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  • Jonathan Aitken was a Conservative MP from 1974 to 1995, and a cabinet minister in John Major's government. He was convicted of perjury in 1999 following a failed libel suit against the Guardian, and served seven months in prison. He has written a two-volume autobiography, and biographies of Richard Nixon and Charles W Colson.
    (source: The Guardian)
  • Jonathan Aitken has written articles published in The Independent, MailOnline, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.

Most Recent article

Face to faith

The Guardian, Saturday 30 January
Once the Chilcot inquiry establishes the truth about Iraq, we should be quick not to judge, but to forgive

Jonathan Aitken has written...

  • More about 'nixon' than anything else
  • A lot about 'chilcot' in the last month

Jonathan Aitken by numbers...

  • 10 articles (since July 2007)
  • Average article: 34 column inches (1034 words)
  • Shortest article: 7 column inches (218 words)
  • Longest article: 83 column inches (2480 words)
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