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A	Marisa Acocella Marchetto	is a writer and illustrator. She has worked as a cartoonist for the New Yorker, New York Times and Glamour magazine amongst others. She is the author of graphic novel Just Who the Hell is She, Anyway? and Cancer Vixen, a graphic memoir published by Harper Collins. view articles
	John Adamson	is a Fellow in History at Cambridge University. His study of the beginnings of the English Civil War, The Noble Revolt: the Overthrow of Charles I, is published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. view articles
	Simon Akam	is a British journalist and photographer based in New York City. After graduating from Oxford he studied Arabic and freelanced in the Middle East, before winning a Fulbright scholarship to go to the States. His website is www.simonakam.com view articles
	Tariq Ali	is an historian, polemicist and the longstanding editor of the New Left Review. His latest book is Pirates of the Carribean: Axis of Hope (Verso). Other books and essays can be found on tariqali.org He lives in London. view articles
	Roger Alton	is the editor of the Independent. He also edited the Observer for 10 years. view articles
	Chris Ames	is a freelance investigative journalist. He has written extensively for the New Statesman and the Guardian about the events leading up to the Iraq war and is is the creator of the Iraq dossier website. view articles
	Ian Anderson	is technical director of The First Post. He previously ran an independent web agency for eight years, whose clients included Cahoot and Baxters. He has written for digital media magazines Create Online, Computer Arts and Digit.
	Andrew Anthony	is a feature writer for the Observer. Last year he published a controversial polemical memoir The Fallout: How a Guilty Liberal Lost his Innocence. He lives in London. view articles
	Marc Appleman	has written on sport for the Los Angeles Times and Sports Illustrated for Kids. He has worked for Nobok Sports, ESPN.com, AOL and Fox Sports.com. His book Dad, Are You Pumped? A Father-Son Baseball Odyssey is published by iUniverse. view articles
	Josie Appleton	is a London-based writer who has contributed to the Spectator and the Times Literary Supplement. She is the convenor of the Manifesto Club, a civil liberties campaign group, and author of the report, Against the Booze Bans and the Hyper-Regulation of Public Space, published on August 25, 2008. view articles
	Henrietta Ashby	graduated from Liverpool University in 2004 with a degree in English Literature and History of Art. In 2005 she spent two months working on reconstruction in Sri Lanka. view articles
	Iason Athanasiadis	is a writer, photographer and film-maker based in Istanbul. He has spent ten years covering world affairs, in particular the Middle East, for publications including Newsweek, the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian. He is fluent in Arabic and Farsi. www.iason.ws view articles
	Diana Athill	lives in London and Norfolk. After reading English at Oxford she joined Andre Deutsch's publishing firm, where she continued for the next 50 years as editorial director. Her own books are Instead of a Letter, Don't Look At Me Like That, After a Funeral, and Make Believe, and Stet (about being an editor), Yesterday Morning (about her childhood) and Somewhere Towards the End (about being old). view articles
	Scott Atran	a specialist in Islamist groups, teaches at the University of Michigan. A full version of his interview with Abu Bakar Bashir appears on the website of the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation. view articles
	Don Atyeo	has edited Time Out, Crossroads Monthly and Oz magazine. He has written several books, run a television station and now tends his aubergines in France, Majorca and the West Indies. view articles
	Tim Auld	is a writer and editor on The Sunday Telegraph. He has reviewed books and drama for The Times Literary Supplement, and has a DPhil in modern British theatre. view articles
B	Robert Baer	was a CIA case officer in the Directorate of Operations from 1976 to 1997, where he served in Middle Eastern countries, including Iraq and Lebanon. He is the author of See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism (Crown Publishers, 2002). Baer's life story was depicted by George Clooney in the 2005 film Syriana. view articles
	Rob Bagchi	is a freelance sportswriter who works on the sports desk of The Guardian. He is the author of two football books, The Unforgiven and True Grit. His third book will be published next year. view articles
	Anila Baig	is a features writer and columnist for The Sun. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Press Gazette Columnist of 2004. Last year she was nominated for a Great Britons Award and presented a documentary for Channel 4. view articles
	Ray Baker	who collaborates on the Downings cartoon, is a scriptwriter and former political journalist.
	Annalisa Barbieri	has written for the Evening Standard, The Independent on Sunday, the New Statesman and The Guardian. She has been a fishing correspondent, a fashion journalist and seamstress to the Queen Mother. Dear Annie, A No-Nonsense Guide to Getting Dressed was published by Faber in 1998. She is co-founder of the progressive parenting website www.iwantmymum.com. view articles
	James Bartholomew	is a freelance journalist and author of the controversial book The Welfare State We're In www.thewelfarestatewerein.com. He trained as a banker first before moving into journalism. His previous books were The Richest Man in the World – the Sultan of Brunei and Yew and Non-Yew. view articles
	Laura Barton	is a feature writer for The Guardian. She lives in London. view articles
	Sandra Barwick	has worked in Fleet Street for 30 years on a number of papers and magazines including the Daily Mail, The Independent and The Spectator.
	Richard Bath	is senior features writer at Scotland on Sunday. He is a former Scottish Sports Journalist of the Year who has written six books, all about sport. view articles
	Stephen Bayley	is a leading writer and commentator on design. He oversaw the creation of London’s Design Museum and was briefly creative director of the Millennium Dome. His books include Taste and Sex, Drink and Fast Cars. His next book is about how to design yourself. view articles
	Emily Bearn	is a journalist and lives in London. For the last seven years she has been a feature writer on the The Sunday Telegraph. Before that, she worked as a reporter on The Times diary and as a feature writer on Harpers & Queen magazine.
	Rachel Bell	is a freelance journalist and editor, writing for the The Guardian, Fawcett Society magazine and The Big Issue. She has written a careers book for teenage girls. view articles
	Susan Bell	is a freelance journalist based in Paris. A former correspondent for The Times, she now writes regularly for The Scotsman and has also written for The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, Wallpaper and Marie Claire*. view articles
	Ronan Bennett	is the author of five novels. His screenplays include Public Enemies, written for director Michael Mann, now filming in Chicago with Johnny Depp and Marion Cotillard; and 10 Days to War, a series of short films to mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, which was broadcast on BBC2. view articles
	Owen Bennett-Jones	presents Newshour and The Interview on the BBC World Service and is the author of Pakistan: Eye of the Storm. He is currently working on a series of documentaries for BBC radio on al-Qaeda. In 2008 he won the Sony Gold Award for journalist of the year. view articles
	Jessica Berens	is the author of two novels Queen of the Witches and The Highwayman and has edited a book of feminist essays entitled Inappropriate Behaviour. Based in London as a writer, she also organises campaigns for RAPt (the Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust) which takes the 12 step drug treatment programme into UK prisons. view articles
	Lucy Beresford	is a writer, broadcaster and psychotherapist. She has written about mental health issues for The Times, The Spectator and Psychologies magazine. Her first novel, Something I'm Not, will be published by Duckworth.
	Richard Berkowitz	is a journalist who lives in New York. His book, Stayin' Alive: The Invention of Safe Sex recounts his experiences as a safe sex campaigner at the start of the Aids epidemic. He is the subject of Sex Positive, a 2008 film. view articles
	Claire Berlinski	is an Istanbul-based American journalist, most recently the author of There is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters. She has lived and worked in Britain, Thailand, Laos and France and has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times amongst others. She has written two spy novels: Loose Lips and its sequel, Lion Eyes. view articles
	Don Berry	worked in Fleet Street for 35 years during which time he was news managing editor at The Sunday Times, news deputy editor at The Daily Telegraph and associate editor at the Evening Standard. view articles
	Isabel Berwick	is a personal finance writer at the Financial Times and a frequent broadcaster on money matters. view articles
	Judi Bevan	is a financial journalist, writer and broadcaster. Her work appears in the Spectator and the Independent on Sunday. She is the author of two books, The Rise and Fall of Marks & Spencer and How it Rose Again and Trolley Wars, a history of British supermarkets since 1950. view articles
	Gautaman Bhaskaran	is a film critic and writer. He worked has for India's two best regarded English-language dailies, The Statesman in Calcutta and The Hindu in Madras. His biography of India's auteur-director, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, is to be published by Penguin. view articles
	Christopher Bigsby	is Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, England. He is also Director of the Arthur Miller Centre for American Studies. He has published nearly 40 books, including four novels, and has written plays for radio and television, working with Malcolm Bradbury. view articles
	Anne Billson	is a film critic, photographer and writer. Her books include two horror novels, Suckers and Stiff Lips and a BFI Modern Classics monograph on John Carpenter's film The Thing. Her new book Buffy the Vampire Slayer is published by BFI Publishing. She lives in Paris. view articles
	John Bird	is a satirist, actor and script writer. He has appeared in numerous television productions including That Was The Week That Was, Jabberwocky, Yes, Prime Minister and Absolute Power. He is best known for his work on Bremner, Bird and Fortune. view articles
	Patrick Bishop	was a foreign correspondent for 25 years. He is the author of the best-selling Fighter Boys, Bomber Boys and 3 Para. His novel A Good War is published this May by Hodder & Stoughton. view articles
	Crispin Black	is a former Welsh Guards lieutenant colonel and intelligence analyst for the British government's Joint Intelligence Committee. His book, 7-7: What Went Wrong, was one of the first to be published after the London bombings in July 2005.
	Mark Blacklock	is a self-employed writer who has worked for C4, The Telegraph, The Guardian, Bizarre and Fortean Times.
	Antonia Bland	is an actress and writer who lives in New York City and London. Flying in the Hours of Darkness is her first novel. view articles
	Phillip Blond	is an academic, writer and journalist. He is a senior lecturer in theology and philosophy at the University of Cumbria. He writes for the International Herald Tribune and is frequently on the radio. view articles
	Chris Boffey	is a former assistant editor of The Sunday Telegraph and has been news editor of both the Daily and Sunday Mirror. He was special adviser to Estelle Morris when she was Education Secretary. view articles
	Christina Borg	joined the Sunday Times literary department as assistant in 2001. She has worked as a location PA in corporate film/TV advertising. view articles
	Mihir Bose	is sports editor at BBC News, appearing regularly on BBC News at Ten. He has been a business journalist for The Sunday Times and, since 1995, sports columnist for The Daily Telegraph. He is the author of Bollywood: A History, published by Tempus Books. view articles
	Colin Bostock-Smith	worked at the Evening Standard and edited rock magazine Rave before devoting himself to television comedy. He wrote gags and scripts for almost every major comedian of the past 30 years, including the Two Ronnies, Rowan Atkinson, the Not the Nine O'Clock News team and Clive James. He then spent three years in Zambia, making local television comedies and writing about Zambian politics for The Spectator. view articles
	Chris Bowlby	is a regular presenter on BBC radio specialising in history, science and European affairs. He was the BBC correspondent in Prague during the division of Czechoslovakia, and has also worked on the research staff of the House of Commons. view articles
	Alex Bowler	works as assistant editor at Jonathan Cape. He lives in London. view articles
	Rosie Boycott	is the co-founder of Spare Rib, the feminist magazine, and a former editor of the Independent on Sunday, the Independent, the Daily Express and Esquire. A Trustee of the Hay Literary Festival and the current chair of the Samuel Johnson prize, she also writes and broadcasts frequently. Her latest book - Our Farm: A Year in the Life of a Small Farm - reflects another of her passions, farming. She lives in London and Somerset. view articles
	Rowen Bradley	web developer, is a D&AD award winning graphic designer who has produced work for high profile clients such as Honda F1, Rolls Royce, Porsche, British Airways, Betfair and many more.
	Andy Brassell	has written for Champions, When Saturday Comes and portugoal.net, and is European football expert on BBC Five Live's Up All Night football phone-in. His book All Or Nothing; a season in the life of the Champions League was published in 2006. www.allornothingbook.com
	Christopher Bray	is a film critic for The First Post. He also writes on books, music and movies for The Sunday Times, New Statesman, New York Observer and Word. His critical biography of Michael Caine has been published by Faber. view articles
	Jack Bremer	is a London-based reporter, attached to The First Post. He has also reported regularly from America and France. view articles
	Peter Briffa	is a playwright and screenwriter who lives in East London. He has written for The Times, and the liberal think-tank Civitas. He blogs at www.publicinterest.co.uk. view articles
	Nadia Brooks	was a showbusiness columnist for the People and Daily Star. She is now freelance and writes for a variety of newspapers, including The Daily Telegraph, Daily Express and The Sun. view articles
	Richard Brooks	writes for Private Eye magazine, mostly for the In the Back pages, on government and financial stories. In 2006 he co-authored Plundering the Public Sector, a book about how consultants rip-off the taxpayer. view articles
	Colin Brown	is a former deputy political editor of the Independent. He is the author of Fighting Talk: the Biography of John Prescott and of Whitehall: the Street that Shaped a Nation, published in 2009 by Simon & Schuster. view articles
	Andrew Brown	is a writer and broadcaster with a special interest in science, religion, fishing and computers. His books include Fishing in Utopia, The Darwin Wars and In the Beginning Was the Worm. view articles
	Ismene Brown	was a musician and political journalist before becoming The Daily Telegraph's dance critic in 1994. She is a frequent contributor to the BBC. view articles
	Neal Brown	has written about art for most UK and many international art magazines, including frieze and Parkett. He is the author of numerous catalogue essays and his book Tracey Emin was published by Tate Publishing in 2006. view articles
	Mark Brutton	is a design writer and copywriter who moved from London to the south of France with his wife and two children in 2003. view articles
	Ivan Bulloch	is The First Post's design director. He has worked in New York for Conde Nast and Rolling Stone magazine. In London he has been an art director on The Sunday Times and worked for Redwood Publishing, The Daily Telegraph, Express Newspapers and IPC.
