Ian Jack

Ian Jack has taken leave of his Guardian column to start work on a much delayed book.

In the LRB Archive:

• Why did we not know?: Who is hoarding the land? · 23 May 2019

  • The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain by Brett Christophers

• A Country Emptied: The Highland Clearances · 7 March 2019

  • The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed 1600-1900 by T.M. Devine

• Time for Several Whiskies: BBC Propaganda · 30 August 2018

  • Auntie’s War: The BBC during the Second World War by Edward Stourton

• Now to Stride into the Sunlight: The Brexiters · 15 June 2017

  • What Next: How to Get the Best from Brexit by Daniel Hannan
  • The Bad Boys of Brexit: Tales of Mischief, Mayhem & Guerrilla Warfare in the EU Referendum Campaign by Arron Banks
  • All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class by Tim Shipman

• The Best Stuff: David Astor · 2 June 2016

  • David Astor: A Life in Print by Jeremy Lewis

• Scoop after Scoop: Chapman Pincher’s Scoops · 5 June 2014

  • Dangerous to Know: A Life by Chapman Pincher

• Do you like him?: Ken Livingstone · 10 May 2012

  • You Can’t Say That: Memoirs by Ken Livingstone

• Downhill from Here: The 1970s · 27 August 2009

  • When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies by Andy Beckett

• Cocoa, sir?: The Royal Navy · 2 January 2003

  • Sober Men and True: Sailor Lives in the Royal Navy 1900-45 by Christopher McKee
  • Rule Britannia: The Victorian and Edwardian Navy by Peter Padfield

• Problem Families · 26 October 1989

  • From Moorepark to Wine Alley: The Rise and Fall of a Glasgow Housing Scheme by Sean Damer

• Cheering us up · 15 September 1988

  • In for a Penny: The Unauthorised Biography of Jeffrey Archer by Jonathan Mantle

• Treating the tiger · 18 February 1988

  • Tales from Two Cities: Travel of Another Sort by Dervla Murphy

• Literary Guy · 19 June 1986

  • A North Sea Journey by A. Alvarez

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