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John Lloyd is contributing editor at the FT. He writes a weekly column - “The Ideas Department” - on current affairs for the FT magazine, of which he was founding editor.
His previous FT posts include Labour Editor, Industrial Editor, East Europe Editor and Moscow Bureau Chief.
He has been a reporter and producer for LWT’s London Programme and Weekend World, and editor of Time Out and the New Statesman magazines.
He sits on the editorial board of Prospect magazine and on the board of the Moscow School of Political Studies.
His books are Loss Without Limit: The British Miners’ Strike (1985); Rebirth of a Nation: an Anatomy of Russia (1998); and What the Media Are Doing to Our Politics (2004).
He was born in Fife in Scotland, lives in London and is married with one son. - -
Murdoch’s plea at the pearly gates
‘The Simpsons’ chooses its objects of satire from across the political and cultural spectrum, and enjoys biting the hands that feed it, writes John Lloyd
Britain behaving badly
There is a pervasive sense that gorging, heavy drinking and indiscriminate sex are ruining new generations, writes John Lloyd
Officers and not such gentle men
John Lloyd gives the lowdown on police dramas and their insistent examination of the nature of evil
The Angel of Grozny
More than a decade after Asne Seierstad saw Chechnya degenerate into a murderous battlefield, the journalist returns and runs across the trauma that remains, writes John Lloyd
White men unburdened
The political shift on race and immigration has spilled into the BBC. Its new series, which focuses on the country’s white working class, might have been kept off the air three years ago for the sake of political correctness, writes John Lloyd
The Age of Television
For Milly Buonanno, a La Sapienza professor, TV is much maligned. This is her treatise on the complexity that can be seen on the US small screen, John Lloyd writes
The wisdom of the soaps
Two great rivals for the nation’s attention – ‘Coronation Street’ and ‘EastEnders’ – were head to head on grief, writes John Lloyd
How the Queen survived censorship, satire and sycophants
She is a worldwide brand, but has also remained a visitor of the aged, a bestower of honours and a 19th century aristocrat, writes John Lloyd