	Peter Burden	is the author of Rags, a novel based on his experiences in the fashion industry, and News of the world? Fake Sheikhs and Royal Trappings, an account of how the paper finds its stories. He blogs at www.peterburden.net view articles
	Jason Burke	is a foreign correspondent at The Observer. In 15 years of journalism, he has covered scores of conflicts. He is the author of a best-selling book on al-Qaeda and most recently On the Road to Kandahar, published by Penguin. view articles
	Richard Burletson	is a London-based businessman with interests in property and security.
	Josh Burrows	is a freelance journalist who lives and works in London view articles
	Thabo Buthelezi	is the pseudonym of a journalist working in Zimbabwe. view articles
	Eamonn Butler	is Director of the Adam Smith Institute and the author of The Rotten State of Britain, published by Gibson Square. view articles
	Sholto Byrnes	is a contributing editor of the New Statesman and jazz critic of The Independent. Formerly diary editor, interviewer and senior feature writer on both Independent titles, he has also worked at the Evening Standard and The Sunday Telegraph. He is a judge for this year’s Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Composers. view articles
	Howard Byrom	has written for the The Times, The Independent, Evening Standard and the Idler and provides content for Discovery Channel, BBC and Channel 4 websites. He lives in Morecambe. view articles
C	Richard Cabut	has written on popular culture for the BBC, The Telegraph, The Guardian and NME, under the pen name Richard North. His fiction includes The Edgier Waters compilation, published by Snowbooks. He played in the punk rock band Brigandage. view articles
	Frances Cairncross	is Rector of Exeter College, Oxford University. She was on the staff of the The Economist for 20 years. She is the author of Costing the Earth: The Challenge for Governments, the Opportunities for Business and of Green, Inc: a Guide to Business and the Environment. She chairs the Economic and Social Research Council. view articles
	David Cairns	is a freelance journalist and filmmaker from Edinburgh who taught journalism in Somalia and Kenya. view articles
	Georgia Cameron-Clarke	has worked at The Sunday Telegraph and The Daily Telegraph, writing about technology during the days of the dotcom boom. She then joined the Industry Standard. She is now a freelance writer. view articles
	Duncan Campbell	is a senior correspondent at The Guardian, where he has also been crime correspondent and Los Angeles correspondent. He is the author of That Was Business, This Is Personal, The Underworld and The Paradise Trail. view articles
	Louise Campbell	is a graphic designer for The First Post. She previously worked at Liberty of London and the Body Shop. She is also founder and manager of cult designer jewellery store www.loulasboutique.com.
	Matthew Carr	is a writer and broadcaster based in Derbyshire. He has reported on the Mafia wars in Sicily, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and human rights abuses in Central America. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir My Father's House (Penguin), about his childhood in the Caribbean, and Unknown Soldiers: How Terrorism Transformed the Modern World (Profile Books). is a writer and broadcaster based in Derbyshire. He has reported on the Mafia wars in Sicily, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and human rights abuses in Central America. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir My Father's House (Penguin), about his childhood in the Caribbean, Unknown Soldiers: How Terrorism Transformed the Modern World (Profile Books) and The Infernal Machine (New Press), which takes an in-depth look at the way in which terrorism has evolved. view articles
	Tim Carroll	is a contributor to the Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times, and the author of two books In Hitler's Bunker and The Great Escapers. He is currently working on a book about Germans who fought for Britain in the war.
	Caroline Carter	is a pseudonym for a north London charity worker. view articles
	Henry Castiglione	is a London-based publisher and freelance journalist. He contributes to The Daily Telegraph and numerous websites. view articles
	Julius Cavendish	is a freelance journalist based in Kabul. He has reported for the Mail on Sunday, the Daily Mail and The Times and is producing a documentary about aid workers in Palestine. view articles
	Aditya Chakrabortty	is a producer on the BBC's Newsnight programme. He also writes for the Financial Times, New Statesman and FT Magazine. view articles
	Casey Chance	is a London-based freelance journalist and broadcaster. She writes about popular culture, travel, motoring and sport. view articles
	Alexander Chancellor	is a former editor of the Spectator and now a columnist for The Guardian. He has been Reuters bureau chief in Italy, Washington correspondent of The Independent, deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph and editor of the Talk of the Town section of the New Yorker magazine. view articles
	Clancy Chassay	works for the Guardian. Formerly a freelance journalist based in Beirut, he has contributed to The Economist, The Independent and The Sunday Telegraph. view articles
	David Cheal	is a sub-editor and pop critic at the Daily Telegraph. He lives in London with his wife, a primary school teacher, and their three children view articles
	Robert Chesshyre	is a journalist and author. Former US correspondent of The Observer and author of The Return of a Native Reporter and The Force: Inside the Police, he writes for The Daily Telegraph Magazine and New Statesman. view articles
	Linton Chiswick	combines feature writing for the Times and Financial Times with screenwriting for the big screen and broadcasting on BBC Radio 3. www.lintonchiswick.org view articles
	Neil Clark	is a writer, journalist and broadcaster and a regular contributor to newspapers and journals at home and abroad, including The Guardian, New Statesman and The Observer. His work has appeared in publications as diverse as The American Conservative and Pravda. He also tutors students in International Relations, International Business Management, Politics and History at Oxford Tutorial College and for CAPA (Center for Academic Programs Abroad). This is his blog. view articles
	Pete Clark	is a senior feature writer for the Evening Standard and has written extensively on television, sports, music and culture. He was the pop correspondent for the Mail On Sunday between 1994 and 1996. view articles
	Ross Clark	is a freelance journalist and columnist on The Spectator, The Times and The Sunday Telegraph. He is the author of The Great Before, a satire on the anti-globalisation movement, and How to Label a Goat: The Silly Rules and Regulations that are Strangling Britain, published by Harriman House, about the lunacy of red tape. view articles
	Zsuzsanna Clark	was born and brought up in Hungary and came to Britain in 1999. She has written for The Guardian and New Statesman. view articles
	James Clasper	is a freelance writer and editor based in London. A former lawyer in New York City, he has written about film, politics and law for The Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Little White Lies, Filmmaker Magazine and the Liberal. view articles
	Nicholas Clee	is a journalist specialising in the book industry and a reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian and New Statesman. He is a former editor of the Bookseller. His cookbook, Don't Sweat the Aubergine, is published by Short Books. view articles
	Tom Cock	is an undergraduate at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in the engineering department. view articles
	Alexander Cockburn	coedits the political newsletter and website www.counterpunch.org and is a regular columnist for the Nation, also for many newspapers and magazines. Among his books he has coauthored (with Jeffrey St Clair) Whiteout, the CIA, Drugs and the Press, also Corruptions of Empire and The Golden Age is In Us (about the Reagan, Bush and Clinton years). End Times - the Decline and Fall of the Fourth Estate is published by CounterPunch. He lives in northern California. view articles
	Andrew Cockburn	writes from Washington DC on defence and foreign affairs. His latest book is Rumsfeld: An American Disaster (Verso, 2007). view articles
	Patrick Cockburn	has covered the Middle East since 1975. Frequently in Baghdad, he is Iraq correspondent for The Independent. He previously worked for the Financial Times for twelve years mostly in the Middle East. He wrote extensively about Iran at the time of the fall of the Shah. He is the author of several books including Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession and Broken Boy, a memoir of his childhood. view articles
	Nicholas Coleridge	is the Managing Director of the Conde Nast magazines. A former newspaper columnist and magazine editor, he joined Conde Nast as Editorial Director in 1989. He is the author of fourteen books. His novel Deadly Sins is published in May 2009. view articles
	Matthew Collin	is the BBC Caucasus correspondent, based in Tbilisi, Georgia. He has also been the editor of The Big Issue, the Time Out website and i-D magazine. He is the author of two books, This is Serbia Calling, about resistance to the government of Slobodan Milosevic, and Altered State, about drugs and dance culture in Britain. view articles
	Tim Collins	soldier, author, columnist, broadcaster and commentator, he served with the British Army, including eight years as an officer in the elite Special Air Service. Since leaving the Army his memoirs, Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict, have been published by Headline. view articles
	Patrick Collister	has worked in advertising for 25 years. He was the executive creative director and vice chairman of Ogilvy & Mather for seven years and the executive creative director of the EHS Brann group. As a copywriter, among other awards, he has a Gold from Cannes. view articles
	Marie Colvin	is an award-winning foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times. As well as covering the Middle East for more than 20 years, she has reported from East Timor, Chechnya, Kosovo and Sri Lanka where she was wounded in an ambush. She lives in London view articles
	Alan Connock	is a technology expert who broadcasts and writes regularly across all sections of the British media. view articles
	Stephanie Coontz	is a Professor of History and Family Studies at the Evergreen State college, in Olympia, Washington. She is the author of Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage, published by Viking Press.
	David Copperfield	is a policeman serving in an inner city police force. The fee for this column is paid to UKCops www.ukcops.org, a charity that looks after surviors of police tragedies. view articles
	Richard Cork	is art critic of the New Statesman, a well-known broadcaster and prize-winning author. He is the author of four books on modern art, including Art Beyond the Gallery in Early Twentieth-Century England and David Bomberg, published by Yale. view articles
	Michael Coveney	is a theatre critic whose career includes long stints on the Financial Times, The Observer and Daily Mail, and the editorship of Plays and Players. He has written books about Maggie Smith, Mike Leigh and Andrew Lloyd Webber. view articles
	Coline Covington	is a Jungian analyst in private practice in London. She is former Chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council and a Training Analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology, of the British Association of Psychotherapists, and of the London Centre for Psychotherapy. She is co-editor with Barbara Wharton of Sabina Spielrein: Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis, published by Routledge in 2003 and co-editor with Paul Williams, Jean Arundale and Jean Knox of Terrorism and War: Unconscious Dynamics of Political Violence, published by Karnac in 2002. view articles
	David Cox	is a writer and TV producer. He has contributed to the Guardian, Times, Independent, Daily Telegraph, Observer, Sunday Times, New Statesman and Prospect. Programmes he has produced include Nation, War in the Gulf, Walden on Heroes and Weekend World. view articles
	Simon Cox	presents his own current affairs series The Investigation on BBC Radio 4. He is also a reporter for BBC Radio Current Affairs and works as a troubleshooter and journalist trainer around the world. He has also been a reporter for BBC radio and TV news. view articles
	Dan Coxon	is a freelance journalist and writer based in Edinburgh. He contributes regularly to Is This Music? and Disorder Magazine, although his work has appeared in a variety of publications, from Endeavour to the Scottish Cricketer. He is also the author of the Wee Book Of Scotland. view articles
	David Craig	has spent about 20 years working as a consultant in business and public services. He is the author of Squandered: How Gordon Brown is wasting over one trillion pounds of our money (Constable 2008). In June 2008 he announced his candidacy in the Haltemprice and Howden by-election. view articles
	Peter Craven	is a journalist based in Melbourne. He was the founding editor of Quarterly Essay and the Australian Best of annuals (Best Australian Essays, Best Australian Stories, Best Australian Poems). His work appears regularly in The Melbourne Age, The Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald. He was an editor at Scripsi, the respected Melbourne literary journal, which flourished between 1981 and 1994.
	David Cromwell	is Media Lens co-editor and co-author with David Edwards of Guardians of Power - The Myth Of The Liberal Media. His book Private Planet is published by Jon Carpenter. He is a researcher in ocean circulation at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.
D	Matthew D'Ancona	has been Editor of The Spectator since February 2006 and is political columnist for The Sunday Telegraph and GQ. He was named Political Journalist of the Year in 2006 by the Political Studies Association. He is the author of two books on early Christian theology and two novels.
	Theodore Dalrymple	worked as a consultant in the NHS and Prison Service, and wrote a column in The Spectator for 14 years. view articles
	Guy Dammann	is a research associate at the Institute of Musical Research. He lectures on classical music and philosophy, writing on these and other subjects for the Guardian, New Statesman and other publications. He is currently at work on a book about the meaning of beauty. view articles
	Anthony Daniels	is a doctor who has worked on four continents. His books include The Wilder Shores of Marx, Sweet Waist of America, Monrovia Mon Amour, Junk Medicine: Doctors, Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy and In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas view articles
	George Davies	is a freelance business journalist working in Central America. view articles
	Sally Davies	worked as a teacher in Sudan. She now lives in London. view articles
	Nick Davies	has been named Journalist of the Year and Reporter of the Year for his investigations into crime, drugs, poverty and other social issues. He writes regularly for the Guardian and also makes TV documentaries. His books include White Lies (about a racist miscarriage of justice in Texas), Dark Heart (about poverty in Britain) and Flat Earth News (an expose of 'falsehood, distortion and propaganda' in the global media) view articles
	Edward de Bono	is a psychologist and author, best known for introducing the term ‘lateral thinking’ to the English language. Corporations such as Coca-Cola have applied his ideas to business structuring. view articles
	Claire de Jong	is an artist who lives and works in the East End of London. Her most recent project involves painting on photographic material.
