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Elliott Abrams is a senior fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington DC. He was Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser under Geoge W. Bush. Read more

John Adamson

John Adamson is a Fellow of Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Noble Revolt: the Overthrow of Charles I.

Houriya Ahmed

Houriya Ahmed is a research fellow at the Centre for Social Cohesion and co-author of Hizb ut-Tahrir: Ideology and Strategy. Read more

Robin Aitken

Robin Aitken is a former BBC journalist and published Can We Trust the BBC? after more than 25 years of service.

Edward Alexander

Edward Alexander is emeritus professor of English at University of Washington in Seattle. His most recent book (co-edited with Paul Bogdanor) is The Jewish Divide Over Israel: Accusers and Defenders.

Brian Allen

Brian Allen is Director of Studies at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London. Read more

Ellen Alpsten

Ellen Alpsten was born and grew up in Kenya. After working as a producer and a presenter on Bloomberg TV, she is now a full-time writer.

Louis Amis

Louis Amis is a writer-at-large for Standpoint

Topaz Amoore

Topaz Amoore is a former foreign editor of the Daily Telegraph. She lives in Rome.

Digby Anderson

Digby Anderson is the founder director of the Social Affairs Unit. His most recent book is The English at Table (Social Affairs Unit). Read more

Hephzibah Anderson

Hephzibah Anderson contributes regularly to the Observer and the Daily Mail in the UK, and writes a column on sex and the media for Adweek in the US. She is the author of a memoir, Chastened (Vintage).

Anna Aslanyan

Anna Aslanyan is a translator and journalist. She contributes to 3:AM magazine and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Read more

Francisco J. Ayala

Francisco J. Ayala is an evolutionary geneticist and molecular biologist and the recipient of the 2010 Templeton Prize. Read more

Gerard Baker

Gerard Baker is US editor and an assistant editor at the Times. He writes from Washington about America politics, economics and society for the Times as well as for a number of other publications.

Shmuel Bar

Shmuel Bar is Director of Studies at the Institute of Policy and Strategy in Herzlia, Israel, and an adjunct Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, New York. He is the author of Warrant for Terror. Read more

Jeremy Hugh Baron

Jeremy Hugh Baron trained as a physician and scientist in Oxford, London and New York, and has honorary posts in the medical schools of Imperial College and Mount Sinai. His latest book is Anglo-American Biomedical Antecedents of Nazi Crimes. Read more

David Barrett

David Barrett is an Australian writer and a former journalist at the Daily Telegraph in Sydney. He lives in London.

John D. Barrow

John D Barrow FRS is Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge University, Gresham Professor of Geometry, and the author of The Book of Universes, which has just been published by Bodley Head, London.

Jonathan Bate

Jonathan Bate is a critic, biographer, Shakespeare scholar and professor at the University of Warwick.

Bruce Bawer

Bruce Bawer is an American writer, poet and critic who lives in Norway. He is the author of several books, including While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from Within.

Alan Bekhor

Alan Bekhor runs British Marine plc, a UK-based shipping group. A founding supporter of Standpoint, he has given papers on philosophy and theology at the Forum for European Philosophy and other societies.

Daniel Beresford

Daniel Beresford is a graduate of Oxford Brookes University.

Katherine Bergen

Katherine Bergen is a freelance writer on politics and culture. Read more

Claire Berlinski

Claire Berlinski is an Istanbul-based American freelance journalist and novelist. She is author of Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis is America's, Too and There is no Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters (Basic Books).

John Bew

John Bew is Lecturer in War Studies at King's College London and Co-Director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence. He is author of Castlereagh: Enlightenment, War and Tyranny (Quercus).

Nigel Biggar and Peter Singer

Nigel Biggar is Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology and Director of the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics and Public Life at the University of Oxford. Peter Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor for the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne.

Nigel Biggar

Nigel Biggar is Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Oxford, a member of the Royal College of Physicians' Committee on Ethical Issues in Medicine, and author of Aiming to Kill: The Ethics of Suicide and Euthanasia. Read more

Julie Bindel

Julie Bindel is a journalist and feminist campaigner. She is co-editor of The Map of My Life: The Story of Emma Humphreys. Read more

Katharine Birbalsingh

Katharine Birbalsingh left her job as deputy head of a London academy school after speaking at the Conservative Party Conference October 2010. She is now setting up a free school, Michaela Community School in south London. Her most recent book is To Miss with Love (Penguin).

Conrad Black

Conrad Black is an author, columnist, and investor. He is the author of Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Champion of Freedom.

Jeremy Black

Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is the author of many books, including The Curse of History and Geopolitics. Read more

Georgina Blackwell

Georgina Blackwell is a graduate of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford.

Geoffrey Blainey

Professor Geoffrey Blainey, Australia's most eminent living historian, is the author of many books, including A Short History of the World and A Short History of the Twentieth Century (Penguin). Read more

Tim Blanning

Tim Blanning is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of many books, including The Triumph of Music in the Modern World.

Tim Blanning and Jonathan Bate

Tim Blanning is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His most recent book is The Romantic Revolution (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). Jonathan Bate is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at Warwick. He was recently elected Provost of Worcester College, Oxford. Read more

Hazel Blears

Hazel Blears is the Labour MP for Salford, and Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.

