Newspaper Articles
November 10th, 2010Sunday Telegraph - 15 January 2012 – I feel emotionally fonder of Mrs Thatcher as the years roll by
The Times – 26th August 2011 – Forget Jacqui Smith. Prisoners need to do a day’s labour
The Times 13th August 2011 – Rioters need the discipline of a tough military jail
Daily Telegraph – Getting out of prison – 4th August 2011
Profile of Jonathan Aitken – Macleans Magazine of Canada
Mail on Sunday Live Magazine – 17 July 2011 – Career Suicide: An Insider’s Guide
Winners Dinners at The Clink – by Michael Winner: Sunday Times 17.7.11
Daily Mail – 24 May 2011 – Confess! Article on Superinjunctions
The Times, 13 January 2011 – Article on Sentencing
The Independent – 8 January 2011 – Article on David Chaytor’s Prison Sentence
News of the World – 26 December 2010 – Article about Tommy Sheridan
The Times – 7 December 2010 – Article on the Green Paper on Criminal Justice
Daily Mail – Jonathan Aitken’s “Letter to My Teacher” to Sister Mary Finbar - 25 November 2010
Financial Times Column by Harry Eyres about Jonathan Aitken in Pentonville – 20 November 2010
The Times – 3 November 2010 – Allowing Prisoners to Have the Vote would be Criminal
The Times – 13 September 2010 – Raking Up The Past Gives Protection to No-One
The Mail on Sunday – 25 July 2010 – Prisons are Full of People Who Shouldn’t Be There
Evening Standard – 22 July 2010 – On Conrad Black’s Release from Prison
The Times – 1 July 2010 – Prison Works: It’s ouside that it all goes wrong
The Daily Mail – 30 May 2010 – Departure of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury
The Sunday Times – 7 March 2010 – Kazakh jails show Aitken way to reform
TheGuardian – 30 January 2010 – The Chilcot Enquiry
The Daily Mail – 23 December 2009 – Spirituality is Making a Comeback
Business Spectator
November 2nd, 2010Jonathan Aitken is now writing a regular monthly column in the Business Spectator Magazine
Its not the economy, stupid! – November 2010
Speeches
June 30th, 2010Sermons
June 30th, 2010American Spectator Articles
July 29th, 2009Here are Jonathan Aitken’s archived articles as a regular columnist for The American Spectator – please click on links below:
Soaring Down Under – December 2011/January 2012
Character and Leadership – November 2011
Return to Grace – October 2011
Sensitive to the Holy Spirit – September 2011
An Arab Spring Model – July/August 2011
The Dark Side of the Arab Spring – June 2011
Working One’s Faith – May 2011
My Daughter’s Sikh Wedding – April 2011
The King James Bible: The Greatest Book in the English Language – March 2011
A Grateful Heart – February 2011
Hear, Hear – December 2010/January 2011
A Christian Statesman – Papal Visit to UK – November 2010
Conrad Black is Free – October 2010
Cardinal Newman – September 2010
Rebirth in Harlem – July/August 2010
On Retreat at St Jacut – June 2010
Mothers Day Observance – May 2010
An American Church in Paris – April 2010
Forgiveness in Hollywood – March 2010
Acts of Forgiveness – January 2010
The Hospital Where I Grew Up – December 2009
Advent is Coming – November 2009
Is Everybody Happy – October 2009
Kazakh Hospitality – September 2009
Sir John Templeton – July/August 2009
National Prayer Breakfast – April 2009
Frost/Nixon Movie – March 2009
At McDonalds Christian Philanthropy – Dec. 2008/Jan. 2009
Godless Capitalism – November 2008
Edinburgh Festival Debates God vs Atheism – October 2008
Checking Islam in the Steppes of Kazakhstan – September 2008
The Geneva School in Orlando – July/August 2008
Tony Blair’s Pilgrim’s Progress – June 2008
Life With the Lectionary Life – February 2008
Memories of 1967 – Dec. 2007/Jan.2008
Let’s Talk About Death – November 2007
Two Georgias on my Mind – October 2007
Blair’s Faith and Future – July/August 2007
Episcopalian Recovery – May 2007
Easter is in the Air – April 2007
The Force Behind Wilberforce – March 2007
The Australian National Prayer Breakfast – February 2007
Soul Development Through Trinity Forum – Dec. 2006/Jan. 2007
Faith in Foreign Affairs – November 2006
British Unfairness to Philip Anschutz – September 2006
The Spirituality of the Sea – June 2006
March 2009
April 2nd, 2009JONATHAN AITKEN’S BLOG FOR MARCH 2009
March was one of the most demanding yet most fulfilling months I can remember. In travel, I made gruelling trips to the US (twice), Moscow and Kazakhstan. The Centre for Social Justice’s Prison Reform Report: Locked Up Potential: A Strategy for Reforming Prisons and Rehabilitating Prisoners was completed and launched, the culmination of 18 months of hard work. I finished my biography of the President of Kazakhstan and delivered it to my publisher, Continuum on time.