	Alex de Waal	was an advisor to the African Union team at the Darfur peace talks in Abuja in May 2005. He is a programme director at the Social Science Research Council, a director of Justice Africa and co-author with Julie Flint of Darfur: a short history of a long war (Zed 2005). view articles
	Johnny Dee	promoted gigs and edited his own fanzine in Brighton, before landing a job at pop bible Smash Hits in 1991. He went on to work for NME, Vox and The Times. Currently his writing can be found in Q, Guardian Guide and The Independent On Sunday review. view articles
	Sam Delaney	is an award winning journalist and broadcaster who writes for The Guardian and has written and presented documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5. His book Get Smashed: The Story Of The Men Who Made The Adverts is published by Sceptre. view articles
	James Delingpole	is the author of three novels about food, sex, drugs and sharks — Fish Show, Fin and Thinly Disguised Autobiography — and writes on TV, books, current affairs, music and life generally for publications including The Spectator, The Times and The Sunday Telegraph. view articles
	Philip Delves Broughton	is the author of What they teach you at Harvard Business School, which he wrote whilst completing his MBA. Previously, he served as the New York and Paris correspondent for The Daily Telegraph. He has also written for The Spectator, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Times. view articles
	Felix Dennis	is the proprietor of The First Post. He made his name in the notorious Oz trial of 1971, when he and the underground magazine's other co-editors were finally aquitted on appeal after the longest obscenity trial in British legal history. He went on to found his own magazine publishing company in 1973. Today, Dennis Publishing titles include Maxim, Auto Express, Stuff and The Week. In 2002, he produced his first collection of poetry, A Glass Half Full, published by Hutchinson. His latest book of poetry, Homeless in My Heart, is published by Ebury Press. view articles
	Shirley Dent	is communications director at the Institute of Ideas and directs the satellites programme for the Institute's Battle of Ideas festival. She blogs regularly for Guardian Unlimited and researched the reception history of William Blake’s works for her PhD, publishing several books and studies on the subject. view articles
	Stuart Derbyshire	is a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Birmingham. He is part of the management committee for the Birmingham University Imaging Centre and head of pain imaging. view articles
	Janine di Giovanni	is an Italian-American journalist based in Paris. She has been a foreign correspondent for 17 years, working mostly in areas of conflict and war. She is a writer for The Times and Vanity Fair and a contributor to the New York Times Magazine and National Geographic. She has won four major awards and written four books, including Madness Visible: A Memoir of War (Bloomsbury). view articles
	John Dodd	is now a freelance journalist after 20 years as a Fleet Street feature writer, foreign correspondent and columnist. view articles
	Christine Doyle	is a health journalist and writer. She started in Fleet Street as health correspondent of The Observer and joined The Daily Telegraph as health editor during the early days of the "health pages". She is a former chairman of the Medical Journalists’ Association.
	Danielle Dsane	is a features writer, originally from Guildford, who spent a decade working in the tobacco industry. view articles
	Ben du Preez	is a freelance features writer with a particular interest in the Middle East and hybrid animals. He has also written for the Observer and New Statesman. view articles
	Ruth Dudley Edwards	is an historian, journalist and satirical crime novelist. Her non-fiction books include biographies of Patrick Pearse and Victor Gollancz, a portrait of the Orange Order, a history of The Economist and Newspapermen: Cecil King, Hugh Cudlipp and the glory days of Fleet Street. www.ruthdudleyedwards.co.uk view articles
	Lydia Dunn	studied English literature at Reading University. She lives in Hampshire. view articles
E	Michael Economides	is Chairman of the Board of XGAS and Paleon Oil and Gas. He is also a Professor at the Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston. Previously he served as Chief Scientist of the Global Petroleum Research Institute (GPRI). He has written or co-written 14 professional textbooks and books, including The Color Of Oil and From Soviet to Putin and Back. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Energy Tribune. view articles
	David Edwards	is Media Lens co-editor and co-author with David Cromwell of Guardians of Power - The Myth Of The Liberal Media, Pluto Press. He is author of Free to be Human and The Compassionate Revolution, both published by Green Books. view articles
	Tim Edwards	is chief subeditor of The First Post. Previously he was editor for the relaunch of Yahoo! UK’s home page. He has edited and written for various consumer publications and won best B2B title at the APA awards with Vodafone's Business Sense magazine. view articles
	Sarah Edworthy	writes a weekly column for Telegraph Sport. She is also the author of El Macca: Four Years with Real Madrid with Steve McManaman and co-author of The Daily Telegraph Formula One Years. view articles
	Ben Ehrman	graduated from the School of Oriental and African Studies in 2004 with a degree in Middle Eastern history. He specialised in Iranian modern history. view articles
	Richard Ehrman	was a government special adviser in the Employment Department and the Northern Ireland Office during the 1980s. In the 1990s he was chief leader writer of The Daily Telegraph, and is now a consultant director of the think tank Politeia, and on the board of Policy Exchange. He also runs a commercial property company. view articles
	Tom Eilenberg	is a first-year student at the University of York, reading history and politics. view articles
	Jonn Elledge	is a journalist covering business and public policy. He read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and has contributed to the New Statesman, TCS Daily and Smoke: A London Peculiar. view articles
	Lara Ellington-Brown	is a journalist based in London who has written for the Financial Times and The First Post. view articles
	Will Ellsworth-Jones	is a London-based journalist. He has worked for the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph. His book, We Will Not Fight, The Untold Story of World War One’s Conscientious Objectors, is published by Aurum Press. view articles
	Lloyd Evans	is the theatre critic of the Spectator and playwright. He wrote Grand Slam which was presented at the Kings Head in Islington and co-wrote three plays, including A Right Royal Farce with the critic and novelist Toby Young. view articles
F	Quentin Falk	is editor of the BAFTA magazine, Academy. He is also the author of books on Graham Greene, Anthony Hopkins, The Rank Organisation, Albert Finney and, imminently, Alfred Hitchcock. view articles
	Duncan Fallowell	is a novelist and travel writer who has worked on many projects with the German group Can. His travel books are To Noto and One Hot Summer in St Petersburg and he has written a volume of short portraits Twentieth Century Characters. His most recent novel is A History of Facelifting. view articles
	Nigel Farndale	is a columnist and feature writer for The Sunday Telegraph. He has won a British Press Award for his interviews and is the author of four books. His biography Haw-Haw was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize.
	Nicholas Farrell	formerly of the London Sunday Telegraph, lives in the Romagna region of Italy from where he edits Le Ragioni dell’Occidente, a monthly current affairs magazine, and writes two weekly columns: Fumo di Londra for the Milan daily Libero; and Zuppa Inglese for La Voce di Romagna. He is the author of Mussolini - A New Life (Weidenfeld & Nicolson/ Orion). view articles
	Tom Fawthrop	is a journalist and filmmaker who has extensively covered the developing world. He has been based in south-east Asia for the past 25 years, and written for the Guardian and the Observer. view articles
	Stephen Fay	is a former business editor of The Sunday Times and, more recently, editor of Wisden Cricket Monthly. His book Tom Graveney at Lords was published in October 2005 by Methuen. view articles
	James Fenton	is a trustee of the National Gallery. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry. He has worked as a political journalist, drama critic, book reviewer, war correspondent, foreign correspondent and columnist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was Oxford Professor of Poetry for the period 1994-99. In 2007 he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. view articles
	Niall Ferguson	is Professor of Political and Financial History at Oxford University and Visiting Professor at the Stern School of Business, New York University. His latest book, War of the World, is published by Allen Lane. view articles
	Frank Field	was Minister for Welfare Reform between May 1997 and July 1998. He was elected to parliament in 1979 as Member for Birkenhead. Frank Field was previously director of the Child Poverty Action Group and of the Low Pay Unit. A former chairman of the Social Security Select Committee, he is the author of numerous works on welfare, low pay and social issues. view articles
	The Fleet Street Collective	is an informal group of newspaper journalists. view articles
	Giles Foden	is an author whose books include The Last King of Scotland, Zanzibar and Mimi and Toutou Go Forth. view articles
	Jonathan Ford	is commentary editor at Reuters view articles
	Matt Ford	is a freelance journalist. He was editor of The Big Issue for four years, and has written for The Independent, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and Time Out. view articles
	Alice Fordham	is a Beirut-based journalist, writing about current events and culture. She has been a leader writer for the Times, and contributed to the Financial Times, the Observer, and the Sunday Times. view articles
	Jonathan Foreman	a former corporate lawyer, is now a freelance journalist. Before becoming a feature writer at the Daily Mail, he worked for several years at the New York Post where he served as a film critic, leader writer, columnist and 'embedded' war correspondent. He has also been published in Vanity Fair and the New Yorker. view articles
	Robert Fox	is a writer on western defence issues and Italian current affairs. He has worked for the Corriera della Sera in Milan, covered the Falklands invasion for BBC Radio, and worked as defence correspondent for The Daily Telegraph. His books include The Inner Sea: the Mediterranean and its People, published by Alfred A. Knopf. view articles
	Mary Franklin	is the singer in Pale Young Gentlemen. She has also directed plays, including The Importance of Being Ernest, The Women and The Master and Margarita. view articles
	Lettice Franklin	lives in London. She plays the piano, clarinet and saxophone, and has designed and made skirts.
	Seth Freedman	served for 15 months in a combat unit of the Israeli Defence Force between 2004 and 2006, and has since worked as a writer based in Jerusalem. view articles
	Vicky Frost	is a writer and editor who lives in London. She regularly writes for national newspapers and magazines. view articles
	Frank Furedi	fled to the west with his family in 1956 after the defeat of the Hungarian revolution. A student radical in the Sixties, he was active in the Trotskyist movement in the 70s. A sociologist and author commentating on culture and society, he is now based at the University of Kent in Canterbury. His latest book is Politics of Fear; Beyond Left and Right (Continuum Press). www.frankfuredi.com view articles
G	Jason Gagliardi	is a Bangkok-based advertising executive and journalist who has written for Time, Harper's Bazaar and Colors. He is also a columnist for the South China Morning Post. view articles
	David Gale	is a playwright and theatre director. His new play Vanity Play will open in London in Spring 2009. He has written on arts, technoculture and hysterical behaviour for The Observer, The Guardian, The Independent and GQ amongst others. He lives in London. view articles
	Tom Gallagher	teaches at the Department of Peace Studies, Bradford University. Many of his books examine religious and nationalist violence in Europe and efforts to overcome it. His latest is Theft of a Nation: Romania since Communism (Hurst & Co, London 2005). view articles
	Claude Garamond	designed the typeface for The First Post's masthead. A typographer and publisher, based in Paris, his work has been described as "among the most finished specimens of typography that exist". He died in 1561.
	Anthony Gardner	is editor of the Royal Society of Literature’s magazine RSL. He also writes features for The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times Magazine, travel articles for The Sunday Telegraph and book reviews for the Mail on Sunday. He was formerly deputy editor of Harpers & Queen.
	Daisy Garnett	is a freelance writer living in London. Her work has appeared in Vogue, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, New York Times Magazine, The Observer, Harpers Bazaar and New York Magazine.
	Anne Garvey	has written for The Times, The Independent and YOU magazine. She lives in Cambridge, where she is working on her first novel. view articles
	Bhaskar Gautam	writes from India on the arts, sociology and current affairs for publications in Japan, South Korea and the US. He teaches visual arts and communication skills to post-graduate students. view articles
	George	who draws Downings, has been an illustrator for TV Times since 1999 and has also worked for The Economist, Rory Bremner, and Delia Smith. His gallery is at www.caricatures-uk.com. view articles
	Getty Images	is a picture library that provides photographs to The First Post. It has offices worldwide, in North America, Europe and Asia. view articles
	John Gibb	writes about golf for the Financial Times. In his time he has played with Sam Snead, Peter Thompson and Lord Lucan. He was a crime writer on the Evening Standard for many years and contributed to the Erotic Review. view articles
	Andrew Gilligan	is defence and diplomatic editor of The Spectator and writes for the Evening Standard. He was the defence correspondent on The Sunday Telegraph from 1994 - 1999, and for the BBC’ s Today programme from 1999 - 2004. He is a regular contributor to Channel 4’ s Dispatches. view articles
	Charles Glass	has been covering the Middle East since 1973. His two most recent books on the area are The Tribes Triumphant (Harper Collins) and The Northern Front: An Iraq War Diary (Saqi Books). view articles
	Misha Glenny	is an award winning author and journalist. He has written for all major British, European and American newspapers. Misha is also the author of four best-selling books, The Rebirth of History: Eastern Europe in the Age of Democracy, The Fall of Yugoslavia, The Balkans: 1804-1999 and McMafia: Crime without Frontiers view articles
	Peter Glover	is a British political and energy journalist. He is a contributing editor at Energy Tribune magazine. view articles
	Henning Gloystein	is a British/German freelance journalist based in London. His articles have been published in Britain, Colombia and Germany. He has written two books about Colombia, Globalista and Three Borders. view articles
	Rowena Goldman	is a television executive and writer. She currently works for the BBC developing and producing interactive projects, including The Dark House, a drama for BBC 4. She has contributed to Time Out, The Scotsman and Evening Standard and is the author of The Mediterranean Health Diet.
