John MedhurstJohn Medhurst was born in London in 1962 and graduated inHistory and Politics from Queen Mary College, University of London. He has workedat all levels of the British civil service, from front-line welfare delivery toministerial office in Whitehall, ncluding local Job Centres, the InternationalBranch of the Health and Safety Executive (in which he helped deliver assistanceprojects to ex-Soviet Bloc Eastern European countries), and the Department forCulture, Media and Sport. In all of these he was an active trade unionist. Heis now a full-time officer for the UK’s largest civil service trade union, thePublic and Commercial Services Union (PCS).He was elected to PCS’s National Executive Committee 2003-06and for six years was PCS's representative on the European Public ServicesUnion's (EPSU) Public Services Network. He has written for Novara Media, MorningStar, Red Pepper, Green Left and the Journal of Contemporary European Research.He is the author of the highly regarded That Option No Longer Exists: Britain 1974-76,a revisionist history of Britain in the 1970s published by Zero Books in 2014. He is married with two daughters. He lives in Brighton,England. Read More Read Less