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Martin Kettle

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Martin Kettle
Kettle (left) in 2012
Kettle (left) in 2012
Born (1949-09-07) September 7, 1949 (age 75)
OccupationJournalist, author
EducationLeeds Modern School
Alma materBalliol College, Oxford
Years active1977-

Martin James Kettle (born 7 September 1949) is a British journalist and author. Kettle is best known as for his long associated as an assistant editor and columnist for The Guardian newspaper.

Early life and education

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Kettle is the son of two communist activists, Arnold Kettle (best remembered as a literary critic; 1916–1986)[1] and Margot Kettle (née Gale; 1916–1995. Kettle grew up in Far Headingley was educated at Leeds Modern School.[2] He graduated in modern history from Balliol College, Oxford having matriculated in 1967.[3][4]

Career

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Kettle worked for the National Council for Civil Liberties (now known as Liberty) as a research officer from 1973. He then began his career in journalism as home affairs correspondent for New Society (1977–1981) and moved to The Sunday Times in 1981, working as a political correspondent for three years. He has been with The Guardian since 1984 and also wrote regularly for Marxism Today in its later years. He writes a column on classical music in Prospect magazine.

Kettle is a long-term contributor to for The Guardian, where he is assistant editor, having worked as the newspaper's Washington D.C. bureau chief from 1997 to 2001. He was formerly a leader writer (1993–1997) and chief leader writer from 2001 onward. He has often defended New Labour and Tony Blair (a personal friend) – though not over the Iraq War.[citation needed] Kettle has been dismissed by John Pilger as Blair's "most devoted promoter".[5]

Bibliography

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  • Hain, Peter; Kettle, Martin et al., Policing the Police, 1979, John Calder, ISBN 0-7145-3628-8. Rev. ed. 1980: ISBN 0-7145-3795-0
  • Kettle, Martin & Hodges, Lucy, Uprising!: Police, the People and the Riots in Britain's Cities, 1982, Macmillan, ISBN 0-330-26845-7
  • Kettle, Martin (ed.), Guardian Guide to Europe, 1993, Fourth Estate, ISBN 1-85702-119-3
  • Kettle, Martin, The Single Currency: Should Britain Join?, 1997, Vintage, ISBN 0-09-977351-1

References

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  1. ^ Kettle, Martine (28 July 2011). ""What MI5's records on my father tell us about the uses of surveillance"". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
  2. ^ Kettle, Martin (30 May 2009). "Leeds Modern and ancient". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
  3. ^ "Martin Kettle - Full profile". 2008. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
  4. ^ "Annual Record" (PDF). Balliol College. 2021. Retrieved 15 August 2024.}
  5. ^ Pilger, John (16 May 2005). "Let's face it – the state has lost its mind". New Statesman.
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