	Lauren Goldstein Crowe	has written for numerous magazines, including Time, Fortune and French Vogue. She created the I Date Models for Money column on the now defunct Style Channel website. She is writing a book about the luxury shoe business for Bloomsbury publishers. view articles
	John Goodbody	was Sports News Correspondent of The Times 1986-2007 and has covered the last 10 Summer Olympic Games. He was voted Sports Reporter of the Year in 2001 and won the Sports Story of the Year in 2002.
	Barry Goodman	has been a marketing, retail, design and general business consultant in the UK and Australia. He also writes comedy scripts.
	Christopher Goodwin	is based in Los Angeles and travels widely through Mexico and Latin America. He writes for the Sunday Times, the Observer, Esquire and other publications on Hollywood, crime and assorted Americana. view articles
	Bryony Gordon	is a feature writer on the The Daily Telegraph.
	Robert Gore-Langton	is a former theatre critic for The Daily Telegraph and Daily Express. He is now a freelance writer on the arts for The Times and The Sunday Telegraph and on rural life for the Field. view articles
	Joy Gosney	is a freelance illustrator who lives and works in Brighton. She illustrates pieces on travel, current affairs, health and beauty, fashion and food as well as children’s books. Visit www.joygosney.co.uk.
	Alastair Graham	is an illustrator who created the characters for Sturm and Drang. His books include Full Moon Soup and Impressions, a folio of jazz drawings (www.jazzfolio.com). He has also worked in animated film on Katya and the Nutcracker, and more recently, the music video Suba.
	Marisol Grandon	has written arts and travel pieces for icon, Time Out, RES and Dazed and Confused. She is half-Chilean, half-British. view articles
	Kristian Gravenor	is a Montreal-based journalist who visited Azerbaijan last year. view articles
	Adam Gray	is a freelance political consultant specialising in political campaigning, grassroots organisation and communications. He is a contributor to The Almanac of British Politics. view articles
	Freddy Gray	is a British journalist based in Washington DC. He is literary editor of The American Conservative and a former deputy editor of The Catholic Herald in London. view articles
	Danny Graydon	is a freelance journalist, specialising in film and graphic novels. He currently contributes to Empire, Variety Weekly, SFX and Sci-Fi Now and is the co-author of The Rough Guide to Film Noir. view articles
	Jonathon Green	is Britain's leading lexicographer of slang and broadcasts on the subject regularly. He has also compiled dictionaries of quotations and edited three oral histories, the best-known being Days In The Life, on London's hippie sixties. His Chambers Dictionary of Slang will be published in October. view articles
	Jonathan Gregson	is editor of FIRST Magazine and writes on finance for The Wall Street Journal, Global Finance and Fortune Magazine. He is the author of several books on South Asia including Kingdoms Beyond the Clouds and Blood Against the Snows: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty.
	Geordie Greig	was made editor of the London Evening Standard February 2009 after almost 10 years as editor of Tatler. Previously, he was the New York Correspondent of the Sunday Times for five years and then the paper’s literary editor for five years. He is the author of Louis and the Prince, a critically acclaimed history of the story of friendship between George VI and his grandfather. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is married to a Texan and lives in London with their three children, twin daughters and a son. view articles
	Oscar Grillo	is an illustrator. Born in Buenos Aires in 1943, he moved to England in 1971 and has worked as an animator, books illustrator, designer and also had several exhibitions as a painter. Since 2002 he has been sending a daily drawn email to an audience of six hundred friends. His illustrations can be seen in Sin City, the tales of an inner-city copper.
	Viv Groskop	is a London-based freelance writer whose work appears in The Observer, Guardian and Russian Vogue. view articles
	John Gross	has written books including Shylock: a Legend and its Legacy and an anthology, After Shakespeare. He was editor of the The Times Literary Supplement from 1973 to 1981, and theatre critic of The Sunday Telegraph from 1989 to 2005. view articles
	Sheila Gunn	was press spokesman for John Major and a political correspondent of the Times. She is a visiting lecturer at City University's Department of Journalism. view articles
	Rahila Gupta	is a campaigner and writer whose new book Enslaved: The New British Slavery will be published in September 2007. She co-scripted the feature film Provoked, she has written radio drama and is currently an RLF (Royal Literary Fund) writing fellow, based at Queen Mary College, University of London. view articles
	Dan Guthrie	was a columnist and copy editor for the Grants Pass Daily Courier until September 2001. He lives in Oregon and has taught biology, writing and journalism courses at various US universities. view articles
H	Anthony Haden-Guest	writes extensively about the art world. Born in Paris, he grew up in London and lives there and in New York. He won a New York Emmy for writing and narrating a program about the coming of Eurotrash. His most recent books were True Colours: The Real Life of the Art World (Grove Atlantic); The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco and the Culture of the Night (Morrow) and The Chronicles of Now, a book of cartoons (Allworth). view articles
	Elaine Hake	is a former assistant editor of The First Post. She previously worked as an English teacher in Fukuoka, Japan and wrote for The Telegraph. She is now a fundraiser for Refuge, a domestic violence charity. view articles
	William Hall	is a freelance business journalist based in Manchester. He spent more than 30 years with the Financial Times in various roles, including editing the Lex column. He also writes for Financial World and the Banker. view articles
	Donald Hamer	is a freelance writer who has lived and work in Spain, Italy and South Africa. He now resides in Wiltshire. view articles
	Deborah Hands	lives in Norfolk. Formerly a military fitness instructor, she now writes about health, mainly for the Canadian market. Her first book will be published shortly. view articles
	Alex Hannaford	based in London, has written for the Evening Standard, The Guardian, South China Morning Post and the Austin American Statesman, among others. view articles
	Daniel Hannan MEP	was elected a Conservative MEP for South East England in 1999. As well as being a leader-writer on The Daily Telegraph he writes columns for The Sunday Telegraph and the German daily, Die Welt. He speaks French and Spanish. view articles
	Whitney Haring-Smith	is a 2007 Rhodes Scholar from Pennsylvania. He works as a political risk analyst for Eurasia Group in London and has experience in Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
	Olivia Harris	former assistant editor of The First Post. Previously she was a production assistant for BBC Science and spent 2004 - 2005 working and travelling in Africa. view articles
	Andrew Harrison	is an NHS Accident and Emergency doctor, who has also worked in intensive care and cardiology. Before studying medicine he worked as a computer analyst in a merchant bank. view articles
	Aidan Hartley	was born in Nairobi, and was Reuters’ Africa correspondent throughout the 1990s, covering the Rwandan genocide, Ethiopian famine and Somalian civil war. He is the author of The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands, which was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize. view articles
	Jonathan Harwood	is a subeditor at The First Post. He has edited and written for national and local newspapers and consumer publications in the UK. He also spent several years working as a journalist and occasional fisherman in the South Pacific. view articles
	Ronald Harwood	is a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. His films include One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The Dresser, The Pianist, for which he won an Oscar, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. He was awarded a CBE in 1999. Collaboration and Taking Sides, two of Harwood’s plays about musicians and Nazi Germany, are at Chichester Festival Theatre until August 30, 2008. view articles
	Nicholas Haslam	is a celebrated interior decorator whose clients have included Rupert Everett, Bryan Ferry, Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach. He has also designed parties for the Prince of Wales, Lord Rothschild, and Natalie Wood. A book of his work entitled Sheer Opulence is soon to be followed by his autobiography. He has often written for Vogue, the Evening Standard, the Sunday Telegraph, World of Interiors and the Spectator. He also starred with Baby Jane Holzer in Andy Warhol’s film Kiss. view articles
	Tom Heap	is a presenter of environment and animal documentaries, who appears on radio, Panorama and the BBC daytime show Animal 24:7. He has worked on the BBC staff for many years, starting out on the Today Programme and ending up as Rural Affairs Correspondent. view articles
	Matthew Heller	is a Los Angeles-based writer and editor. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, the Independent on Sunday, Reuters, Forbes, and the Sunday Telegraph. He edits On Point, a legal news website. view articles
	Edward Helmore	has been based in New York for a decade and writes, variously, for The Observer and The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Sky and Telescope. view articles
	Rachel Helyer Donaldson	is a freelance journalist and a sub-editor on The First Post. She has written for the Guardian, the Irish Independent, Handbag.com and the New Zealand Herald. She has also produced and directed UK content for Television New Zealand arts series Mercury Lane. view articles
	Michael Hewitt	is a freelance journalist based in Essex. He has contributed to the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Times and the Independent as well as magazines including New Woman and Elle.
	Katharine Hibbert	is a freelance journalist. She was shortlisted as Young Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards for features published in The Sunday Times Magazine. view articles
	Simon Hicks	was an award-winning film, TV and theatre director and designer. He designed Leon the Pig Farmer and directed and shot Olympic Judo, The Official Record of the Last Four Games. He was a top judo instructor and the founder of Fighting Films www.fightingfilms.com. He died in March 2007.
	Ivor Hill	graduated last year from Durham University with a BA in anthropology. He is currently working on worldwide media and development at SOAS in London. He is also a trained chef. view articles
	John Hind	has written for The Sunday Telegraph, OM, Paper, Top Gear, Dazed & Confused and The Guardian. Books by him include Rebel Radio, a history and study of pirate radio stations in the UK and The Comic Inquisition, an exploration of the lives and minds of humorists. view articles
	Ayaan Hirsi Ali	is a Dutch feminist, writer, and politician, who was born in Somalia. She is a prominent critic of Islam, and her screenplay for Theo Van Gogh's movie Submission led to death threats. Since Van Gogh's assassination by a Muslim extremist in 2004, she has lived in seclusion under the protection of Dutch authorities. view articles
	Christopher Hitchens	is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His latest book is God Is Not Great view articles
	Theo Hobson	is a religious commentator. He has written books on the Church of England and the Archbishop of Canterbury. His latest book is on Milton. view articles
	Bea Hodgkin	is the features assistant at Easy Living magazine before which she worked for Rowan Pelling at the Erotic Review. She has written for The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, Marmalade and the Literary Review, as well as for other internet sites, including www.kultureflash.net. view articles
	Godfrey Hodgson	worked as Washington correspondent for the Observer, Insight editor at the Sunday Times, foreign editor of the Independent and television reporter. He is an Associate Fellow of the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford. He has written a dozen books, mostly about American history and politics. He lives in West Oxfordshire. view articles
	Simon Hogg	was deputy editor of The First Post. From 2000 to 2005 he was student editor of The Daily Telegraph.
	Anthony Holden	is an author, journalist, translator, poker-player and Arsenal fan. He has written over 30 books including biographies of Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky, Laurence Olivier and the Prince of Wales, and an account of a year spent as a professional poker player, Big Deal. He is classical music critic of The Observer. view articles
	Ben Holland	was a photographer based in East Africa. He died in a motorcycle accident in October 2006.
	Christopher Holmes	is a translator in west London. He has lived in France and Japan. view articles
	Brian Homer	is a designer, writer and photographer who runs Homer Creative, a graphic communications agency in Birmingham. He is the co-author with cartoonist Steve Bell of Chairman Blair’s Little Red Book. He is one of the editors of Villa Matters, an occasional fanzine.
	David Hooper	is intellectual property partner at City solicitors Reynolds Porter Chamberlain. He has acted for Peter Wright in the Spycatcher case and, more recently, for Marie Jones in the copyright action over Stones in His Pockets. view articles
	John Hooper	is the correspondent in Rome for The Economist and The Guardian. He has spent more than 20 years reporting from abroad. Before returning to Italy in 2003, he was The Guardian’s Berlin correspondent. He is the author of a prize-winning book on Spain, The New Spaniards (Penguin). view articles
	Simon Hooper	has covered international politics for the New Statesman, The Big Issue, and CNN.com and international sport for Sports Illustrated and FourFourTwo. He has traveled extensively in Eastern Europe and Latin America and is writing a political-travel book about elections around the world. view articles
	Nigel Horne	executive editor, is a former features editor of The Sunday Times, features editor of the London Daily News, news features editor of The Daily Telegraph and editor of The Telegraph Magazine. He has also been editorial director for Magnum Photos Millennium Project and editorial director of magazines for the Globe and Mail, Toronto. view articles
	Alice Horton	worked as a reporter on the Evening Standard for two years before moving to The Economist in 2005. She also writes about art and theatre for Harper's Bazaar. view articles
	Ed Howker	is a freelance writer for Private Eye and The Guardian. He was director of research at the Centre for Policy Studies and is co-author of Direct Democracy: an agenda for a New Model Party. view articles
	Christopher Hudson	writes about history and literature for the daily and Sunday newspapers. His novels include Colombo Heat and The Killing Fields. His last book, Spring Street Summer, was short-listed for the Hawthornden Prize. view articles
	Lucy Hughes-Hallett	is the author of Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen (Harper Perennial) and of Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions. She is currently working on a book about Gabriele d'Annunzio and she is a regular contributor to The Sunday Times books section. view articles
	Andrew Hutchings	was senior developer for The First Post. He previously ran the servers for an internet service provider, Netserve Consultants Ltd, and is an Open Source software developer and evangelist.
