Links of Interest

The Communicators
The Communicators - Progressive media solutions (principals: Francis Beckett, Eddie Barrett, Duncan Milligan)

University of the Third Age
The Third Age Trust is the national representative body for the Universities of Third Age (U3As) in the UK. U3As are self-help, self-managed lifelong learning co-operatives for older people no longer in full time work, providing opportunities for their members to share learning experiences in a wide range of interest groups and to pursue learning not for qualifications, but for fun.

Fire Brigades Union
The trade union for firefighters

Blogs I like

Nicholas Jones
For exposes of political and marketing spin.

Iain Dale’s Diary
For the best informed political gossip around.

Jon Slattery
No one knows as much about the media without having sold out to it.

David Hencke
The man Alan Rusbridger rightly called “the best investigative journalist of his generation” now pours many of his stories into a startlingly original blog.

Fiona Millar
The great education campaigner’s blog is called the Truth About Our Schools and that’s just what it tells.

Melissa Benn
Author of School Wars, the only book to challenge the cosy consensus around school privatisation.

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Publishers of my books

Haus Publishing
The publisher of the series, Prime Ministers of the Twentieth Century, also published my short biographies of Aneurin Bevan, Harold Macmillan, and Laurence Olivier. Is also one of London’s bravest and most interesting small publishing houses.

University of the Third Age
The Third Age Trust is the national representative body for the Universities of Third Age (U3As) in the UK. U3As are self-help, self-managed lifelong learning co-operatives for older people no longer in full time work, providing opportunities for their members to share learning experiences in a wide range of interest groups and to pursue learning not for qualifications, but for fun.

Biteback Publishing
Biteback is a major new political and current affairs publisher, founded by political blogger Iain Dale. It has published three of my books, including What Did the Baby Boomers Ever Do For Us.

Samuel French
Samuel French have been publishing, selling and leasing plays for performance since 1830.

Its list includes two of my plays, Money Makes You Happy and The Right Honourable Lady.

Constable and Robinson
Publishers of Marching to the Fault Line, the history of the 1984-5 miners’ strike, written by Francis Beckett and David Hencke.