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Nicholas Comfort

Nicholas Comfort was Government adviser at QinetiQ plc for over three years. Prior to that he worked as a Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Scotland. Other consultative positions include being a Presentational Consultant on Europe for the Department of Trade and Industry, and a Public Affairs Consultant with Politics International. Recent clients include Unisys, the Association of Train Operating Companies, Montrose Associates, Burson-Marsteller, Hakluyt and CNN.

Nicholas is also a very well known journalist. Senior positions include being Political Editor of the Daily Record, the European, and the Independent on Sunday. He was the Leader Writer for the Daily Telegraph, and has worked in their Washington bureau, and as a member of their political staff, their London staff, and as the paper's Midlands Correspondent. He currently works for the Daily Telegraph as their Obituarist. He has also worked as a lobby journalist, and presented programmes on Radio 4.

His books include

  • The Channel Tunnel and its High-Speed Links (Oakwood Press, 2006).
  • The Politics Book (Politico's, 2005).
  • How to handle the Media (Politico's, 2003).
  • The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway (Oakwood Press, 1997).
  • The Lost City of Dunwich (Terence Dalton, 1994).
  • Brewer's Politics (Cassell, 1993).
  • The Tunnel: The Channel and Beyond (co-author; Ellis Horwood, 1987)