	Alan Hutchison	was a journalist and publisher for 30 years specialising in Africa. His book on the history of elephants in Europe will be published by Arlea in autumn 2007. view articles
I	Getty Images	is The First Post’s prinicpal picture library. The international picture agency employs 900 photographers around the world. Founded in 1995 by Mark Getty and Jonathan Klein, it provides editorial and creative images to advertisers, magazines and newspapers, and new media. www.gettyimages.com
	Mark Inglefield	is the People editor of The First Post. He is a director of internet marketing agency Reading Room and has previously worked as a political correspondent for The Times and edited The Sunday Telegraph’s Mandrake column. view articles
	Ashley Inglis	is a writer, film-maker, and a freelance journalist. After reading English at Oxford he trained at the National Film & TV School. He is currently based in Oxford. view articles
	James Inverne	is editor of the Gramophone magazine (before which he was European Performing Arts Correspondent for Time magazine) and a regular arts writer for The Wall Street Journal Europe. He has written four books, the last one being Inverne’s Stage and Screen Trivia. He also broadcasts regularly for CNN. view articles
	Mark Irving	writes on the visual arts for The Times and is architecture critic for the Tablet and writes books, including Lofts and Porn?, on cultural politics. He has written for every broadsheet in the UK and for specialist journals internationally. He is a documentary scriptwriter and occasionally a presenter.
J	Ian Jack	was one of the founding editors of The Independent on Sunday and edited Granta from 1995 to 2007. In the 1970s and 1980s he was a foreign correspondent in India and Pakistan. Today he writes a column for the The Guardian. view articles
	Philip Jacobson	is a veteran foreign correspondent who has reported on conflicts around the world for The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph among others. He has co-authored several books, the most recent on the Bloody Sunday killings in Derry. view articles
	Seth Jacobson	is production editor of The First Post. He has written for the Daily Mirror, Dazed & Confused and Sleaze Nation, and has contributed to books on music. view articles
	Liam James	is the pseudonym for an actor living in London. view articles
	Bianca Janosevic	is publisher of The First Post and head of digital for the US edition of sister publication The Week Magazine. Previously, she's worked as general manager of the online operations of the New York newspaper The Daily News, and as marketing director of The New York Times' web site.
	Vikram Jayanti	is a London-based director of documentaries. His subjects have included films on LSD guru Ken Kesey, crime-writer James Ellroy, chess champion Garry Kasparov, artist Julian Schnabel and music producer Phil Spector. He was a producer of the Oscar-winning 1996 documentary When We Were Kings, about Muhammed Ali's famous 'Rumble in the Jungle'. view articles
	Andrew Jefford	is a leading British wine writer and author of the prizewinning The New France and Peat Smoke and Spirit - A portrait of Islay and its whiskies. view articles
	Jolyon Jenkins	is a senior producer at the BBC. He spent ten years working as a producer at File on 4 for Radio 4. view articles
	David Jenkins	consultant editor, has written for numerous national newspapers and magazines. He lives in London. view articles
	Tiffany Jenkins	is arts and society director at the Institute of Ideas. She is researching attitudes towards human remains at the University of Kent at Canterbury. view articles
	Rachel Johnson	is a columnist on the Sunday Times and the author of the bestselling Notting Hell (Penguin 2006) and Shire Hell (Penguin 2008). She lives in London and Somerset. view articles
	Luke Johnson	Luke Johnson is 47 and writes a weekly column for the Financial Times. He is also chairman of Channel 4 and runs a private equity firm called Risk Capital Partners. He lives In London with his wife Liza and their two children. view articles
	David Johnson	is a freelance writer based in London. He has edited magazines for the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times. view articles
	Robert Johnston	is a doctor and freelance journalist. He was an executive producer for Lifetime Television in New York and medical adviser for the Millennium Dome Body Zone. view articles
	Fanny Johnstone	is a London-based freelance journalist specialising in motoring and lifestyle features. Her career began with a motoring column for The Daily Telegraph, and she has since written for numerous other publications including The Observer, Marie Claire, Harpers & Queen, Red and the Idler. view articles
	Gray Jolliffe	began his career in advertising as a copywriter and subsequently creative director in some of London's top agencies including BMP, CDP & WCRS. He now works as a cartoonist and book illustrator. His most notorious character is Wicked Willie.
	Lee Jones	is Rose Research Fellow in International Relations at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. view articles
	Nigel Jones	is a freelance author, historian and journalist. He has written biographies of the novelist and playwright Patrick Hamilton, the poet Rupert Brooke, and the fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, plus studies of the Great War (The War Walk) and the birth of Nazism. A former deputy editor of History Today and BBC History Magazine, he currently conducts the author profiles for the Daily Mail Book Club, reviews regularly for The Sunday Telegraph and Literary Review and lives in Lewes, Sussex.
	Dafydd Jones	is a freelance photographer who has photographed people and parties for a number of magazines including Tatler, Vanity Fair, New York Observer, Talk magazine, The Times and The Sunday Telegraph. He has exhibited at the Proud Gallery in London. His work can be seen at www.dafjones.com. view articles
	Gary Jones	is a freelance journalist based in Shanghai. Founder and publisher of Slice, mainland China’s first English-language golf magazine, he has also written for Time magazine, The Sunday Times, GQ, and the Sydney Morning Herald, among others. view articles
	Lewis Jones	is a writer and editor, and lives in London. view articles
	Peter Jones	a classical scholar, writes the Ancient & modern column in The Spectator, reviews for The Sunday Telegraph, features regularly on the radio and founded the charity Friends of Classics, whose magazine ad familiares he edits: www.friends-classics.demon.co.uk. view articles
	Tim Judah	covers the Balkans for The Economist. He also writes for the New York Review of Books among others. His books include The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia and Kosovo: War and Revenge. view articles
	Judex	is a leading London lawyer.
K	Daniel Kalder	has lived in Moscow for 10 years. He is the author of the anti- travel book Lost Cosmonaut (Faber & Faber, 2006). www.danielkalder.com view articles
	Oliver Kamm	is a leader writer the Times. view articles
	John Kampfner	was until recently editor of the New Statesman. A broadcaster and commentator on international affairs and British politics, he is also author of the acclaimed Blair's Wars. He is currently working on a new book on the decline of democracy around the world entitled The Pact. view articles
	John Karter	is now a freelance writer. He has been racing editor of The Times, and racing correspondent for The Sunday Times and the The Independent. He is the author of two biographies Lester - Return of a Legend and Frankie Dettori, the Illustrated Biography, published by Hodder Headline. He is also a qualified psychotherapist, his book On Training to be a Therapist is published by Open University Press. view articles
	Jonathan Keates	is a prizewinning biographer, novelist and travel writer. His books include Allegro Postillions and Smile Please. He reviews regularly for the The Times Literary Supplement, The Spectator and the Literary Review. view articles
	Alex Kee	is a teacher and sports writer. He teaches A-levels to trainee footballers at London's Premiership clubs. He has been a football fanzine writer, Leeds Utd anti-racist campaigner, and a guest on Sky Sports' Fans Forum. view articles
	Peter Kellner	is chairman of the pollsters YouGov. Previously he was a journalist for more than 30 years, for The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Independent, Evening Standard, New Statesman, BBC Newsnight and Channel Four politics programmes. view articles
	Annie Kelly	is a freelance journalist, currently travelling in South America. She has written for The Guardian, The Times, The Big Issue and New Statesman. view articles
	Patricia Kelly	is a writer and broadcaster based in Brussels. In 1989 she founded the CNN bureau, for whom she reported for 12 years on EU and Nato affairs. view articles
	Lillian Kennett	is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Time and the Taconic Press, in New York. Her interests include theatre, literature and international politics. view articles
	Andrew Kenny	was born in Glasgow but has lived most of his life in South Africa. He has degrees in physics and mechanical engineering, and has worked as a school teacher, labourer, production manager and engineer. He is a freelance journalist, writing articles on political and environmental themes.
	Tabish Khair	was born in 1966 in a small town of Bihar. He was educated mostly in India and is now settled in Denmark. He is an associate professor at Aarhus University, and writes for British, Indian and Danish papers, including the Guardian and the Hindu. His recent books include the novel, The Bus Stopped (Picador), and Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing (Signal Books). www.tabishkhair.co.uk view articles
	Ed King	has written on film and TV for The Sunday Telegraph, Mail on Sunday, Total Film and DVD Review. He has a masters in Latin American Studies from Cambridge University. view articles
	Gavin Knight	has written for the Financial Times, The Times, New Statesman, Evening Standard and other publications. He worked for Global Insight, the economic forecaster and as a commercial consultant on Russia. He has travelled extensively in the former Soviet Union and lived in Odessa. He speaks fluent Russian and has commented on Russian affairs on CNN, Sky, BBC and ITN. view articles
	Rhoda Koenig	a New Yorker now resident in London, is a former night-club singer, travel writer, literary editor, and theatre critic for Punch and The Independent. She writes about society and the arts for publications here and in the United States. view articles
	Askold Krushelnycky	is a British journalist and author based in Prague. He has been a foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times and the European. His book An Orange Revolution - a personal journey through Ukrainian history was published by Harvil Secker in spring 2006. view articles
	Serena Kutchinsky	is a journalist specialising in music, style and technology. She’s currently group editor for digital publishers, Ramp Industry, and also writes for The Independent, Condé Nast Traveller, Electronic Beats, Marmalade and BBC Collective. view articles
	Holly Kyte	is the Arts & Life section editor of The First Post. She also writes freelance articles for The Sunday Telegraph and Telegraph.co.uk. view articles
L	John Lahr	is the senior drama critic of The New Yorker, where he has written about theatre and popular culture since 1992. Among his eighteen books are Notes on a Cowardly Lion: The Biography of Bert Lahr and Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton, which was made into a film. view articles
	Christina Lamb	is foreign affairs correspondent for the Sunday Times, covering conflicts from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. She has won Foreign Correspondent of the Year award five times. Her most recent book is Small Wars Permitting, which is part memoir and part collection of her dispatches. She lives between London and Portugal with her husband and son. view articles
	Lucinda Lambton	is a photographer, writer and broadcaster on architectural matters. She has researched, written and presented over 70 television programmes, most notably her series Lucinda Lambton’s Alphabet of Britain. She has written and taken the photographs for nine books, including Temples of Convenience, the best selling history of the lavatory. view articles
	Julia Langdon	has been a political correspondent at Westminster since 1971, writing for the Daily Mirror, The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph, The Observer and Mail on Sunday among others. She was the first woman to be appointed political editor of a national daily newspaper. She broadcasts regularly on Sky Television and the BBC. She is the author of Mo Mowlam - The Biography and is currently writing the biography of Gordon Brown. view articles
	William Langley	began in newspapers at the Daily Mail where he rose to become chief foreign correspondent with the freedom to roam the world at will. He turned freelance in the late 1980s and regularly contributes to The Sunday Telegraph and magazines here and abroad. view articles
	Charles Laurence	has reported from every corner of the USA and the New World. He currently lives with his teenage son and a dog in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, and Woodstock, New York. view articles
	Mark Law	is the editor of The First Post. He worked as a publicist for show business clients and the new city of Milton Keynes, before going to Fleet Street to join the Mail on Sunday, The Times and The Daily Telegraph as a features editor and writer. He was the comment editor of The Sunday Telegraph until September 2004 and is the author of The Pyjama Game, A Journey into Judo, published in June 2007 by Aurum Press, for which he was named as Best New Writer in the 2008 British Sports Book awards. view articles
	Mark Lawson	is a The Guardian columnist and a radio (Front Row, Radio 4) and television (BBC2's Newsnight Review) presenter. He also writes television scripts (including BBC2's Absolute Power) and novels, including Idlewild and Going Out Live, the story of a BBC presenter who goes mad. His most recent book is Enough is Enough: or The Emergency Government. view articles
	Adam LeBor	is the Central Europe Correspondent for the The Times. He also contributes to The Sunday Times, New Statesman, the Jewish Chronicle and Literary Review and reviews thrillers for The Economist. He is the author of Complicity with Evil: The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide (Yale University Press). view articles
	Justin Leighton	was born in London in 1967, he left school at 14 and worked as a bricklayer before becoming a photographer. His work has been published in every major newspaper and magazine. He has travelled to over 40 countries, covering such major stories as terrorism in Northern Ireland, the fall of the Soviet Union and the Berlin wall, and wars in the Balkans and the Middle East. In 1996 he won News Photographer of the Year. www.justinleighton.com
	Sam Leith	is the former Literary Editor of the Daily Telegraph, and author of Daddy, Is Timmy In Heaven Now? (Canongate). view articles
	William Leith	is the author of The Hungry Years, a memoir of bingeing, and writes for The Guardian, The Observer and The Daily Telegraph. His new book, Bits of Me Are Falling Off (Bloomsbury) contains an analysis of capitalism. view articles
	Sophie Leris	is a freelance journalist with a special interest in fashion. She is a former features editor of Art Review and writes for the Saturday Times Magazine, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent on Sunday, ES magazine and Easy Living. view articles
	Quentin Letts	is a political sketchwriter and theatre critic for the Daily Mail. He recently published Fifty People Who Buggered Up Britain, a torpedo aimed at Britain's cultural and political elite. view articles
	Paul Levy	writes about food and the arts. He helped coin the word ‘foodie’ and is editor of The Letters of Lytton Strachey, just published in paperback. view articles
	Alan Lewis	is a photographer based in Northern Ireland. He has documented the troubles for the past 30 years: alanlewis.pics@btinternet.com
	Jemima Lewis	is consultant editor of the Week and writes comment pieces for The Independent. She lives in London.
