Seumas Milne (born 1958) is a British journalist and writer. 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 Secret War Against the Miners, which focuses on the role of MI5 and Special Branch in the dispute.
The younger son of the former BBC Director General Alasdair Milne, he attended Winchester College and read PPE at Balliol College, Oxford and Economics at Birkbeck College, London University.
He worked as a staff journalist for three years on The Economist before joining The Guardian, where he has been a news reporter, Labour Correspondent (Europe), Labour Editor, and Comment Editor (for six years, 2001-7). In the latter role, Milne was described by the left-wing writer Naomi Klein in her book The Shock Doctrine as having turned the Guardian's comment section into a "truly global debating forum" and by the Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan as having edited "the most...... (Read more on Wikipedia)
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