1. Other highlights in March included giving four major talks or lectures; receiving a generous prize from Sanford University for my biography John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace and being awarded a munificent grant from the John Templeton Foundation for the future work of Trinity Forum Europe. Quite a month!
2. Locked Up Potential the 273 page report which I chaired at the request of Iain Duncan Smith, the Chairman of CSJ had a positive reception from the media and from interested members of the political community and general public. To obtain an electronic copy of the report click here. To obtain a hard copy please contact Christian Guy:
Email:christian.guy@centreforsocialjustice.org.uk
Tel:020 7340 9653
Address:Centre for Social Justice
9 Westminster Palace Gardens,
Artillery Row,
London, SW1P 1RL
3. Media coverage of Locked Up Potential was good. I was interviewed about the report on the Andrew Marr show (BBC 1 March 23rd) and on numerous radio programmes including Radio 4’s Analysis programme which will be broadcast next month. Several newspapers, both national and provincial, covered the story well. The most favourable (and most surprising!) editorial comment on Locked Up Potential came in a Guardian leader on March 24th In Praise of Jonathan Aitken and in a cover story in the Guardian’s Society section by Erwin James.My belief in miracles has been strengthened by the Guardian’s reports and comment on Locked Up Potential!
4. The next challenge for Locked Up Potential is to get some or all its principal recommendations for reform debated and implemented. Invitations to speak on the reports are flowing in from all sorts of interesting audiences. More on this in future blogs.
5. My next book Nursultan Nazarbayev and The Making of Kazakhstan will be published in June by Continuum. More in later blogs. Enough to say that I found writing this biography equivalent to unearthing a rich treasure trove of new historical and political material. The real story makes Borat boring!
6. In the US I spoke in Naples, Florida and Birmingham Alabama. The latter event was a lecture to receive the John Pollock award for biography from the Beeson School of Divinity at Sanford University for my John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace.
7. The March issue of American Spectator carried my usual monthly column. The subject was Syria
8. The Trinity Forum Europe (TFE) of which I have been Executive Director since 2006 has been given a new impetus by a generous grant for 2009-10 from the John Templeton Foundation.
We will expand our existing educational programs at Oxford and Edinburgh Universities and launch a new Westminster Forum. More in future blogs and on our future TFE website.
9. Other speaking engagements in March included a dinner at Westminster organised by Christian Solidarity Worldwide; a men’s fellowship breakfast at Esher Rugby Club; and a Lent lecture at St George, The Martyr, Holborn.
I have rushed across continents and broadcasting studios far too much in the last four weeks but home life, family life and prayer life have remained strong. Next month and Easter will provide a much needed break for rest and reflection on the challengers of the year ahead.
Jonathan Aitken
FUTURE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS – APRIL 2009
Monday, April 6 – Speak at first night of Holy Week lectures in St Georges, Tron Glasgow
Wednesday, April 22 – Speak at Alpha Course launch, British Transport Police, Camden
Thursday, April 23 – Speak Oak Hill College