	David Lindsay	is a writer based in Lanchester, County Durham. He has been a Councillor and a school governor since 1999. He holds two Durham degrees. view articles
	Magnus Linklater	lives in Edinburgh. He is Scotland Editor of The Times. He was the editor of the London Daily News, launched by Robert Maxwell in 1987, and The Scotsman from 1988 to 1994. His many books include Hoax: the Inside Story of the Howard Hughes-Clifford Irving Affair (with Stephen Fay and Lewis Chester). view articles
	John Lloyd	is the founding editor of the FT Magazine and former editor of the New Statesman. His previous jobs on the paper have included industrial editor and Moscow bureau chief. He has been the editor of Time Out and New Statesman. He has worked as reporter and producer on LWT’s London Programme and Weekend World. He sits on the editorial board of Prospect magazine and the board of Moscow School of Political Studies. He is the author of Loss Without Limit: The British Miners' Strike and Rebirth of a Nation: an Anatomy of Russia and What the Media Are Doing to Our Politics. view articles
	Lalya Lloyd	won The Times Literary Supplement's Student Centenary Writing Award in 2002, with a review of Mikhail Bulgakov's Master and Margarita. She graduated in Classics from Newnham College, Cambridge in 2005. view articles
	Roland Lloyd Parry	has written and reported for TIME magazine, The Scotsman, The Times, TLS, Museums Journal, Ham and High and Bulletin magazine in Brussels. view articles
	Loretta Loach	has written for the Guardian, the Observer and the New Statesman and appeared on Radio 4's All in the Mind. She has a PhD in history and has worked on many TV documentaries, including Channel 4's historical drama documentary, Queen Victoria's Empire. view articles
	James Loader	is an English teacher who has taught in Kent, Lincolnshire and India. He has edited two anthologies of fiction and poetry, Cold Comfort: Stories of Death and Bereavement and Generations: Poems between Fathers, Mothers, Daughters, Sons, and written numerous reviews and essays for magazines, including Time and Pendulum.
	Suzanne Lowry	has worked for nine newspapers, starting with the Belfast Telegraph and including The Guardian (where she launched the Guardian Women page), The Observer and The Sunday Times. She moved to Paris in 1986 to join the International Herald Tribune, then became The Daily and Sunday Telegraph Paris correspondent for more than eight years. She has written four books; The Guilt Cage: Housewives and a Decade of Liberation, The Young Fogey Handbook, The Cult of Diana: The Princess in the Mirror, La Vie en Rose – Living in France. She now lives in the South of France.
	Edward Loxton	writes about Thailand, Burma, Laos and Vietnam for a number of regional publications from his base in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand, and about Burma for Irrawaddy, the Burmese exile magazine that aims to bring about regime change there. His second book, The Orchid Cafe, a humorous look at life in a remote Thai village, is to be published in mid-2007. view articles
	Laurence Lustgarten	is a former university professor of law who chairs the board of directors of a debt and benefits advice centre, and for many years sat as a member of what were then called Social Security Appeal Tribunals. view articles
	Edward Luttwak	is a military consultant and formerly worked for an oil consultancy. He is a Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington and President of Servicios Agricolas Amazonas, a conservation cattle ranch in the Bolivian Amazon. He serves as consultant to the US National Security Council, the White House Chief of Staff, the US Department of Defense, US Army, US Air Force, US Marine Corps, Department of State, and several allied governments. His books include: Strategy: the Logic of War and Peace (Harvard U. Press); Turbocapitalism: winners and losers in the global economy; The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire (John Hopkins U. Press) and The Pentagon and the Art of War. He was born in Transylvania in 1942 and educated in Sicily and Italy until age eleven. view articles
	John Lyndon	lives in Edinburgh where he is working on a novel. He has worked for Time Out, The List and Fest. view articles
	Neil Lyndon	has written for every newspaper in Britain. He was the motoring correspondent of the The Sunday Telegraph for 11 years. He is also a commentator on gender politics. view articles
M	Joseph Mackertich	edits Media Circus. He has lived and worked in the east of China, and held a senior post in the English department of Yangzhou University. He has written for a number of publications including the Observer and the Guardian. view articles
	Daniel Mackie	has been an illustrator for 10 years using 3D modelling packages and freehand drawing. Daniel has had profiles in Computer Arts, Design Week and e-design. Clients include Adobe, Adidas, Arena, BP, The Economist, The Guardian, Maxim, Natwest, Penguin, Samsung and The Times.
	Adam Macqueen	is a reporter for Private Eye, writing mostly for the Street of Shame and Eye TV pages. His first book The King of Sunlight, is a biography of the eccentric Victorian millionaire and philanthropist William Lever. view articles
	Denis Macshane	has been Labour MP for Rotherham since 1994 and was Minster for Europe from 2002 to 2005. He is a regular contributor to The Guardian. view articles
	Jamie Malanowski	is a New York based writer who has been on the founding staff of Spy and was the managing editor of Playboy. His books include the novels Mr Stupid goes to Washington and The Coup view articles
	Donald Malcolm	is the pseudonym for a former lobby correspondent and Labour party spin doctor. view articles
	Kenan Malik	is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster. He is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Department of Political, International and Policy Studies at the University of Surrrey. He also presents Nightwaves, BBC Radio 3's flagship arts and ideas magazine, and Analysis, BBC Radio 4's current affairs strand. He is the author of trange Fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate. view articles
	Tom Mangold	has worked for the BBC since 1964. As a war correspondent he has covered conflicts in Aden, Vietnam, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, the Middle East and Afghanistan. He has made over 100 documentaries for Panorama, including groundbreaking investigations into the sleeping pill Halcion and the false arrest and imprisonment of three men for a murder in Cardiff. He wrote and presented the Radio 4 show The FBI at 100 and has written four books, the most recent of which, Plague Wars, looks at modern day biological warfare. view articles
	Bill Mann	has written about sports and popular culture for magazines in England and Ireland. view articles
	Laurence Marks	is co-writer with Maurice Gran of many television comedy classics including Shine On Harvey Moon, Birds of a Feather and New Statesman. view articles
	Howard Marks	Educated in nuclear physics and philosophy at the University of Oxford during the 1960s, he is best known for smuggling massive consignments of marijuana. Released from a United States maximum security penitentiary in 1995, Howard Marks wrote his bestselling autobiography, Mr Nice, now translated into seven languages. Since then he has written two additional best sellers, Dope Stories and Senor Nice, as well as several articles on travel, sport, and music for the national press. view articles
	Minette Marrin	is a journalist, broadcaster and fiction writer. Formerly a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, she is now a columnist for the Sunday Times, shortlisted for Columnist of the Year at the 2004 Press Awards. http://www.minettemarrin.com/ view articles
	Andrew Martin	is a prolific journalist who often writes on transport issues. His latest book, How To Get Things Really Flat: A Man's Guide to Ironing, Dusting and Other Household Arts, is published by Short Books. The next title in his series of Edwardian railway mysteries is The Last Train To Scarborough, and this is published by Faber in March. view articles
	Allan Massie	regularly contributes to The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph and The Scotsman. He has written 19 novels including Shadows of Empire and an Imperial series about ancient Rome. view articles
	Robert Matthews	is Visiting Reader in Science at Aston University, Birmingham, and writes on science-related issues for The Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times and Daily Express. Originally trained as a physicist, his academic interests now lie chiefly in the use and abuse of statistical methods by the scientific community. His latest book, 25 Big Ideas: Science that is Changing our World, is published by Oneworld. view articles
	Alex McBride	is a criminal barrister. He has written for Prospect, the New Statesman and BBC's From Our Own Correspondent. view articles
	Helen McCarthy	is a writer, editor and Japanese animation expert whose most recent work is the Anime Encyclopedia, published by Stone Bridge Press. She is currently writing her first novel. view articles
	Melanie McDonagh	has written for several national newspapers. She lives in London. view articles
	Damien McElroy	is a journalist specialising in foreign affairs. A former Beijing and Istanbul correspondent, he has also lived in Hong Kong and Shanghai and travelled on assignment to more than 40 countries around the globe for papers including The Independent and The Wall Street Journal. view articles
	Peter McGill	was based in Japan for 18 years, mostly as Tokyo correspondent of the Observer. He is writing a book about Japan and freelancing for magazines. view articles
	Sinclair McKay	writes for the Daily Mail. He has run the London Marathon in under three and a half hours. view articles
	Julie McKee	is a freelance journalist and musician. She has worked on the Sunday Times, the Independent on Sunday and Guardian Unlimited, among other titles. She also has a Masters in Jazz from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and performs across Britain as a singer-songwriter and pianist. juliemckee.com
	Leo Mckinstry	is a Belfast-born author and journalist. He writes regularly for the Daily Mail, Daily Express and The Sunday Telegraph. He has also produced five books including a biography of the Victorian Prime Minister, Lord Rosebery. view articles
	Charlie Methven	started his career as a reporter on the Sporting Life. He then moved onto The Daily Telegraph, eventually becoming a columnist, before transferring to the Evening Standard. In 2005, he founded The Sportsman, the horseracing and betting newspaper which ceased publication in October 2006. view articles
	Joanna Metson Scott	has been working as a photographer for the past two years shooting portraiture and documentary subjects. She has shot for magazines such as i-d, Sleazenation, Trace magazine and The Guardian. www.jometsonscott.co.uk view articles
	Kenneth Minogue	is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics. His Alien Powers: The Pure Theory of Ideology has just been republished in the United States..
	Gareth Mitchell	is a science and technology journalist. He presents Digital Planet on the BBC World Service and lectures in broadcast and written journalism at Imperial College London. view articles
	Tom Moore	is a designer for The First Post. He has been a freelancer for ten years; clients include Playstation, Vodaphone, Planet 24 and John Brown Citrus Publishing. He is a drummer for the electro-indie band Eskimo Disco www.eskimodisco.com, who have just released their second single What is Woman? on the legendary Stiff Records http://www.stiff-records.com.
	James Morris	was a promoter and DJ in East London. He is now marketing executive of The First Post.
	Dafydd Morris	masthead animator, is a freelance animator living in London. He graduated recently from De Montfort university with a degree in multimedia design. dafydd_morris@hotmail.com
	Nicole Mowbray	is the senior writer at Cosmopolitan magazine. Prior to this, she was freelance for a year and staff on The Observer for two and a half. She has also written for G2, The Times, New Statesman, Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Marmalade and Nylon magazines.
	Moses Moyo	is the pseudonym of an independent Zimbabwe-born journalist based in Harare view articles
	Kevin Myers	has been writing about Northern Ireland almost from the earliest days of the Troubles. Until recently, he was a columnist on The Irish Times. He is the author of one novel, Banks of Green Willow, and a selection of his columns has been published by Four Courts. view articles
N	Chas Newkey-Burden	is the author of a number of books including The Reduced History Of Britain. His next book, Great Email Disasters, will be published in 2007. He writes for numerous publications, including the Mail On Sunday, Time Out, Attitude and Four Four Two. view articles
	Martin Newland	started in newspapers on the Catholic Herald. He joined the London Daily Telegraph and became home editor before going to Canada in 1998 as a launch editor and deputy editor of the National Post. He returned to Britain in 2003 as editor of The Daily Telegraph and resigned in 2005. view articles
	Rebecca Newman	is a diarist and feature writer for The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and GQ. She recently returned to London after a year spent in California, as a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley. view articles
	Daisy Newton Dunn	is a freelance television producer and journalist with a degree in Mandarin. She has lived and worked in China for over four years. She is a regular contributer to Tatler in Hong Kong. view articles
	Morten Nilsson	is an artist and photographer based in Denmark. For more information visit his site: www.mortennilsson.com.
	Jonathan Noone	oversaw the marketing and promotion of The First Post. He has a postgraduate in marketing & commerce from the University of Warwick where he specialised in digital and new media economy. He worked for Ogilvy & Mather on major accounts such as KFC, Kimberly-Clark and Ford before partnering Adland's Patrick Collister in an online advertising and training business.
