Seumas Milne

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Seumas Milne is a columnist and associate editor at The Guardian newspaper. He is the younger son of the former BBC Director General Alasdair Milne.

Milne worked as a staff journalist on The Economist after studying economics and politics at the universities of Oxford and London. He has long been on the staff of The Guardian newspaper, having been Labour Correspondent, Labour Editor, and Comment Editor for six years (2001-7). Since March 2007, he has been an associate editor at the newspaper and a weekly columnist.

Seumas Milne is the author of The Enemy Within: MI5, Maxwell and the Scargill Affair (1995, a new edition appeared with the subtitle Thatcher's Secret War Against the Miners in 2004) and co-authored Beyond the Casino Economy: Planning for the 1990s (1989) with Nicholas Costello and Jonathan Michie.

His political stance is of the left, particularly of the kind asociated with George Galloway.