Martin Kettle
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Martin James Kettle (born September 7, 1949) is a British journalist and author. The son of two prominent communist activists Arnold Kettle (best remembered as a literary critic) (1916-86) and Margot Kettle (née Gale) (1916-95), Martin Kettle was educated at Leeds Modern School and Balliol College, Oxford University.
Kettle worked for the National Council for Civil Liberties as a research officer from 1973. He then began his career in journalism as home affairs correspondent for New Society (1977-81) 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.
Kettle is best known as a columnist for his newspaper, where he is Assistant Editor, having worked as the newspaper's Washington Bureau chief 1997-2001. He was formerly a leader writer (1993-97) and chief leader writer 2001 onwards. Martin Kettle has often defended New Labour and Tony Blair (a personal friend) - though not over the Iraq war. He has regularly been criticised by John Pilger for what he see as Kettle's contorted arguments, but has also been praised by several commentators for his writings.
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- Peter Hain, Martin Kettle (et al) (1979) Policing the Police ISBN 0-7145-3628-8 John Calder (rev ed 1980 ISBN 0-7145-3795-0)
- Martin Kettle & Lucy Hodges (1982) Uprising!: Police, the People and the Riots in Britain's Cities ISBN 0-330-26845-7 Macmillan
- Martin Kettle (ed) (1993) Guardian Guide to Europe ISBN 1-85702-119-3 Fourth Estate
- Martin Kettle (1997) The Single Currency: Should Britain Join? ISBN 0-09-977351-1 Vintage