O	Jennifer O'Mahony	is in her final year of studying English Literature at the University of York, and has written freelance articles for regional newspapers and the Idler magazine. view articles
	Brendan O'Neill	is editor of spiked. He has written for The Spectator, New Statesman, The Guardian, Christian Science Monitor, Slate and Salon. view articles
	Stephen Overell	is a specialist writer on work. Based in London, he is a regular contributor to the Financial Times, writes columns in the employment press, and is a regular speaker at conferences. He is preparing a book on the meaning of work. view articles
	John O’Sullivan	is the editor at large of the American conservative magazine, National Review. He has been a columnist and editor on several British newspapers, including the The Times and The Daily Telegraph, and he served as special advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the mid-eighties.
P	Margareta Pagano	is business editor of the Independent on Sunday. She has worked for The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph. She was a founding editor of the Financial News, a City newspaper and online news service. view articles
	Greg Palast	is the author of The New York Times bestseller, Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, and is perhaps best known as the journalist who broke the story of how Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black Florida citizens from voter rolls before the 2000 election, thereby handing the White House to his brother George. view articles
	Bruce Palling	is a former Bangkok correspondent for the BBC and The Times. view articles
	Kim Parker	is a graduate of University College London and now working as a beauty journalist. She is currently the beauty assistant at Red magazine, and has previously worked at ES Magazine and Vogue. view articles
	Julius Pasteiner	is a London based writer and journalist. He has contributed to numerous publications and newspapers in the UK. view articles
	Mark Paterson	lived in Beijing for seven years, contributing news and comment about China to newspapers in Britain. A former columnist for the Standard in Hong Kong, he now works for Drum magazine in South Africa. view articles
	Pearson Phillips	spent 40 years working for Fleet Street dailies and Sundays. He now writes on travel and textiles and sells old garden tools in his Kitchen Garden Antiques shop at London’s Columbia Road flower market. view articles
	Charlotte Phillips	is a London-based freelance journalist and music teacher. She has written on parenting, education and health related topics for The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday and TES.
	Alan Philps	has worked as a foreign correspondent in Russia, the Middle East and other parts for the world since 1979. He has worked for Reuters (1978-90), the Sunday Correspondent (1990-91) and the Daily Telegraph (1991-2006), where he covered the Caucasus before he became foreign editor. view articles
	Alexander Plough	is a trainee journalist from West London. Currently studying at Harlow College, he is on work experience at the First Post and has also written for a number local and national papers. view articles
	Stephen Pollard	is a writer and journalist. His biography of David Blunkett was published by Hodder in December 2004, and he is co-author (with Andrew Adonis) of A Class Act: the Myth of Britain’s Classless Society (Penguin). He writes in The Times and Daily Mail. He has been described by the The Sunday Times as a New Labour "guru", and by the New Statesman as a leading "British neo-conservative". He is President of the Centre for the New Europe, the Brussels-based free market think tank. view articles
	David Pollard	studied physics at Oxford and takes an active interest in natural science view articles
	Peter Popham	began his life in journalism as a schoolkid on a notorious issue of Oz, moved to Japan and wrote a book about Tokyo (The City at the End of the World), and covered wars, disasters and coups in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan for the Independent before moving to his current post as its Rome correspondent. view articles
	Henry Porter	is the London Editor of Vanity Fair and writes for the Observer. He has written five novels, the last of which, a children's book called The Master of the Fallen Chairs, has just been published in paperback. Next year, Orion will publish Deep Truth, a political thriller set a few years in the future view articles
	Mike Power	is a correspondent for the Reuters news agency in Panama City, Panama. He has freelanced in Haiti for Britain's sadly-expired Jack magazine and as a news reporter for Canada's CBC radio. His work has appeared in Scotland's Sunday Herald and The Big Issue magazine, where he was chief sub-editor and features writer between 1998 and 2003. view articles
	Dominic Prince	a former City editor of the Sunday Express, is a freelance writer and TV producer. Among others he writes for The Economist, The Sun and Private Eye. He recently made a film about hare coursing. view articles
Q	Antonia Quirke	lives in London. Her book Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers was published in the UK in 2007 and in the US in 2008. She is a columnist for the New Statesman, writes for the Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Times, and presents on the World Service. view articles
R	George Rafael	a freelance arts writer, contributes to Archipelago, Art Review, Cineaste and Salon. view articles
	Margaret Rand	was editor of Wine International, Wine & Spirit and Whisky Magazine. She writes for Decanter, World of Fine Wine, Harpers & Queen, Square Meal and Drinks Business. Her award-winning book, Grapes & Wines, is published by Little, Brown. view articles
	Colin Randall	is the former Paris bureau chief for The Daily Telegraph. view articles
	Piers Paul Read	is the author of novels (A Married Man), reportage (Alive. The History of the Andes Survivors), history (The Templars), biography (Alec Guinness) and, most recently, a collection of essays on religion and morality, Hell and other Destinations. view articles
	Eric Reguly	writes a business column for the Globe and Mail in Toronto and co-hosts a daily programme on Canada's Report on Business Television. He has worked in London as business media writer of The Times and in New York as correspondent for the Financial Post of Canada. view articles
	Loïc Rich	is a freelance journalist and screen writer from Cornwall. view articles
	Daniel Richler	wrote and directed Real Vampires, a documentary to be aired on Discovery Channel in 2007. view articles
	Jacob Richler	has been food writer, restaurant critic and motoring columnist for the National Post for seven years. His cookbook with Susur Lee, Susur: A Culinary Life, was published by Ten Speed Press in November. view articles
	Martha Richler	is a cartoonist, illustrator and writer, living in London. She is author of the best-selling A World of Art, a history of art based on the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art In Washington DC. view articles
	Noah Richler	is a writer and broadcaster living in Toronto, Canada. He made documentaries and features for BBC Radio in London before returning to Canada in 1998 to become the books editor of the National Post. His book This Is My Country, What’s Yours?, a portrait of contemporary Canada told through the work of its writers, is published by McClelland & Stewart. view articles
	Alasdair Riley	has been a staff feature writer on several Fleet Street newspapers and magazines. He recently moved back to Edinburgh.
	Yvonne Roberts	is a writer and broadcaster who contributes regularly to The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The Observer and More4 News. She is the author of four novels including, Shake! and two non-fiction books on men, women and sexual politics. Where Did Our Love Go? – Reviving a marriage in 12 months is published by Short Books. view articles
	Andrew Roberts	His last book was A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900. He holds an honorary doctorate from Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri and is presently writing a book about the relations between Churchill, Roosevelt, General George Marshall and Lord Alanbrooke. His website is at www.andrew-roberts.net view articles
	Stephen Robinson	reported from Ireland, Africa and North America for The Daily Telegraph. He is now a freelance journalist in London, also working on the authorised biography of WF Deedes. view articles
	David Robson	is chief feature writer of the Daily Express. Previous incarnations have included features editor of The Independent, sports editor of the Sunday Times and, long ago, editor of the teenage girls' magazine Honey. view articles
	Nicholas Roe	is a freelance journalist and travel writer. His articles have appeared mainly in The Daily Telegraph and The Times. view articles
	Ben Rooney	launched the award-winning electronic telegraph, Europe’s first daily web newspaper, in 1994 and was launch editor of their technology section, connected in 1996. He has also written about defence and foreign affairs for The Daily Telegraph since 1991. He is the author of How To Win Your School Appeal, published by A & C Black, and wrote a best-selling book about the 1991 Gulf War and The Daily Telegraph's book of the 2003 war. view articles
	Howard Rosenberg	is the Pulitzer Prize-winning former television critic for the Los Angeles Times, where his column was distributed nationally for 25 years. He teaches journalism and critical writing at the University of Southern California, and is completing a novel. view articles
	Martha Rosenberg	is a columnist and cartoonist who frequently writes about the impact of the pharmaceutical, food and gun industries on public health. A former medical copywriter, her work has appeared in the Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, as well as on the BBC and in the original National Lampoon. view articles
	Helen Russell	is a freelance journalist based in London. A former editor for the Telegraph Group and Tatler Asia, she now specialises in writing about arts, food and travel and has worked for the Sunday Times, Independent Magazines, the Guardian, Grazia India, Take a Break and icon. view articles
	Hugh Russell	writes on African affairs, having spent several years living and working in Zambia. He has also written extensively for television, radio and the stage, both here and abroad. view articles
S	Dominic Sandbrook	is a freelance historian and a Fellow of the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford. He is the author of two books on Britain in the 1960s, Never Had It So Good and White Heat. His articles and reviews have appeared in The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The Observer and The Daily Mail, among others. view articles
	Mark Sanderson	writes the Literary Life column for The Sunday Telegraph and reviews crime fiction for The Evening Standard. He is the author of several books including Don't Look Now (BFI Modern Classics), a study of the film by Nicolas Roeg; Audacious Perversion (Do-not Press), a novel; and the widely-aclaimed memoir Wrong Rooms (Scribner).
	Emine Saner	lives in London and writes for The Guardian. She has been a feature writer at The Evening Standard and has written for The Sunday Times and several glossy magazines. view articles
	Igal Sarna	writes from Tel Aviv on Palestinian affairs for Yediot Aharonot, Israeli’s largest daily paper. After serving as a tank commander in the Yom Kippur War in 1973, he became one of the founders of the Peace Now movement. He received the IBM Tolerance Prize for a series of cover stories on Iranian political prisoners in Israel. His book Broken Promises is published by Atlantic Books. view articles
	Patrick Sawer	is a London journalist who has written for the Evening Standard, New Statesman, Mail on Sunday and the Times. He has covered several prominent murder cases, including the unsolved abduction and killing of Surrey schoolgirl Milly Dowler, and the murder of City tax expert Jay Abatan. view articles
	Sarah Schaefer	is director of the Europe programme at the Foreign Policy Centre. She has worked as a political correspondent at The Independent and as director of communications at the Social Market Foundation. More recently she was political adviser at the Foreign Commonwealth Office to Dr Denis MacShane when he was Minister for Europe. view articles
	Hugh Schofield	is a former BBC correspondent in Paris, Jerusalem and Madrid. Based in Paris, he covers France for the English language service of Agence France Presse. view articles
	Simon Scott Plummer	was introduced to Pakistan in 1959, when he spent a year teaching in Lahore. He started his journalistic career with Reuters, spent 16 years on The Times and in 1986 joined The Daily Telegraph, where he was diplomatic correspondent and chief foreign leader writer. He now works freelance, specialising in Asia. view articles
	Eliot Sefton	is a London-based freelance journalist who has also worked in marketing. His interests include archaeology and opera. view articles
	Will Self	is the author of six novels, six collections of shorter fiction, and four of his journalism. He is a contributor to a plethora of publications, both in England and abroad, as well as being a regular broadcaster on radio and television. He lives in London. view articles
	Carl Senna	is based in Saint John, New Brunswick. He has written commentary for The New York Times Magazine. His books include Colin Powell: A Man of War and Peace, 1992. view articles
	John Sessions	is an actor and comedian. His TV work includes Stella Street, Whose Line is it Anyway? and QI. His films include The Gangs of New York, Rag Tale, The Merchant of Venice, and The Good Shepherd. He will shortly be seen in The Last Station, starring Helen Mirren and James McAvoy. He lives in South London. view articles
	David Sexton	is the literary editor of The Evening Standard, radio critic of The Sunday Telegraph, and a judge of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2005. view articles
	Nicholas Shakespeare	is a prize-winning author and broadcaster who lives in England and Tasmania. Translated into 14 languages, his books include the authorised biography of Bruce Chatwin, The Dancer Upstairs (filmed by John Malkovich) and In Tasmania. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. view articles
	Nick Shaw	is The First Post's web developer. He has worked in digital media for over ten years. Having started out as a digital artist for multimedia and games companies in the early nineties, he now works in web development hand coding. view articles
	Jim Shelley	writes the Daily Mirror’s Shellyvision and a monthly column about cop shows for the Guardian Guide. view articles
	Catherine Shoard	writes film reviews and interviews for The Sunday Telegraph and book reviews for the Evening Standard. She lives in London.
	Alexandra Shulman	has edited Vogue for 16 years. She also writes a weekly column on style for the Daily Mail. She lives in London and occasionally leads a glamorous life. view articles
	Christopher Silvester	edits the diary for The Independent on Sunday and writes regular book reviews for The Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph. He is currently writing a social history of Hollywood for Random House
	Iain Simons	writes about videogames and tech-culture for New Statesman, Gamasutra and BBC Focus amongst others. His latest book, Inside Game Design, will be published this autumn by Laurence King. He lives in Nottingham. view articles
	Sarah Singer	is a former modern languages teacher. She is now studying for an MA in journalism at Brunel University. view articles
	Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal	is a columnist for the Evening Standard writing about race, sex and modern living. His first novel, Tourism, is about a second-generation Asian's progress through contemporary London.
	Jemima Sissons	is a freelance writer whose work appears in The Sunday Telegraph, The Spectator and The Daily Mail. view articles
	Peter Skelding	is the pseudonym of a freelance contributor based in the UK.
