Peter Jenkins (11 May, 1934 - 27 May, 1992) was a British journalist. He wrote regular columns for The Guardian, The Sunday Times and The Independent. The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International which is in turn owned by News Corporation. ... The Independent is a British compact newspaper published by Tony OReillys Independent News & Media. ...

He was committed to a vision of a European Britain, anti-communist, but more socially inclusive than the American model of society. He belonged to a group of "Königswinter journalists", who—meeting with politicians and civil servants in Königswinter near Bonn, the then West German capital—attempted to build a pan-European group of opinion-formers, leaving behind the enmities of the past and looking forward to European community.

After the death of his first wife, he married fellow journalist Polly Toynbee. His daughter is Amy Jenkins, author of the cult 1990s TV serial about twentysomething laywers, This Life. Polly Toynbee (born Mary Louisa Toynbee on December 27, 1946) is a journalist and writer with social democratic views in the United Kingdom, and has since 1998 been a columnist for The Guardian newspaper. ... This Life was a BBC television drama series, produced by World Productions and screened on BBC Two, running for two series in 1996 and 1997. ... This Life was a BBC television drama, produced by World Productions and screened on BBC Two, running for two series in 1996 and 1997 and a reunion special in 2007. ...

Works

• The Battle of Downing Street. London: Knight, 1970
• Where Trotskysm got lost: the restoration of European democracy after the Second World War, Spokesman Pamphlet; 59. Nottingham: Spokesman, 1977.
• Mrs Thatcher's revolution: the ending of the socialist era. London: Cape, 1987

Moreover some of his work has been collected in an edited book: Brivati, Brian, and Richard Cockett, eds. Anatomy of decline : the political journalism of Peter Jenkins. Introduction by Polly Toynbee. London: Cassell, 1995.(ISBN 0-304-34476-1).

References

Marr, Andrew. My trade. A short history of British journalism. London: Pan Macmillan, 2005. (p. 354 ff.)