Andrew Anthony



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Full name: Andrew Anthony

Area of interest: politics, crime, sport, literature, TV and popular culture

Journals: The Observer, The Guardian

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Website: Guardian.co / Andrew Anthony

Blog: Comment is free...

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Career: Has written for The Guardian since 1990 and for The Observer since 1993

Current position/role: feature writer: writes regular profiles, reviews and sports pieces for The Observer


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Other roles: investigative journalist, author

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Viewpoints/Insight: My book upset a few people - and now I'm a racist The Independent, 5th October 2007 (About his controversial polemical memoir, 'The fallout').

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Controversy/Criticism: Seumas Milne: 'Essential misreading - Andrew Anthony is in a fury, but it is a neocon myth that the left has compromised its principles in its opposition to the war on terror' - 20th August 2007. See also: Not Quite There Yet, Matthew Parris, The Spectator, 27th September 2007

Awards/Honours: Feature Writer of the Year, 2000; Sports Writer of the Year, 2003

Other: Married to Louise Chunn, current editor (2008) of Good Housekeeping magazine



Books & Debate:

 * On penalties OCLC 43376237, 2000

Latest work: The fallout: how a guilty liberal lost his innocence OCLC 166384928, 2007

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 * see also On the road motoring column



Articles:

 * cruelty to Obama's family is no excuse for fresh tyranny'' - Obama wouldn't be much of a global leader if he based his diplomatic policy on the injustices done to his family two generations ago - 7th December 2008
 * it away, boys, it isn't big or funny'' - The puerile standard of British humour is put into sharp focus by America's finest comedians - 12th October 2008
 * time has come to say Britain is full'' - There's no excuse for ignoring the present and just now things feel a little cramped in Britain - 31st August 2008
 * The second coming of Iain Duncan Smith - How did the ex-Tory leader become the patron saint of Britain's inner-city kids? - 29th June 2008
 * Are we too clever for our own good? - IQ levels rocketed in the last century, but argument still rages about how our brain power should be tested, and the roles played by genetics, social conditions, culture and even race - 11th May 2008
 * Defective logic - Defending a 'vocabulary of alliance' is all very well, but David Edgar should look more closely at who his allies are before he lambasts 'defectors' - Comment is free, The Guardian - 19th April 2008
 * How Britain turned its back on the white working class - Once celebrated as heroes in plays, books and films, the working classes are now derided as reactionary and bigoted losers - 2nd March 2008
 * He ought to split his church from the state - Rowan Williams's remarks were a strategic attack on secularism from the head of an outdated institution - The Guardian - 12th February 2008
 * Wishful thinking and evasion - Despite what Seumas Milne seems to think, Muslim extremism is a fit topic to tackle for all British citizens - regardless of race or religion - Comment is free, The Guardian - 20th December 2007

