Speakers
- Greg Clark MP (Conservative, Tunbridge Wells)
- Peter Hitchens (Mail on Sunday, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism 2007)
- Will Hutton (The Observer, The Work Foundation)
- Denis MacShane MP (Labour, Rotherham)
- Matthew Parris (The Times, winner of the Orwell Prize for Journalism 2005)
- Jean Seaton (director of the Orwell Prize)
- Chaired by Sean Maguire (editor of political and general news, Reuters)
Details
This year’s Orwell Prize shortlists – of 7 books, 6 journalists and 6 bloggers – were announced at Thomson Reuters, before a debate, ‘Has the Left stopped thinking?’, about the future of the Left.
Links
- Orwell Prize 2008: Shortlists
- Orwell Prize 2008: Longlists
- Winner of the Orwell Prize for Journalism 2010: Peter Hitchens
- Winner of the Orwell Prize for Journalism 2005: Matthew Parris
- Shortlist 2011: Is it time to make monarchy history? (video)
- Shortlist 2010: Has the political class been fatally weakened? (video)
- Shortlist 2009: Are political parties bankrupt? (video)