Neil Clark (journalist)
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Neil Clark (born 1966) is a British writer. His work has appeared in a number of newspapers and journals in the UK and overseas, including The Guardian, The Australian, The Daily Telegraph, and Racing and Football Outlook. [1]
Clark teaches International Relations at Oxford Tutorial College, an independent college specializing in A-level and GCSE tuition. [2]
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Personal life and career
Clark obtained a B.Sc. in business studies, history, and politics. [2]
He is married to Zsuzsanna Clark (née Feczko), a freelance writer. [3]
Positions
Clark describes himself as an "unreconstructed leftie". [4]
He opposes British and U.S. policy in the Balkans and the Middle East. He has defended the late Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević, whom he describes as a prisoner of conscience, [5] believing he was "done to death" by poison and that "[w]e are dealing here with murder". [6] He objects to same-sex marriage, an open-door immigration policy, and free abortion on demand. [7] He supports renationalization of railways and hopes that Iran will build nuclear weapons, believing a nuclear-armed Iran would not be very dangerous.[8]
He was quoted by South African President Thabo Mbeki for statistics on living conditions in the former Communist states of Eastern Europe after 1989. [9]
Lawsuit
In 2006 Clark attempted to sue the writer Oliver Kamm for comments Kamm had made on his blog [10] following a critical review of Oliver Kamm's book, published by the Daily Telegraph in 2005.[11]
Notes
- ^ Clark, Neil. "A nanny goat under threat", The Guardian, November 6, 2006.
- ^ a b Staff list, Oxford Tutorial College.
- ^ Clark, Zsuzsanna "Goulash and solidarity", The Guardian, November 2, 2002.
- ^ Clark, Neil. "A vintage year for the left", The Guardian, March 7, 2007.
- ^ "Milosevic, Prisoner of Conscience", New Statesman February 11, 2002
- ^ Clark, Neil "How Milosevic was done to death", Neil Clark blog, March 15, 2006
- ^ "Why the Left and Right Must Unite and Fight: The View from the Left", Antiwar.com April 1, 2003.
- ^ Clark, Neil "A moment of honesty from a western leader", Neil Clark blog, February 2, 2006.
- ^ "Our national season of hope", ANC Today, February 18-24, 2005.
- ^ The Guardian ""Author threatens to sue blogger"", March 22, 2006.
- ^ "Idealism loses its way in double standards and dishonesty", Daily Telegraph, December 31, 2005. This article does not name Clark as the author, but it is corroborated by Clark's blog here.
