Alan Watkins

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Alan Watkins (born 1933) is a Welsh-born political columnist for the London newspaper The Independent on Sunday who also writes about rugby.

Born in Tycroes, Carmarthenshire, he was educated at Tycroes Primary School, Amman Valley Grammar School and then studied law at Queen's College, Cambridge.http://www.terrynorm.ic24.net/alan%20watkins.htm

He is the author of A Short Walk Down Fleet Street, Meacher vs Trelford and Others, and A Conservative Coup. Most of his long career as a commentator was spent at The Observer newspaper, but he has also written for The Sunday Express, The Spectator, the New Statesman, the Sunday Mirror, and the London Evening Standard.

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