Jonathan Fryer, Liberal Democrat politician, foreign correspondent and prolific author – obituary
He reported from 160 countries, contributed to Radio Four’s From Our Own Correspondent and was part of the BBC’s Gulf War coverage
Jonathan Fryer standing as a candidate in the European elections, 1984
Jonathan Fryer, who has died aged 70, was a journalist, broadcaster, author and academic specialising in world affairs; he chaired the London Liberal Democrats, and as a Quaker featured on Radio Four’s Thought for the Day.
Fryer fought five general elections and eight for the European Parliament, twice coming close to winning a seat at Strasbourg. His professional grounding was seven years in Brussels covering the EEC and Nato. He reported from 160 countries, and contributed to Radio Four’s From Our Own Correspondent.
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Michael Bourdeaux, who has died aged 87, founded Keston College in Bromley, south-east London, in 1969 as a centre for the study and dissemination of reliable information about religion in communist countries. He described the college in his memoirs as “my concept”, and poured into it his “energy and commitment over a period of 30 years”. It was an organisation that rattled the Soviet authorities; indeed Oleg Gordievsky, the Soviet double agent who once worked for the KGB and escaped to the west in the boot of a car, claimed at a Keston AGM that it was No 2 in the hierarchy of KGB hates, the first being Amnesty International.
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