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John Kampfner was editor of the New Statesman from 2005-2008 where he won a number of awards, including Current Affairs Magazine Editor of the Year. He is also author of the acclaimed Blair's Wars, which was selected as a book of the year in 2003 by the Times, Sunday Times and Observer.

Kampfner was a correspondent in Moscow and Berlin for nearly a decade for Reuters and the Daily Telegraph. He later became a political correspondent and commentator for the Financial Times and the BBC. A series of documentaries on the Middle East for the BBC earned him the Journalist of the Year award in 2002 and a nomination for the Royal Television Society awards in 2004.