Ian Aitken

Ian Aitken is a former political editor of, and now a columnist for, the Guardian.

In the LRB Archive:

• Gospel Truth on Tony Benn and the end of parliamentary socialism · 19 February 1998

  • The End of Parliamentary Socialism by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys

• They like it there · 5 August 1993

  • Making Aristocracy Work: The Peerage and the Political System in Britain 1884-1914 by Andrew Adonis
  • The House of Lords at Work: A Study Based on the 1988-89 Session edited by Donald Shell and David Beamish

• Toot Sweet · 27 May 1993

  • Tired and Emotional: The life of George Brown by Peter Paterson

• Richly-Wristed · 13 May 1993

  • Changing Faces: The History of the ‘Guardian’, 1956-88 by Geoffrey Taylor

• Prince of Darkness · 28 January 1993

  • Rupert Murdoch by William Shawcross

• Diary · 6 August 1992

• Mrs Thatcher’s Admirer · 21 November 1991

  • Time to declare by David Owen

• Two Men in a Boat · 15 August 1991

  • John Major: The Making of the Prime Minister by Bruce Anderson
  • ‘My Style of Government’: The Thatcher Years by Nicholas Ridley

• Knights of the King and Keys · 7 March 1991

  • A Dubious Codicil: An Autobiography by by Michael Wharton
  • The House the Berrys built by Duff Hart-Davis
  • Lords of Fleet Street: The Harmsworth Dynasty by Richard Bourne

• Diary · 22 March 1990

• Off the hook and into the gutter · 7 December 1989

  • Sunrise: The Remarkable Rise and Rise of the Best-Selling Soaraway ‘Sun’ by Larry Lamb

• Tam, Dick and Harold · 26 October 1989

  • Dick Crossman: A Portrait by Tam Dalyell

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