	Hannah Smith	graduated in 2006 with a degree in Politics and Modern History, and now works as a researcher on Channel 4’s Dispatches and as a freelance journalist. view articles
	Colin Smith	is based in Nicosia. He has covered wars and trouble spots for almost 30 years, mainly for The Observer. His books include Singapore Burning, an account of the campaign down the Malayan peninsula which ended in the Japanese capture of Singapore. www.colin-smith.info view articles
	Ed Smith	is a freelance journalist with extensive knowledge of the financial markets. After working overseas he is now based in the UK. view articles
	Michael Smith	writes on defence and intelligence issues for the Sunday Times. He was previously the Daily Telegraph's defence correspondent and has written a number of books on intelligence, including Station X. view articles
	ASH Smyth	is a freelance foreign affairs journalist. He also writes for the Social Affairs Unit and contributes to StopSmilingOnline, Music Teacher magazine and the Brussels Journal. He has an MA in Intelligence and International Security, and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. view articles
	Emma Soames	is Editor-at-Large of Saga Magazine. As a writer she specialises in subjects around the baby boomers of which she is one. She lives in London and the South of France. view articles
	Ravi Somaiya	writes on topics from ping-pong to politics for the Guardian among others. view articles
	Raj Somaiya	came to London in 1972 as a refugee from Idi Amin's Uganda. He now lives in Surrey, where he works as an accountant.
	Saskia Spender	lives in London. She was born and brought up in Tuscany. She is writing an Anglo-Tuscan culinary memoir.
	Paul Spike	has published five books, including Photographs of My Father, Last Rites and Night Letter, and written for many publications. He re-relaunched Punch and started the Pandora column in The Independent.
	The Spook	began her intelligence career armed with a raincoat and a revolver in Northern Ireland and subsequently served behind the green baize door in both the MOD and the Cabinet Office. view articles
	Adrian Spooner	is an education and management consultant, and author of the classical language awareness course Lingo (Bristol Classical Press).
	Rod Stanley	is the editor of Dazed & Confused. His work has also appeared in such publications as The Times, Face, SleazeNation, Record Collector, Muzik and Idler, and the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. view articles
	Elizabeth Starr	is a pseudonym for a novelist and writer living in Gloucestershire and London. She is divorced. view articles
	Edward Steen	is a freelance writer on European affairs. During the 1980s and up to the fall of Communism he was a staff correspondent and feature writer specialising in Eastern and Central Europe, working for The Daily and Sunday Telegraphs, then for the The Independent, where he was the founding Central and East European editor. view articles
	Olivia Stewart-Liberty	is a journalist who lives in London. Her novel Falling, about a man's search for his missing girlfriend, is published by Atlantic. view articles
	Angus Stickler	is a BBC journalist. He works for the Radio 4 Today Programme and File on 4 and reports occasionally for BBC2's Newsnight. He was named News Journalist of the Year at the Sony Radio Academy Awards in 2006. view articles
	Edward Stourton	is a presenter of BBC Radio 4's Today programme. He also fronts that station's religious and ethical news programme, Sunday. He has written four books about the Catholic church and more recently penned It's a PC World: What it Means to Live in a Land Gone Politically Correct. view articles
	Zoe Strimpel	is a journalist based in London. She writes on life, food, health, women and relationships for The Times, Financial Times and Time Out. She is the Girl About Town dating columnist for thelondonpaper.
	Dan Strong	is a journalist and columnist for Auto Express magazine, who contributes to Evo, Octane and the Daily Telegraph. Based in London, he has also worked for Classic Cars and Performance Car. view articles
	Euan Stuart	worked as a stockbroker before leaving to look after his daughter and write for MoneyWeek magazine. Since then he has contributed to the FT and The Week, among others. He writes a blog. view articles
	Sejal Sukhadwala	is a food writer and restaurant critic. She writes for Time Out London magazine, Time Out Eating & Drinking Guide, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Independent, Caterer & Hotelkeeper, and www.bbc.co.uk/food and www.productsifter.com websites. She’s writing a book on Indian regional cookery and is a frequent visitor to Mumbai.
	Alex Sumner	video producer, has worked as a director and producer for several television channels. She also ran a BBC department dedicated to producing programmes for BBC Choice and collaborated with MIT’s Media Lab to develop new technology for BBC programme makers before joining 3’s launch team to produce editorial content for mobile phones.
	Henry Sutton	has published many novels, including the critically acclaimed Gorleston. He also reviews for Esquire and the Daily Mirror. view articles
T	Sophie Taylor	has worked mainly for magazines. She is particularly interested in emerging underground music and the lifestyles of the rich and the famous. She lives in Brixton with her cat, Dogbat. view articles
	Jason Taylor	is the creator of the world’s first underwater sculpture park in Grenada. He has exhibited in London and Plymouth, and is currently working on a new underwater sculpture in Italy. He studied at Camberwell College, London. www.underwatersculpture.com
	Laura Tennant	is the editor of The London Magazine. view articles
	Tom Teodorczuk	is arts correspondent at the Evening Standard. view articles
	Sean Thomas	is the author of three novels: Absent Fathers, Kissing England and The Cheek Perforation Dance. His most recent book, Millions of Women are Waiting to Meet You - a memoir of his chequered lovelife - is published by Bloomsbury Books. view articles
	Christopher Thompson	is an Africa specialist based in London. He has travelled and reported widely on the continent, writing for The Independent, The Guardian and London Review of Books among others. Most recently, he was Southern Africa stringer for Reuters. view articles
	Damian Thompson	is editor-in-chief of the Catholic Herald. He is also a leader writer, interviewer and occasional TV critic for The Daily Telegraph. His sociological study of apocalyptic religion, Waiting for Antichrist, is published by OUP.
	Chris Thomson	worked as a lawyer and economist before becoming director of the Intelligence Consultancy and the School of Consciousness. view articles
	Mario Tilney-Bassett	is the director of online marketing for The First Post. He publicised the Microsoft and Orange brands before moving into digital marketing for Buena Vista International, Disney and 20th Century Fox. He was European Marketing Manager for sportal.com and also worked in Australia for Mediacom. view articles
	Mat Toor	has worked as a journalist on a raft of publications including the Financial Times, Marketing, What HiFi, the Guardian and the music magazine Q. More recently he has evolved into a web monkey and launched a variety of websites for Dennis Publishing including Know Your Mobile, Den of Geek and London is Free. view articles
	Charles Townshend	Professor of International History, Keele University; former Fellow of the National Humanities Center and the Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington DC; editor of the Oxford History of Modern War and author of Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction. view articles
	Alwyn W Turner	is the author of Crisis? What Crisis? Britain in the 1970s, published by Aurum Press. Previous books include The Biba Experience, Cult Rock Posters 1972-1982 and Portmeirion. view articles
	Robert Twigger	is the author of Angry White Pyjamas, a book about the year he spent training in martial arts in Japan, for which he won the Somerset Maugham award and the William Hill Sportsbook of the Year. He has also written about his three-year canoeing expedition across Canada, and a trip to find the world's largest snake in Indonesia. He has published several collections of poetry, including one with Doris Lessing. His new novel, Dr Ragab's Universal Language, is set in the seamy world of 1920s Cairo. More of his writing is at roberttwigger.com view articles
U	Harry Underwood	is a London-based journalist. He has previously worked at News Review, a weekly in Santiago, and taught literature and history in Argentina. view articles
V	Ted Vallance	is a lecturer in history at the University of Liverpool and the author of The Glorious Revolution: Britain’s Fight for Liberty (Little, Brown and Co, 2006). He is currently writing a radical history of England from Magna Carta to the present day. view articles
	Martin Vander Weyer	is business editor of The Spectator and former City editor of The Week. A former investment banker, he is also a regular contributor to The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph, and other national newspapers and magazines. view articles
	Chloe Veltman	is a San Francisco-based writer. Her articles have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Financial Times, The Guardian and Conde Nast Traveller. She is the chief theatre critic of SF Weekly. Her first book, On Acting, is published by Faber. view articles
	Polly Vernon	is a writer and editor for The Observer and a contributing editor for Grazia. She divides her time between celebrity interviewing and style writing. She reviews cocktail bars occasionally. view articles
	Steve Villiers	design consultant, is the creative director of Wheelhouse Creative www.wheelhousecreative.co.uk, an award winning new media and advertising agency.
	T.K. Vogel	is an editor with the online newsweekly Transitions Online www.tol.org, where he covers south-eastern Europe. He has written for The Wall Street Journal Europe, International Herald Tribune, and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
W	John Waite	has presented BBC Radio 4's Face the Facts since 1986. His programme has helped bring about changes in the law on asbestos, illegal puppy farming and carbon monoxide poisoning. He won a Foreign Press Association Award for his investigation into the plight of Iraqi interpreters who worked for British forces. view articles
	Paul Waldie	is a business writer and broadcaster at the Globe and Mail, Toronto, for whom he covered the 2007 Conrad Black fraud trial in Chicago. view articles
	Christopher Walker	is a former Middle East, Moscow and Ireland correspondent for the Times. Now based in London, he is a foreign affairs commentator for Sky News and Al Jazeera English, and London correspondent of Global Radio News. He writes regular Middle East commentaries for the emerging markets wire, Noozz.Com. view articles
	Shaun Walker	is Moscow Correspondent for the Independent, and Contributing Editor for Monocle magazine. view articles
	Alexander Walsh	lives and works in London as a writer and researcher.
	Qingsong Wang	born in 1966, in China, he trained as a painter in Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. His photography explores the economic and cultural changes that have swept China in the past decade.
	John Ward	is the author of Not Born Yesterday, who spent 35 years in advertising before leaving to write full-time about marketing and social policy. He has written two books on advertising planning, and lives in Devon. view articles
	Mike Wendling	is a BBC radio journalist and former editor of the Penny newspaper. He has written for numerous publications and blogs at climateculturechange.blogspot.com. view articles
	Julian West	has reported from Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Sri Lanka, Iran and Nepal for both the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph. Based in New Delhi, she is also the author of a novel, Serpent in Paradise, set during the troubles in Sri Lanka. view articles
	Letty Wheeler	has lived in Gloucestershire for ten years, since growing too old for Fulham. This is her first foray into journalism. view articles
	Peter Wilby	is a former editor of The Independent on Sunday and the New Statesman. He is now a columnist for The Guardian, the New Statesman and the Times Educational Supplement, writing about the media, public policy and education. He also contributes to the Observer Sports Monthly on cricket and rugby union. view articles
	Zoe Williams	is a columnist for The Guardian and writes for the New Statesman. She also analyses celebrity hair for Now Magazine. She lives in south London. view articles
	Bob Willingham	is the editor of The World Of Judo magazine and the official photographer of the International Judo Federation. He lives in Bristol and is currently completing a PhD on the psychology of Olympic medal winners. For thirty years he has also worked as a nightclub doorman. view articles
	Tim Willis	has worked for most of Britain's national papers and some of its glossier magazines. He has written two books: Madcap: The Half-life of Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd's Lost Genius; and Torn Apart – True Stories of Excluded Fathers. view articles
	James Woodall	is based in Berlin. His books include biographies of Jorge Luis Borges, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono. He also writes on the arts for The Economist. view articles
	Sarah Woodward	was a management consultant at Bain and Co and a fundraiser for Cambridge University until 1991 when she won The Independent Cook of the Year award and became a writer on food, wine and travel. A regular contributor to the FT Weekend and Condé Nast Traveller, she is now the author of five books, including Tastes of North Africa and The Ottoman Kitchen. Her sixth, The Food of France - a regional celebration, was published in 2006. view articles
	World Leaders Team	Jeff Tawney, who created the format, has a background in video games development. Executive Producer Kim Fuller is best known for his work as a writer on the hit TV series, Spitting Image. Marc Bennet, a caricaturist and illustrator, is the series’ creative director. He was formerly in the advertising industry. Andy Hobsbawm, a pioneer of the early internet age, who ensures that all the elements of World Leaders come together online, has written for the Financial Times. view articles
	Peregrine Worsthorne	was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge and Magdalen, Oxford. He saw active service during the Second World War. He was a leader writer and foreign correspondent on The Times 1948-53, The Daily Telegraph 1953-1961 and from 1961-1985 on the The Sunday Telegraph; and was editor of The Sunday Telegraph 1985-1991. He is the author of The Socialist Myth, 1972, Tricks of Memory, 1993 and Democracy needs Aristocracy, 2004. He was given a Knighthood in 1991 on the recommendation of Mrs Thatcher. view articles
Y	Peter York	is a management consultant, broadcaster and writer on style and social behaviour. He is the author of The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook (co-authored with Ann Barr, 1982), Dictators' Homes (2005) and Cooler, Faster, More Expensive: The Return of the Sloane Ranger (co-authored with Olivia Stewart-Liberty, 2007) view articles
Z	Adam Zamoyski	is a London-based historian and occasional journalist, whose most recent books include 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow and Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna. His latest book, Warsaw 1920: Lenin's Failed Conquest of Europe, will be published in March. view articles
	Gibby Zobel	is a writer and filmmaker who spends his time in London and Brazil. He is a regular contributor to the BBC world service and Al Jazeera's English language website. He was news editor of The Big Issue from 1998 to 2002 and co-founded the weekly SchNEWS in 1994. view articles