Seumas Milne

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Seumas Milne is a Guardian columnist and associate editor. He was the Guardian's comment editor from 2001 to 2007 after working for the paper as a general reporter and labour editor. He has reported for the Guardian from the Middle East, eastern Europe, Russia, south Asia and Latin America. He previously worked for the Economist and is the author of The Enemy Within and The Revenge of History and co-author of Beyond the Casino Economy.
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Mandela has been sanitised by hypocrites and apologists

11 Dec 2013: Seumas Milne: The ANC liberation hero has been reinvented as a Kumbaya figure in order to whitewash those who stood behind apartheid
Politics Weekly podcast: autumn statement and Mandela's legacy

Audio (23min 54sec), 6 Dec 2013:
Mumsnet's Justine Roberts, YouGov's Peter Kellner and the OBR's Robert Chote join Tom Clark to discuss George Osborne's announcements in this year's autumn statement. Plus Seumas Milne and Hugh Muir discuss Nelson Mandela's political legacy
Britain is up to its neck in US dirty wars and death squads

4 Dec 2013:
Seumas Milne: The war on terror is now an endless campaign of drone and undercover killings that threatens a more dangerous world
Is the use of unmanned military drones ethical or criminal? - video debate

Video (5min 01sec), 2 Dec 2013:
Columnist Seumas Milne and Peter Lee, a military expert at Portsmouth University, discuss the moral and political questions raised by drones
America isn't leaving the Middle East, unfortunately

27 Nov 2013:
Seumas Milne: The Iran nuclear deal is a product of the failure of the war on terror. It should at least hand more control to the region's people
Orthodox economists have failed their own market test

20 Nov 2013: Seumas Milne: Students are demanding alternatives to a free-market dogma with a disastrous record. That's something we all need
Unite can't be left to resist Cameron's smear campaign alone

13 Nov 2013: Seumas Milne: David Cameron and the Tory press have launched a retro anti-union drive to damage Ed Miliband. But it won't fly in today's Britain
Forbes calls Vladimir Putin the world's most powerful person. Don't be deluded

31 Oct 2013: Seumas Milne: First thoughts: Putin is claimed by Forbes magazine to be more powerful than Obama. It's fantasy – the US remains overwhelmingly dominant
The grip of privatisation on our vital services has to be broken

29 Oct 2013:
Seumas Milne: From Ineos to energy, vested interests are driving a 30-year failed experiment. Utilities belong in public hands
It's the spies, not the leaks, that threaten our security

23 Oct 2013: Seumas Milne: The NSA-GCHQ machine is about global power, not protecting its citizens. US and British intelligence still fuel the terror threat
Cameron and Miliband: the stampede for a phoney centre ground is now over

1 Oct 2013:
Seumas Milne: Cameron is moving to the right. Miliband is breaking with a failed consensus. That can only be good for democracy
Ed Miliband's critics' real fear is that he will win the election

24 Sep 2013: Seumas Milne: Labour's leader is starting to shape a new social democratic programme. But if he bows to austerity it will be suffocated
If this is economic success for Britain, what would failure look like?

17 Sep 2013:
Seumas Milne: Lib Dems and Tories both claim the upturn as a vindication, but growth means nothing if living standards are in freefall
Politics Weekly podcast: Lib Dem conference preview

Audio (33min 01sec), 12 Sep 2013:
Hugh Muir and guests discuss next week's Liberal Democratic party conference; Ed Miliband's reception at the TUC, and Boris Johnson losing the plot at the London assembly
Labour's links with the unions are its greatest asset

10 Sep 2013: Seumas Milne: The TUC speaks for mainstream Britain. The sooner Miliband digs himself out of this hole, the better for his party