Jeremy Dear was the General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists in Great Britain and Ireland, from 2001 to 2011.
He has a reputation as one of the Awkward Squad of left-wing trade unionists. He is married to Paula Dear (née Jolly) who is a journalist with the BBC. Jeremy Dear is a supporter of the marxist newspaper Socialist Appeal.
Famous quotes containing the word dear:
“The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us.... Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.”
—Paul Gauguin (1848–1903)