Alex Nunns is a British author, editor and political activist.

Life and career

Nunns is political correspondent for '' Red Pepper''; contributing articles on British politics and international developments. He has written for other outlets including ''Le Monde Diplomatique'' and

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. With Nadia Idle, Nunns co-edited ''Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt's revolution as it unfolded, in the words of the people who made it'' (). Published in April 2011, shortly after the initial uprising of the Egyptian Revolution that overthrew

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, ''Tweets from Tahrir'' was the first book to use content from Twitter as the basis for a historical narrative. The book received wide praise, including from

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of ''The Independent'' and

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of ''The New York Times''. It was shortlisted for the

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for Radical Publishing in May 2012. In February 2012, the book inspired a TV documentary by Al Jazeera English. Nunns' book on

Jeremy Corbyn Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (; born 26 May 1949) is a British politician who served as Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom), Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party (UK), Leader of the Labour Party from 2015 to 2020. On the pol ...

’s rise to the leadership of the Labour Party, ''The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power'', was first published in 2016. It won the 2017 Bread and Roses Award. Robert Potts in ''

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'' praised the book as a "very well-researched narrative" that was "widely sourced", commenting that “The story of how such an other-worldly figure became leader of the party simply by being himself is an oddly electrifying one”. Stephen Bush of the ''

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'' wrote that "Corbyn is at last given a wholly sympathetic hearing", the work being "the most authoritative yet published on his rise", but criticised it for a "lack of fluency around the animating issues of the Labour right".

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, in ''The Guardian'', included ''The Candidate'' in an article about the best books on politics of 2016.

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