Francis Wheen

Profile: Full name: Francis James Baird Wheen Area of interest: Freedom of speech and press freedom Journals/Organisation: The Guardian Email: Personal website: Website: Blog: Representation: Networks: https://twitter.com/#!/franciswheen | http://www.facebook.com/people/Francis_Wheen/668271396

Biography: About: http://golden-duck.co.uk/francis-wheen | http://www.clivejames.com/f-wheen - CliveJames.com biography Education: Copthorne Prep School; Harrow School; Royal Holloway College, University of London Career: Began his writing career on Oz magazine. Has since worked for the New Statesman, The Independent, Daily Mirror, Gay News, Today, New Socialist and Tatler, was a regular columnist for the London Evening Standard and wrote the 'Wheen’s World' regular column in The Guardian (named Columnist of the Year, 1997) until 2001 Current position/role: Private Eye: deputy editor and writes for the 'Street of Shame' column, exposing the in-house scandals of stories in Britain's newspapers also writes/has written for: Other roles/Main role: freelance journalist and broadcaster Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Why facts must figure: 'Journalism has been transformed in the past few years. And not always for the better, says Francis Wheen', The Guardian, 25th February 2002 Francis Wheen's Top 10 modern delusions, The Guardian Was a signatory to the declaration of principles of the Euston Manifesto group Broadcast media: Video: see - broadcast work (Wikipedia) and IMDb Controversy/Criticism: see - political views (Wikipedia) Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other:

Books & Debate: The Sixties: a fresh look at the decade of change (1982) OCLC 9384436 Television: a history (1985) OCLC 14412544 The battle for London (1985) OCLC 12424330 Tom Driberg: his life and indiscretions (1990) OCLC 25027061 (shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award) The Vintage book of cats (1993) OCLC 59635368 Lord Gnome's literary companion (1994) OCLC 30971029 Karl Marx: a life (2000) OCLC 43109883 (shortlisted for numerous awards and won the Isaac Deutscher prize) Who was Dr. Charlotte Bach? (2002) OCLC 50214475 Hoo-hahs and passing frenzies: collected journalism, 1991-2001 (2002) OCLC 48418140 (won the George Orwell Prize, 2003) The irresistible con: the bizarre life of a fraudulent genius (2004) OCLC 59272328 How mumbo-jumbo conquered the world (2004) OCLC 53390688 Marx's Das Kapital: a biography (2007) OCLC 154699284 Latest work: Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia (2009) Speaking/Appearances: Current debate:

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Articles: The country's not the place for a quiet life - One wonders how many of these anti-Archers gripers actually live in the countryside - The Independent - 23rd July 2012 The hunting of the snark - A High Court award of damages to an author who received a ‘malicious’ review has raised eyebrows in a literary world more often accused of mutual backslapping - Financial Times - 5th August 2011 Roger Davies obituary - The Guardian - 7th June 2011 Review: How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism, by Eric Hobsbawm - Financial Times - 21st January 2011 State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook - The anxiety and drabness of the country during Heath's reign is laid bare in this vivid book - The Guardian - 26th September 2010 Economic gloom.Terror threats. Strikes. Football hooliganism. Civil liberties strangled: Why Britain's going back to the 70s - Daily Mail - 17th September 2009 The poet of dialectics - Karl Marx's Das Kapital is a ground-breaking work of economic analysis... it is also an unfinished literary masterpiece - The Guardian - 8th July 2006 (book review) Why Marx is man of the moment - He had globalisation sussed 150 years ago - The Observer - 17th July 2005

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