13 Facts About Madeleine Bunting

1.

Madeleine Clare J Bunting was born on March 1964 and is an English writer.

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Madeleine Bunting was formerly an associate editor and columnist at The Guardian newspaper.

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3.

Madeleine Bunting has written five works of non-fiction and two novels.

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4.

Madeleine Bunting's ancestry is English, Irish, Scottish, and, through her maternal grandmother, Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jewish.

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5.

The fourth of five children, Madeleine Bunting was the youngest daughter from John and Romola's marriage; the couple separated in 1978.

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6.

Madeleine Bunting was appointed director of the London-based think tank Demos in June 2006 but resigned shortly after, owing to differences with the trustees.

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7.

Madeleine Bunting returned to The Guardian and wrote a history of an area where she grew up.

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Madeleine Bunting was well known for opposition to the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, she played a key role in drawing new voices into the media from the British Muslim community and won a Commission for Racial Equality award for her work in this area.

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9.

Madeleine Bunting won several One World media awards for her work on global inequality and development.

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10.

Madeleine Bunting was known for her advocacy of religious belief from a liberal position and her rejection of atheism; she argues that new atheists' antipathy to religion makes it impossible for them to criticise it effectively.

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11.

Madeleine Bunting was awarded a Lambeth degree by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 2006 in recognition of her journalism.

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12.

Madeleine Bunting believes the moral authority of the Roman Catholic Church is irreversibly compromised.

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13.

Madeleine Bunting was formerly married to Patrick Wintour of The Guardian.

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