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John Rentoul


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John Rentoul (born 1958) is a British journalist who has been the chief political commentator for The Independent on Sunday since February 2004.

He was born in India, where his father was a minister of the Church of South India. Educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School, he studied History and English at King's College, Cambridge and worked on an oil rig before becoming a journalist on Accountancy Age.

Rentoul was a journalist on the New Statesman between January 1983 and May 1988, latterly as Deputy Editor, and a political reporter for BBC's On The Record between 1988 and 1995. He became a political correspondent of The Independent in 1995 and the chief leader writer at The Independent from January 1997 before becoming chief political comment ...more

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Average rating: 3.55 · 244 ratings · 26 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors
Tony Blair: Prime Minister
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The Banned List
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Tony Blair
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Listellany: A Miscellany of...
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Questions to Which the Answ...
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