Seumas Milne - Early Life

Early Life

The younger son of the former BBC Director General Alasdair Milne, Milne attended Winchester College and read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford and Economics at Birkbeck College, London University. His sister, Kirsty, was a visiting scholar at Harvard University and as a journalist has worked on The Scotsman, the New Statesman, New Society and the BBC.

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