Seumas Milne

Seumas Milne (born 1958) is a British journalist and writer based in London. A columnist and associate editor at "The Guardian" newspaper, he is author of a best-selling book about the 1984-5 British miners' strike, "The Enemy Within".

The younger son of the former BBC Director General Alasdair Milne, he attended Winchester College and studied PPE at Balliol College, Oxford and Economics at Birkbeck College, London University. [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardiancontacts/page/0,,328361,00.html Guardian contacts] page for Seumas Milne.] He worked as a staff journalist for three years on "The Economist" before joining the "The Guardian", where he has been a news reporter, Labour Correspondent (Europe), Labour Editor, and was Comment Editor for six years (2001-7).

Since June 2007, Milne has been associate editor of "The Guardian" and a weekly columnist. He has reported for the Guardian from the Middle East, Latin America, Russia, Eastern Europe and South Asia, and also written for "Le Monde Diplomatique" and the "London Review of Books".

Seumas Milne is the author of "The Enemy Within - MI5, Maxwell and the Scargill Affair" (Verso Books, 1994), an investigation into operations by the security services against the leaders of the National Union of Mineworkers during and after the 1984-5 miners' strike. A revised edition was published by Pan/Macmillan in 1995 with the title "The Enemy Within - The Secret War Against the Miners". A third, updated edition under the same title was published by Verso Books in 2004. A "Dispatches" television documentary based on the book, "Spy in the Camp", was broadcast by Channel Four in October 1994.

Milne co-authored "Beyond the Casino Economy: Planning for the 1990s" (1989) with Nicholas Costello and Jonathan Michie, is the author of "Making Markets Work" (ESRC, 1997) and has contributed to several other books, including "Unemployment in Europe" (Academic Press, 1989), edited by Jonathan Michie and John Grieve.

Milne was a member of the national executive of the National Union of Journalists between 1989 and 2000. He was joint winner of the 1999 "What the Papers Say" Scoop of the Year award.

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