Posted on November 23, 2022 by Eric Blair -
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is an award-winning journalist who has written for the The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Evening Standard, and The Mail among others and was a weekly columnist on The Independent for eighteen years. She is now a weekly columnist for I news and was shortlisted in this year’s Society of Editor’s columnist of the year award. She was the first regular columnist of colour on a national newspaper in the UK and the first female Muslim. She campaigns against forced marriages, female genital mutilation and for the rights of women and girls around the world. She has authored several books. The most recent one is Ladies Who Punch – fifty stories of incredibly women, past and present. In 2001 she was awarded an MBE for services to journalism, a medal she returned two years later, as a protest against the war in Iraq. Yasmin won The Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2002.
Posted on November 21, 2022 by Eric Blair -
Tomiwa Owolade is a contributing writer at the New Statesman. He has also written for the Times and the Sunday Times. He is the author of the forthcoming book This is Not America.
Posted on November 21, 2022 by Eric Blair -
Julia Jordan is Associate Professor of 20th Century English Literature at UCL, where she teaches modern and contemporary literature. She has edited the work of B. S. Johnson, and has published two books and several essays, mostly about experimental literature and late modernist fiction. She is currently working on a new project, which largely about trees and what happens to the pastoral mode in twentieth-century literature.
Posted on November 21, 2022 by Eric Blair -
Boyd Tonkin is a journalist, editor and writer who was awarded the Royal Society of Literature’s Benson Medal in 2020 for outstanding service to literature over the course of a career. He currently writes on books and arts for international media including The Economist, The Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Times Literary Supplement and UnHerd, and was formerly Literary Editor and Senior Writer at The Independent. He chaired the Man Booker International Prize 2016 and then served as the prize’s Special Adviser. His reader’s guide to global fiction, The 100 Best Novels in Translation, is published by Galileo.
Posted on November 21, 2022 by Eric Blair -
Alison Flood is comment and culture editor at the New Scientist. She is also the Observer’s thriller reviewer, and reads far too much science fiction and crime. She has judged book awards including the McIlvanney prize for the best Scottish crime novel of the year, and the British Book Awards.
Posted on November 21, 2022 by Eric Blair -
Sukhdev Sandhu directs the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture at New York University, runs the Texte und Töne publishing imprint, and is the author of London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined A City, Night Haunts, and Other Musics.
Posted on November 21, 2022 by Eric Blair -
Cristina Odone is an Italian-British journalist, editor, and freelance writer. Cristina is the founder of the Parenting Circle Charity, and was the former Editor of the Catholic Herald, Contributor to The Telegraph, and Deputy Editor of the New Statesman.
Posted on November 21, 2022 by Eric Blair -
Martha Lane Fox (CBE) is the President of the British Chambers of Commerce, Chancellor of the Open University and Chair of WeTransfer. She is a Patron of AbilityNet, Reprieve, Camfed and Just for Kids Law. From 2009 to 2013 she was Digital Champion for the UK and helped to create the Government Digital Service. She became a crossbench peer in the UK House of Lords in March 2013.
Posted on November 21, 2022 by Eric Blair -
Kojo Koram is a writer and an academic, teaching at the School of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London. Born in Accra, Ghana and raised on Merseyside, he is now based in London. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in November 2011. In addition to his academic writing, he has written for the New Statesman, the Guardian, Dissent, The Nation, and The Washington Post and has appeared on CNN and Sky News. He is the editor of The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line (Pluto Press 2019) and author of Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire (John Murray 2022).
Posted on November 21, 2022 by Eric Blair -
Alice Bell heads up climate policy at the Wellcome Trust, which she recently joined after seven years at the climate action charity, Possible. She previously worked as a writer and academic, specialising in the politics of science and technology, and is the author of Our Biggest Experiment, a history of the climate crisis.
Posted on November 21, 2022 by Eric Blair -
Lindsey Hilsum is Channel 4 News’ International Editor. In recent years she has covered conflict in Ukraine, Afghanistan and Syria and Covid in Brazil. She is the author of In Extremis; the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin, which won the 2019 James Tait Black Prize for Biography.
Posted on November 21, 2022 by Eric Blair -
Kurt Barling is Professor of Journalism at Middlesex University London and University Theme Director for Inclusive Social-economic Development and Enriching Lives through Culture. He is an award-winning BBC Journalist and film-maker and regularly broadcasts on cultural issues.
Posted on November 21, 2022 by Eric Blair -
Katy Balls is the Spectator‘s political editor and a columnist for the paper. She hosts the Women with Balls podcast – which interviews females leading the way in their field – and is a regular contributor of the Spectator’s daily politics podcast Coffee House Shots. She was shortlisted for comment journalism of the year at the 2021 British Journalism Awards and for political commentator of the year at the 2017 Press Awards. Her work has featured in publications which include the Guardian, New York Times and Tatler. She is a regular on broadcast with appearances on Radio 4, Newsnight, the Andrew Marr Show and Have I Got News For You.
Posted on November 21, 2022 by Eric Blair -
Ed Thomas is a Special Correspondent for BBC News. His work mainly appears on the BBC’s flagship Ten o’clock news bulletin, iPlayer and online. His reporting inside Wandsworth Prison and the inequality exposed by Covid in Burnley both won Royal Television Society awards. He also won The Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils in 2022. His work often focuses on social injustice and institutional failure.
Posted on May 11, 2022 by Eric Blair -
Annabel Deas is an investigative journalist at BBC Radio 4 based in Salford. In 2018 she was awarded funding by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust to travel to the US to research best practice for telling the stories of marginalised people. She won The Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils 2021 for her BBC Radio 5 Live seven-part podcast series, ‘Hope High’.
Posted on May 11, 2022 by Eric Blair -
As Director of Partners for a New Economy, Jo leads a grant-making fund seeking to catalyse transformational change in our economy so that nature and all people can flourish. She is also a Visiting Professor at Cranfield University and the author of Equal Power: Gender Equality and How to Achieve It (Atlantic Books, 2018). Jo was previously an MP, Business Minister and Leader of the Liberal Democrats.
Posted on May 11, 2022 by Eric Blair -
Kirsty McNeill is Save the Children’s Executive Director for Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns. Previously, she founded a consultancy advising some of the world’s leading social purpose organisations and spent three years as a Special Adviser in Number 10. She chairs Larger Us, the Civic Power Fund and the Aid Alliance and is on the boards of the Holocaust Educational Trust, the Coalition for Global Prosperity, IPPR, and the Center for Countering Digital Hate. She tweets at @kirstyjmcneill.
Posted on May 11, 2022 by Eric Blair -
Sophia is a multi-award winning campaigner and currently the Head of Advocacy and Communications at the anti-poverty organisation Little Village. Sophia’s specialism is Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, which is threaded into her work in various sectors over the past 10 years. Sophia has a background in investigative journalism, research and participation, which she uses to build public will and tackle inequalities.