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Edward Pearce is a political journalist and author. In a long newspaper career, he has been a leader writer for the Daily Express (1977-79), a Commons sketch writer and leader writer for the Daily Telegraph (1979-87), a columnist for the Sunday Times (1987-90) and the Guardian (1990-95), and sketch writer for the New Statesman (1990-95). Now living in Yorkshire, he also writes regularly for the Yorkshire Post, and was a panelist on BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze (1991-95). He has authored 13 books, from The Senate of Lilliput (1983) to his latest, The Great Man: A Life of Robert Walpole (2007); latterly his chief preoccupation has been writing history: a biography of Denis Healey (2002), accounts of Irish Home Rule (1999), and the Reform Act (2004); also, as editor, an abridgment of Charles Greville's diaries (2005). He is married to Deanna, a statistician; they have a daughter, Cecily, who is a teacher and jazz singer. Ed's interests include all things classical - music, novels, landscapes. A Yorkshire resident, he supports Lancashire and Oldham Athletic.

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  • 24 Feb 2009:

    Obituary: Widow of 'Rab', she was at the heart of Conservative politics in the early 1960s

  • 25 Jan 2009:

    Edward Pearce: Beryl Bainbridge has criticised the Liverpool accent. That's not the done thing today, but once she would have been applauded

  • 26 Nov 2008:

    Edward Pearce: Instead of willing Darling's budget to fail, Osborne should offer cost-cutting ideas – like cancelling a pointless nuclear deterrent

  • 26 Nov 2008:

    Obituary: Politician far removed from the stereotype of a Conservative MP

  • 16 Nov 2008:

    Edward Pearce: Tittle tattle over the shadow chancellor George Osborne's future helps no one but the Labour party

  • 24 Oct 2008:

    Obituary: Self-made working-class Tory MP known for rightwing views bluntly expressed

  • 27 Aug 2008:

    Edward Pearce: The world's pundits are once again pitting Russia against its old foe – but what is 'the west'? Is it Nato, or something more?

  • 11 Aug 2008:

    Edward Pearce: Failure to properly close a rubbish bin ought not to be a crime but meddling, finger-clicking legislators have turned it into one

  • 26 May 2008:

    Edward Pearce: Gordon Brown's real crisis is the maturing of public revulsion at the entirety of the New Labour project

  • 21 May 2008:

    Edward Pearce: The economic crisis is rooted in a kind of trading that has very little to do with the real world. What comes next is anybody's guess

  • 3 May 2008:

    Virago's other half | Logging in to the library | The best of Vonnegut | Good riddance? | Defending Hobsbawm | Strangers on a train

  • 2 May 2008:

    Edward Pearce: Local elections 08: The genre of all-night election TV coverage is pure comedy - somewhere between farce and shaggy-dog story

  • 19 Apr 2008:

    Obituary: Veteran Labour MP who was a strident critic of misgovernment

  • Gwyneth Dunwoody 18 Apr 2008:

    Labour MP who criticised misgovernment and mismanagement and became champion of public interest

  • 18 Apr 2008:

    Edward Pearce: The kind of cricket played in the new Indian Premier League may pull in the crowds, but it's a world away from the skill and gentility of the game I know

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