Peter Jenkins (journalist)

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Peter Jenkins (11 May, 1934 - 27 May, 1992) was a British journalist. He wrote regular columns for The Guardian, The Sunday Times and The Independent.

He was committed to a vision of a European Britain, anti-communist, but more socially inclusive than the American model of society. He belonged to a group of "Königswinter journalists", who—meeting with politicians and civil servants in Königswinter near Bonn, the then West German capital—attempted to build a pan-European group of opinion-formers, leaving behind the enmities of the past and looking forward to European community.

After the death of his first wife, he married fellow journalist Polly Toynbee. His daughter is Amy Jenkins, author of the cult 1990s TV serial about twentysomething laywers, This Life.

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The Battle of Downing Street. London: Knight, 1970
Where Trotskysm got lost: the restoration of European democracy after the Second World War, Spokesman Pamphlet; 59. Nottingham: Spokesman, 1977.
Mrs Thatcher's revolution: the ending of the socialist era. London: Cape, 1987

Moreover some of his work has been collected in an edited book: Brivati, Brian, and Richard Cockett, eds. Anatomy of decline : the political journalism of Peter Jenkins. Introduction by Polly Toynbee. London: Cassell, 1995.(ISBN 0-304-34476-1).

He also wrote the comedy series "Struggle" (broadcast on Channel 4 from 1983-1984). It was a satire on the Conservative - Labour battles in local government at the time.BBC Guide to Comedy