William Keegan

William Keegan   (journalist, author, academic)
Born	3 July 1938
Alma mater	Trinity College (Cambridge)
He has been writing his influential financial column every Sunday in The Observer for 32 years and has seen off at least six editors.

William James Gregory Keegan is a British journalist and a fiction and non-fiction author. He was Economics Editor of The Observer from 1977 to 2003, and continues to contribute to the paper as a columnist.

Background

William Keegan was educated at Wimbledon College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He completed his national service in the Royal Tank Regiment from 1957 to 1959.

Journalist

William Keegan became a journalist at the Financial Times in 1963; he moved to the Daily Mail in 1964, then returned for a nine-year spell at the Financial Times in 1967. He then worked in the Bank of England Economics Intelligence Department, and as assistant to the Bank's Governor, from 1976 to 1977.

From 1977 to 2003 he was Economics Editor of The Observer; after reaching the age of 65 he continued there as a Senior Economics Commentator.

He has sat on a number of committees and advisory boards, beginning in 1981 on the BBC Advisory Committee on Business and Industrial Affairs.

In 2009 William Keegan received a CBE for services to journalism.

Author

William Keegan has authored two fiction books, in 1974 and 1976, and eight books on economics and politics, between 1978 and 2012.

Fiction

• "Consulting Father Wintergreen" (Unknown, 1974).
• "A Real Killing" (St Martins Press, 1977).

Non-Fiction

• (with Rupert Pennant-Rea), "Who Runs the Economy? Control and Influence in British Economic Policy" (London: Temple Smith, 1979).
• "Mrs Thatcher's Economic Experiment" (London: Allen Lane, 1984; 2nd ed. 1985).
• "Britain Without Oil" (London: Harmondsworth, 1985).
• "Mr Lawson's Gamble" (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1989).
• "The Spectre of Capitalism" (Radius, 1992).
• "2066 and All That: Britain and Europe Sort it Out" (Iynx Publishing, 2000).
• "The Prudence of Mr Gordon Brown" (John Wiley & Sons, 2003).
• "Saving the World? - Gordon Brown Reconsidered" (Searching Finance Ltd, 2012).
• "Mr Osborne's Economic Experiment" (Searching Finance Ltd, 2014).
• (with David Marsh and Richard Roberts), "Six Days in September: Black Wednesday, Brexit and the making of Europe" (OMFIF Press, 2017).

Academic

In 1989 William Keegan became a visiting professor of journalism at the University of Sheffield, and in 2012 a visiting professor of economics at Queen Mary University of London. He is also a visiting professor at The Policy Institute, King's College London, and is involved in The Strand Group seminar series there.

 

Documents by William Keegan

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:Brexit is the villain in accidental death of the economy	Article	6 August 2023	Boris Johnson Bank of England Keir Starmer Brexit Rishi Sunak	The Brexit miscreants who conned the nation just carry on shamelessly, while their replacements, Rishi Sunak and co, take up the banner and Keir Starmer, once a noble remainer, offends his natural followers by ruling out rejoining the EU or even the single market.
Document:Britain didn’t vote Labour just to get a new iron chancellor	Article	4 August 2024	Labour Party Rachel Reeves Brexit Institute for Statecraft Freedom of movement EU single market EU customs union Philip Snowden Office for Budget Responsibility	The economic damage wrought by Brexit continues. Our investment and growth prospects would benefit enormously if Starmer and Reeves abandoned this policy of “no return to the customs union, single market or freedom of movement”. I repeat what I have said before: the Labour manifesto commits it to removing unnecessary barriers to trade. But Brexit is the most formidable barrier of all!
Document:Sunak likes the single market. So why doesn't Labour?	Article	5 March 2023	Keir Starmer Brexit Rishi Sunak EU single market EU customs union Northern Ireland Protocol Windsor Framework	"I had many criticisms of Thatcherism and its impact on unemployment and social harmony, but one thing Margaret Thatcher got right was the importance of the EU single market and attracting Japanese, German and other firms to the UK. All this is now up for grabs by Starmer and his team."
Document:With Brexit, the UK has achieved the gold standard of self-harm	Article	12 June 2022	Brexit Gold standard	Events in the foreign exchange market forced the UK off the gold standard in 1931, under what was by then the National Government. The Labour politician Sidney Webb famously declared afterwards: “Nobody told us we could do that.” Brexit, too, is reversible.

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
WEF/Annual Meeting/2004	21 January 2004	25 January 2004	Switzerland World Economic Forum	2068 billionaires, CEOs and their politicians and "civil society" leaders met under the slogan Partnering for Prosperity and Security. "We have the people who matter," said World Economic Forum Co-Chief Executive Officer José María Figueres.

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