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David Allen Green is a writer, lawyer and head of media at City law firm Preiskel & Co. His blog, Jack of Kent, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Blogs in 2010 and longlisted for the same prize in 2012. David regularly writes for the New Statesman, and has been published in The Guardian, The Lawyer and New Scientist. He sits on the advisory council for Sense About Science and the editorial advisory board for The Skeptic magazine.