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Iain James Martin (born 2 October 1971) is a Scottish journalist and author who has held senior positions, including editor, with newspapers in Scotland and England.
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- Iain martin on making it happen fred goodwin a convenient villain for others over rbs failure
- Iain martin on making it happen rbs bankers suffered no moral crisis over collapse
- Life and career
- Works
- Awards and honours
- References
Iain martin on making it happen rbs bankers suffered no moral crisis over collapse
Life and career
He was born in Paisley, and is a graduate of Glasgow University. Martin worked as a reporter for the Sunday Times Scotland (1993–97), as political editor of Scotland on Sunday (1997–2000), political editor of The Scotsman (2000–01), deputy editor of Scotland on Sunday (2001), editor of The Scotsman (2001–04), editor of Scotland on Sunday (2004–06), deputy editor of the Sunday Telegraph (2006), and head of comment for the Telegraph Media Group (2008–09). In 2016 he founded and is Editor of pro-market news website Reaction that focuses on commentary and analysis on politics, economics, and culture.
From 2009 to 2011 he was Deputy Editor of the Wall Street Journal Europe, for which he wrote a blog on politics. He moved to the Daily Mail newspaper in 2011 for a short time to write a weekly political column. From early 2017, he took Tim Montgomerie's slot as a weekly commentator in The Times.
Martin is wine critic for The Conservative. He has contributed to Standpoint magazine and the Financial News. His book Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy, on the financial crisis, was published in 2013. Crash, Bang, Wallop: the inside story of London's Big Bang and a financial revolution that changed the world, was published by Sceptre in September 2016. He lives in London.
Martin voted for leaving the European Union at the 2016 referendum.
Works
"Crash Bang Wallop: the inside story of London's Big Bang and a financial revolution that changed the world"