Alain is former News Editor of the Financial Times, Asia Editor and Middle East correspondent. He is currently a Fellow of the Centre for Welfare Reform
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Duncan Simpson
Duncan Simpson is the research director of the TaxPayers' Alliance, a campaign group which supports lower taxes, more government transparency and an end to wasteful government spending. Duncan h...
David Alton
Lord David Alton is a former Liberal Party and later Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament who has sat as a crossbench member of the House of Lords since 1997 when he was made a life peer.
Jay Elwes
Commissioning Editor, TheArticle
Jay Elwes, a writer and novelist, is former acting editor of Prospect magazine.
Fitzroy Morrissey
Dr Fitzroy Morrissey is a Fellow of All Souls. He is currently writing A Short History of Islamic Thought.
Crawford Gribben
Professor Gribben is a cultural and literary historian at Queen's University Belfast. He is the co-editor of two series of monographs and edited collections entitled 'Christianities in the trans-At...
Richard Dowden
Richard Dowden is a journalist who has been writing on Africa since the 1970s for many newspapers, including the Guardian and the Times. His most recent book is Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Mir...
Ali Miraj
Columnist, TheArticle
Ali Miraj is a broadcaster, social entrepreneur, DJ and financier. He comments widely on domestic political and international affairs, presents shows on LBC and regularly appears on Sky News. He fo...
Paul T Horgan
Paul T Horgan worked in the information technology and communications sector during the ascendancy of the Personal Computer. He is currently researching for a monograph on the 1938 Munich Crisis.
Daniel Johnson
Editor, TheArticle
Daniel Johnson is the founding Editor of TheArticle. For two decades he was a senior editor, editorial writer and columnist for The Times and the Daily Telegraph, before leaving to set up Standpoin...
Alexander Woolfson
Defence & Security Editor, TheArticle
Alexander Woolfson is a defence and security analyst and journalist. He lectures and teachers on irregular warfare and the politics of NATO. He is an associate fellow of the Royal United Services I...
Rebecca Fraser
Rebecca Fraser is a writer and broadcaster. Formerly the President of the Bronte Society, her first book was a biography of Charlotte Bronte (Vintage paperback). Her most recent is The Mayflower Ge...
Violet Hudson
Violet is a freelance journalist and writer living in London and has written for the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator among others.
Michel Gurfinkiel
Michel Gurfinkiel is a French journalist and public intellectual. He has been editor-in-chief or editorial board member of several leading French journals and is the founder of the Jean-Jacques Rou...
Charlotte Gill
Charlotte Gill is freelance journalist. She has written for the Mail on Sunday, the Independent, the Times, the Telegraph, Prospect, and the Spectator.
Stephen Rand
CEO & Founder of TheArticle
Stephen has had 15 years' experience in the publishing world. He started off in the advertising business but quickly moved publisher-side with roles at The Spectator, Telegraph Media Group and Dow...
Michael Pinto-Duschinsky
Michael Pinto-Duschinsky was senior consultant on constitutional affairs to Policy Exchange from 2012-2015. He was a member of the UK Commission on a Bill of Rights and consultant to the Committee ...
Catherine Brown
Dr Catherine Brown is Head of Faculty and a Senior Lecturer in English at New College of the Humanities. She studied English at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Daniel Pryor
Daniel Pryor is Head of Programmes at the Adam Smith Institute. He has written for The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Times, CapX, The Washington Examiner, Spiked, CityMetric and more.
Gabriel Gavin
Gabriel Gavin is a Conservative Party activist, school governor and former local government candidate.
