Career
He made headlines when as a student journalist he accused Leeds University lecturer Frank Ellis of racism and was interviewed by the Today programme on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4. He has interviewed Clare Short, Richard Dawkins, Noam Chomsky, Tony Benn, Norman Finkelstein and Damon Albarn as well as many other artists, scientists, journalists, and politicians. Kennard also broke the story in the Daily Bruin of the Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz’s attempts to suppress the publication of Beyond Chutzpah (Norman Finkelstein) by the University of California Press.
Dershowitz accused him of being a "liar" in print.
This story was subsequently picked up in national newspapers in Britain and America. He is the author of Irregular Army: How the United States Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror published by Verso Books and The Racket: A Rogue Reporter versus the Masters of the Universe published by Zed Books.
He is a fellow at the Centre for Investigative Journalism. His father is artist Peter Kennard.
He describes the free market economic system as one that "creates obscene inequalities and mass starvation.".
