Alex Nunns

Alex Nunns is a British writer, editor, political activist and musician.

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• Alex Nunns talking about his book The Candidate
• Alex Nunns author of The Candidate on Daily Politics 20 02 2018
• References

Nunns attended a state comprehensive school before reading History at Robinson College, Cambridge receiving a first class degree with distinction.

Nunns is political correspondent for Red Pepper; he contributes articles on British politics as well as international developments to the magazine. and has written for other outlets including openDemocracy and the Transnational Institute.

With Nadia Idle, Nunns co-edited Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt's revolution as it unfolded, in the words of the people who made it (ISBN 978-1-935928-45-4). Published in April 2011, shortly after the initial uprising of the Egyptian Revolution that overthrew Hosni Mubarak, Tweets from Tahrir was the first book to use content from Twitter as the basis for a historical narrative. Among others, Robert Fisk of The Independent praised it. and was shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing in May 2012. In February 2012, the book inspired a TV documentary by Al Jazeera English. Nunns edited Norman Finkelstein's book Knowing Too Much (ISBN 978-1-935928-43-0) published in June 2012.

Nunns is a campaigner against the privatisation of the National Health Service. He authored the Keep Our NHS Public campaign pamphlet The 'Patchwork Privatisation' of our health service: A users' guide.

Nunns' book on Jeremy Corbyn, The Candidate, was published in 2016. Stephen Bush of the New Statesman wrote that "Corbyn is at last given a wholly sympathetic hearing", the work being "the most authoritative yet published on his rise", but Nunn's "lack of fluency around the animating issues of the Labour right makes The Candidate an imperfect read". Gaby Hinsliff, in The Guardian, included The Candidate in an article about the best books on politics of 2016, but warned it is "not for those curious as to why the glorious revolution seems to be stalling with the voters".

A songwriter, guitarist and music producer, Nunns has toured and released records in bands including Dead Monroe. and The Bookoo Movement.