The Highest Earners Need To Be Very Careful About The R-Word
Chris Bowers is worried that an increasing pay gap may lead to a revolution.
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Chris Bowers
Chris Bowers is a journalist and author of Nick Clegg: The Biography.
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Are The Lib Dems Missing The Point Of Their Time In Government?
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About Chris Bowers
Chris Bowers is a writer and broadcaster who has juggled news, sport, the environment and politics over a career spanning nearly 30 years.
Born in the Wirral in 1961, he studied German with History, Linguistics and Music at the University of East Anglia, where he acted alongside Iain Dale in a musical about Berlin in 1983.
Having trained as a news journalist with Thomson Regional Newspapers, he worked in newspapers, local radio and then with BBC Radio, presenting news reports and sports bulletins on Radios 2 and 4. He left in 1990 to become the founder director of the Environmental Transport Association, and he also played a role in the development of the European Federation for Transport and Environment, a Brussels-based umbrella of NGOs for whom he still works today.
Since 1992 he has been best known as a writer and broadcaster on tennis, commentating for the BBC, Eurosport and many other media. He has written several books on tennis, including the first English-language biography of Roger Federer (Blake, 2006). He also runs Tennis Radio Network Ltd, a company providing reporting and commentary services to the tennis world.
Politically, he joined the Liberal Party at age 15, leaving at 20 to pursue his journalistic career, and rejoining the Lib Dems in his mid-30s once he was journalistically established. He is a councillor on Lewes District Council and stood for Parliament in Wealden in 2010. In 2011 he wrote the first biography of Nick Clegg, published by Biteback. But his political interests extend beyond conventional politics - he describes himself as a 'searcher', enjoys looking for new and different approaches to problems, and has written occasional articles for 'Resurgence' magazine.
His other interests are theatre and music (Grade 8 distinction on the violin, Grade 5 merit on the piano), as well as rowing his wooden boat along rivers and lakes. He has one daughter, Tamara (born 2001), and lives in East Sussex. He speaks fluent German and French, plus a smattering of Spanish. He has perfect pitch, a memory for phone numbers, and a lifelong compulsion to 'take out the twists' when walking up or down spiral staircases.