Colin Brown (8 April 1950 - 9 March 2020) was a British author and political journalist. As a journalist, he covered breaking news in

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and

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for more than 30 years. He was political correspondent for ''

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'' between 1979 and 1986, then held the same position at ''

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'' from 1986 to 2000. He then took up the role of Political Editor at ''The Independent on Sunday'' from 2002 to 2004, before being made Political Editor at ''

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'', and then Deputy Political Editor of ''The Independent'' between 2004 and 2008. He now freelances and lives in London. Brown wrote the books: ''Fighting Talk – the biography of

John Prescott John Leslie Prescott, Baron Prescott (born 31 May 1938) is a British politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and as First Secretary of State from 2001 to 2007. A member of the Labour Party, he w ...

'' (Simon & Schuster) and ''Prescott'' (Politico's), ''Whitehall - The Street That Shaped a Nation'' (Simon & Schuster), ''Real Britannia – Our Ten Proudest Years, the Glory and the Spin'' (Oneworld Publications) published in paperback as ''Glory and Bollocks'', ''The Scum of the Earth – What Happened to the Real British Heroes of Waterloo?'' (The History Press, 2015), ''Operation Big - the Race to Stop Hitler's A-Bomb'' (Amberley Publishing, 2016), and ''Lady M the Life and Loves of Elizabeth, Lady Melbourne'' (Amberley Publishing, April 2017).Hurst, Christopher
"Whitehall by Colin Brown"
''The Independent'', London, 11 June 2010. Retrieved 13 May 2013. Brown died on 9 March 2020, after receiving treatment for brain cancer.

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Colin Brown journalist and author
(archived 2016) British male journalists British writers Place of birth missing 1950 births 2020 deaths The Guardian journalists The Independent people {{UK-journalist-stub