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Full name: George Walden
Area of interest: International affairs and politics
Journals/Organisation: The Times | The Daily Telegraph
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- also writes/has written for: The Scotsman, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph and The Daily Telegraph
Other roles/Main role: occasional columnist and book reviewer at New Statesman
Other activities: Conservative MP for Buckingham 1983-1997 (ret)
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Viewpoints/Insight: My Mentor: Celia Walden on George Walden - 'My father was adamant that certain kinds of words should never be written' - The Independent, 4th August 2008
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Controversy/Criticism: George Walden is a Pub Bore - Iain Dale's Diary, 24th September 2004
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Other: Father of Daily Telegraph writer Celia Walden
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Latest work: China: A Wolf in the World? (Gibson Square) OCLC225448282, 2008
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- My cherished old phone has to ring the changes - Techno-nerds can keep their hi-tech gizmos, says Celia Walden, and she will keep her state-of-the-ark relic of a phone - 26th February 2013
- When 'the world’s first supermodel’ tried it on - A banshee-like shriek from the next changing cubicle announced a Beverly Hills woman was in the mood for shopping - 4th December 2012
- The fashion parade that will last four more years - For Sasha and Malia Obama, being regular fixtures on the fashion pages will be a mixed blessing - 20th November 2012
- A time for the French to keep their heads - François Hollande may harbour dreams of a new revolution, but how will he pay for it - 9th May 2012
- Any self-respecting political guru would abolish himself - The trouble with these free thinkers is that their ideas are nonsense or impractical - 6th January 2012
- Dave, another rich kid selling 'harmless' pap - The new hypocrisy has well-born folk indulging the lowest tastes and values while insisting it does society no damage - 11th September 2011
- Barack Obama is powerless: he might as well bask on the beach - The US President is burdened by unrealistic expectations and a terrible economic inheritance - 20th August 2011
- Europe has flunked its first foreign policy test - It was an ad hoc alliance, not a supranational federation, that came to Benghazi’s rescue - 29th March 2011
- Selling arms will always backfire on Britain - A former Tory minister says a rethinking of our attitude to the weapons trade might not be popular but is long overdue - 2nd March 2011
- Fashion must resist the pull of the new bleak - Let’s ignore the grumbling of the anti-fashionistas and be glad that Britain has style - 20th September 2010
- Poor children still can’t get into our better universities - When Tories send their kids to the new state schools, I’ll shut up - 20th May 2010
- You want the truth? Here’s my anti-manifesto - No politician would dare to suggest these brutally realistic proposals on the NHS, housing and education - 15th April 2010
- Scandal, waste and waffle of EU diplomacy - A new legion of ambassadors will dangerously diminish Europe’s voice in the world - 16th March 2010
- Education: the high fly, the rest sink. And no one acts - Selection by ability, normal in most countries, has become selection by cash. This is insular, hypocrital and damaging - 24th February 2010
- Google was right to do a deal with Beijing - And it’s now right for the company to withdraw because the moral wind in China has changed - 14th January 2010
- Remember the opium wars - Britain is in a poor position to condemn Shaikh's execution with its history of drug dealing to China - 30th December 2009
- Hardliners realise Britain is a soft touch - The Tzipi Livni fiasco illustrates how slavishly this country follows hypocritical UN edicts - 17th December 2009
- A bogus, ludicrous, overpriced job - We do not need an EU president. Ministers can operate better without a figurehead in the way - 19th November 2009
- At last we’re getting our heads out of the sand - The crises in the City and Westminster have shaken up the ostrich-like British. Good. It’s a first step on the road to recovery - 10th November 2009
- We can’t afford the moral high ground - In tough economic times, Britain cannot be too picky about whom it does business with - 22nd September 2009
- Polys were not universities (and shouldn't be) - Graduates face a lethal mix of mushy degrees, recession and debt. We urgently need the real expertise of polytechnics - 24th February 2009
- Protectionism could destroy us all - Governments will need huge reserves of political will and an internationalist spirit to resist putting restrictions on free trade, says George Walden - 31st January 2009
- It might get better sooner than we think - This is the ‘light and fast' century, so ignore the mediocre minds who predict a prolonged slump - 1st January 2009
- Think Tank: New ideas for the 21st Century: Bring on the culture crunch - A dose of austerity may improve the arts - 30th November 2008
- After the credit crunch – the arts crunch? - Hyperbole and boosterism have obscured the sad truth about the so-called renaissance of the arts in Britain - 26th November 2008
- Our biggest black hole was in the budget - The former science minister recalls a collision with the high priests of particle physics - 11th September 2008
- An Identikit parade of young pretenders - A glance at the fresh-faced David Miliband, David Cameron, James Purnell and Nick Clegg might make you think that the policemen are getting younger, and they are - not in age but certainly in appearance, demeanour and experience - 20th August 2008
- How Chairman Mao led China to humiliation - The Great Helmsman's mishandling of the nuclear crisis with the Soviet Union was a turning point in world history - 6th August 2008
- Don't vote for London Mayor - The candidates are uniformly dreadful - and only about a third of Londoners vote anyway - 9th April 2008
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