebanon can overcome its divisions to deter Syria Assads regime is finished do not mourn its passing Febrile and fragmented Hollow victory Autonomy under fire
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Ian Cobain has been a journalist since the early 1980s. He is a senior reporter on the Guardian. His inquiries into the UK’s involvement in torture since 9/11 have won a number of major awards, including the Martha Gellhorn Prize and the Paul Foot Award for investigative journalism. He has also won several Amnesty International media awards. His first book, Cruel Britannia was released last year.
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RAF helicopter death revelation leads to secret Iraq detention camp How secret renditions shed light on MI6’s licence to kill and torture Rendition ordeal that raises new questions about secret trials Army ‘waterboarding victim’ who spent 17 years in jail is cleared of murder Northern Ireland loyalist shootings: one night of carnage, 18 years of silence
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Clare Sambrook is a freelance, and a current contributor to openDemocracy, Private Eye and The Guardian. In 2010 Clare won both the Paul Foot Award and the Bevins Prize for outstanding investigative journalism for her work exposing government attempts to mislead Parliament and the public about the forcible arrest and detention of asylum-seeking families. With six friends she co-founded the citizens’ campaign End Child Detention Now. Her acclaimed debut novel, Hide & Seek, came out in more than a dozen languages in 2005, becoming a New York Times editor’s choice and a Daily Mail book club selection.
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The UK Border Agency’s long, punitive campaign against children (helped by G4S and Serco) How many children secretly deported under UK Border Agency’s Gentleman’s Agreement? UK policymaking outsourced: the curious case of adoption reform Corporate Power stamps its brand on British Policing Who should investigate murder — the police, or a private security company? A child, a bleeding anus, interrogation by the UK Border Agency
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John Arlidge is a freelance journalist who writes for the Sunday Times in London and for Conde Nast in New York.
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The Lion’s Roar The Debt Collector Twin Towers Show us the money, comrade
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Kim Sengupta is the Defence and Diplomatic Correspondent of The Independent. He covers international and domestic news and his extensive reporting from around the world has included many of the major conflicts in recent times.
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Posted on February 28, 2012 by The Orwell Prize -
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Established as one of the most influential political commentators in the country, Steve Richards became The Independent’s chief political commentator in 2000 having been political editor of the New Statesman. He presents GMTV’s flagship current affairs show The Sunday Programme and Radio 4’s Week in Westminster. Submitted articles The man who should speak remains silent Let the people decide. Unless we decide not to Demanding Theresa May’s head on a plate solves nothing The Sceptics’ rage over Europe is a proxy battle Politicians are finally free from Murdoch’s tyranny Can the big society work? Other links Steve Richards on Journalisted Steve Richards on Twitter
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Longlisted articles published by the Irish Times and openDemocracy Fintan O’Toole is assistant editor of The Irish Times and author of ‘Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Killed the Celtic Tiger’. He has written for The Irish Times since 1988 and was drama critic for the New York Daily News from 1997 to 2001. Submitted articles Triumph of the spivs as democracy is sidelined Reckless, feckless and feral employer is all talk, talk Citizens trapped in a two-state nightmare The week that Anglophobia died Obama not just another excuse for blarney Into Europe Other links Fintan O’Toole on Journalisted Fintan O’Toole
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Longlisted for articles published by The Spectator and Daily Telegraph and broadcast by Channel 4 Peter Oborne is a journalist and author who joined The Telegraph in 2010 after writing for some years for the Daily Mail. He has also written for Prospect, The Observer, The Independent, the Evening Standard and the Sunday Mirror. His books include The Rise of Political Lying and The Triumph of the Political Class, and biographies of Alastair Campbell and Basil D’Oliveira, the latter being named the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2004.
Submitted articles The great euro swindle What the papers won’t say The moral decay of our society is as bad at the top as the bottom Baroness Warsi was right to speak out: Hatred of Muslims is one of the last bastions of British bigotry Russia: Vlad’s Army Other links Peter Oborne on Journalisted
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