Fred Harrison

Fred Harrison is a graduate of the Universities of Oxford and London. He was chief reporter for the Sunday People when he secured the jail cell confession of Ian Brady. During the 1990s, he worked in Russia as a consultant on how to transform the wrecked command economy. Harrison was the only economist to give a ten-year warning to the Blair government in Britain that house prices would peak in 2007, to be followed by depression. He is currently director of the Land Research Trust, London. He...See more

Fred Harrison is a graduate of the Universities of Oxford and London. He was chief reporter for the Sunday People when he secured the jail cell confession of Ian Brady. During the 1990s, he worked in Russia as a consultant on how to transform the wrecked command economy. Harrison was the only economist to give a ten-year warning to the Blair government in Britain that house prices would peak in 2007, to be followed by depression. He is currently director of the Land Research Trust, London. He is the author of Brady and Hindley: Genesis of the Moors Murders and As Evil Does. See less