Richard D. North

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Richard D. North is a UK conservative commentator. He worked for The Independent newspaper as its first environment correspondent (1986-1990) and then as environmental columnist for The Sunday Times (1990-1992). His book, "Life On a Modern Planet: A manifesto for progress" (Manchester University Press, 1995) was widely regarded - for instance by Fiona Fox, writing in The Tablet [1]- as a renunciation of his earlier "green" credentials. He now works with the free-market thinktank, the Institute of Economic Affairs (as media fellow) and with the conservative Social Affairs Unit, where he blogs on art, film and social issues.

North is a provocative public speaker who has occasionally uspet a minority within his audiences with a deliberate lack of political correctness.

The Social Affairs Unit has published North's "Rich Is Beautiful: A very personal defence of Mass Affluence" (2005) and his "Mr Blair's Messiah Politics: Or what happened when Bambi tried to save the world" (2006). His "'Scrap the BBC!': Ten years to set broadcasters free" will be published by the SAU in January, 2007.

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