Jonathan Freedland

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Jonathan Saul Freedland (born February 25, 1967) is a British journalist, who writes a weekly column for The Guardian and a monthly piece for the Jewish Chronicle. Freedland has previously written for The Daily Mirror and as of September 2005, he writes each Thursday for the London Evening Standard. Born into a Jewish family, he is the son of Michael Freedland, the biographer and journalist.

Educated at University College School, a boys' independent school in Hampstead, London, and at Wadham College at the University of Oxford, he started his 'Fleet Street' career at the short-lived Sunday Correspondent. He also presents BBC Radio 4’s contemporary history series, The Long View. He was named 'Columnist of the Year' in the 2002 What the Papers Say awards.

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Freedland has published five books: two non-fiction works and three thrillers under the pseudonym Sam Bourne. In 1998 Freedland's first book, Bring Home the Revolution: The case for a British Republic, argued that Britain should reclaim the revolutionary ideals it exported to America in the 18th century, and undergo a constitutional and cultural overhaul. The book won a Somerset Maugham Award for non-fiction and was later adapted into a two-part series for BBC Television. In 2005 he published Jacob's Gift, a memoir telling the stories of three generations of his own family as well as exploring wider questions of identity and belonging.

The Righteous Men, published in 2006, is a religious thriller published under the Bourne 'nom de plume'. The book made a brief appearance in the gossip columns when a damning review[1], by Michael Dibdin, originally written for The Guardian, appeared instead in The Times. The Guardian's ombudsman [2]discovered that when Dibdin originally submitted his review to the Guardian he offered to withdraw it if it were deemed too awkward - an offer the Editor Alan Rusbridger of the Guardian accepted.

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