Jonathan Freedland

Jonathan Saul Freedland is a British journalist, who writes for The Guardian. He is the son of Michael Freedland, the biographer and journalist.

Educated at Oxford University, he started his "Fleet Street" career at the short-lived Sunday Correspondent. More recently he contributed to The Daily Mirror during its attempt to move upmarket. As well as his weekly column in The Guardian since 1997, he pens a monthly piece for the Jewish Chronicle. He also presents BBC Radio 4’s contemporary history series, The Long View. He was named Columnist of the Year in the 2002 What the Papers Say awards.

Author of Bring Home the Revolution: How Britain Can Live the American Dream published in 1998, an argument in favour of the UK adopting a Republican constitution. Freedland has been instrumental in The Guardian's adopting a more anti-monarchical attitude in recent years.

His latest book is Jacob's Gift, a memoir telling the stories of three generations of his own family as well as exploring wider and urgent questions of identity and belonging.

Works

• Jacob's Gift: A Journey into the Heart of Belonging (Hamish Hamilton, 2005), ISBN 0241142431
• Bring Home the Revolution: The Case for a British Republic (Fourth Estate, 1998) ISBN 1857025474

External links

• Official site
• Open Directory project – Jonathan Freedland directory category