Peter Blegvad

Peter Blegvad is a writer, musician and cartoonist. He teaches Creative Writing at Wawick University. Read more

Jerald Block

Jerald J. Block is a psychiatrist in a private practice in Portland, Oregon. He teaches at Oregon Health & Science where he is a pioneer in the field of Pathological Computer Use and has also written on school shootings.

Philip Bobbitt and Michael Gove

The presidential adviser and author of Terror and Consent, Philip Bobbitt, shares his ideas on the war on terror in a Standpoint dialogue with Conservative politician and author of Celsius 7/7, Michael Gove.

Nick Boles and Daniel Hannan

Nick Boles is the Conservative MP for Grantham and Stamford and was previously the Director of the Policy Exchange think-tank. His new book Which Way's Up? is published by Biteback. Daniel Hannan is a Conservative MEP for South East England. Last year, he was awarded the Bastiat Award for online journalism. His latest book is The New Road to Serfdom: A Letter of Warning to America (HarperCollins). Read more

John Bolton

John R. Bolton is the former US ambassador to the United Nations. He is now senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of Surrender is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations.

Christopher Booker

Christopher Booker is a Sunday Telegraph columnist and author of several books on contemporary history, including The Real Global Warming Disaster (Continuum).

Philip Booth

Philip Booth is Editorial and Programme Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs and editor of Pension Provision: Government Failure Around the World. He is Professor of Insurance and Risk Management at Cass Business School.

Ian Bostridge

Ian Bostridge is one of the world's most celebrated operatic and concert tenors. An honorary fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he is the author of Witchcraft and its Transformations. He is on the Advisory Board of Standpoint.

Ian Bostridge and Tim Blanning

The tenor Ian Bostridge and the historian Tim Blanning discuss popular and classical music with Standpoint editor Daniel Johnson.

Joseph Bottum

Joseph Bottum is a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard and a former editor of First Things.

Bruce Boucher

Bruce Boucher is the author of Andrea Palladio: The Architect in His Time. He was a professor of the history of art for many years at University College London and is director of the art museum of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Sir Anthony Brenton

Anthony Brenton was British Ambassador in Russia 2004 - 2008. He is now an Extraordinary Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. Read more

Sidney Brichto

Sidney Brichto was a British rabbi, and Senior Vice-President of the Liberal Jewish Movement. He published a series of new translations of what was called the People's Bible, and is the author of Funny,You Don't Look Jewish...

Samuel Brittan and Edward Hadas

Samuel Brittan and Edward Hadas, both distinguished economic commentators, discuss where to place the blame for the current global crisis with Standpoint editor Daniel Johnson.

Craig Brown

Craig Brown is one of Britain's leading satirists. He writes columns for the Daily Telegraph and Private Eye and is chief book reviewer for the Mail on Sunday. His books include The Tony Years and The Marsh-Marlowe Letters.

Alan Brownjohn

Alan Brownjohn is a poet and novelist. He has edited poetry collections with Seamus Heaney and Maureen Duffy. His latest novel is Windows on the Moon (Black Spring). Read more

Michael Buerk

Michael Buerk is a journalist and broadcaster. He presented The Ten O'Clock News for many years and currently chairs BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze. He is the author of The Road Taken (Random House).

Julie Burchill

Julie Burchill is a writer and columnist, and a Christian Zionist. She is the author of Not in My Name: A compendium of Modern Hypocrisy, written with Chas Newkey-Burden, and Made in Brighton (Virgin Books), co-written by Daniel Raven.

Michael Burleigh

Michael Burleigh is a historian and the author of 10 books. These include The Third Reich: a New History, Earthly Powers, Sacred Causes and Blood & Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism. He is on the Advisory Board of Standpoint.

Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell is a senior editor at the Weekly Standard and a columnist for the Financial Times. His book Reflections on the Revolution in Europe was published by Doubleday in 2009. Read more

Matthew Carr

Matthew Carr (1953-2011) was a figurative artist. A memorial exhibition was recently held at Marlborough Fine Art. Read more

David Cesarani

David Cesarani is Research Professor in History at Royal Holloway, University of London. His latest book is Major Farran's Hat. Murder, Scandal and Britain's War against Jewish Terrorism, 1945-1948.

Lesley Chamberlain

Lesley Chamberlain is a journalist, travel writer, and historian of Russian and German culture. She is the author of The Philosophy Steamer: Lenin and the Exile of the Intelligentsia.

Alexander Chancellor

Alexander Chancellor is a Guardian columnist. He was formerly Editor of the Spectator, and spent a year working as an editor at The New Yorker.

Robert Chandler

Robert Chandler is a poet and translator of the works of Vasily Grossman and Andrey Platanov.

Jessie Childs

Jessie Childs is a biographer and historian, and the author of Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.

James Clasper

James Clasper is a former New York City lawyer, and is now a freelance writer and editor based in London. He has written for the Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, and the Liberal.

Alice Cockerell

Alice Cockerell is a freelance journalist.

Michael Cockerell

Michael Cockerell is a political documentary-maker. His most recent film for the BBC was The Secret World of Whitehall. Read more

Nick Cohen

Nick Cohen is a columnist for the Observer and author of You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom (Fourth Estate).

Richard Cohen

Richard Cohen is an author and book editor, and a visiting professor of Creative Writing at Kingston University. His book Chasing The Sun is published by Simon and Schuster. Read more

Bruce Cole

Bruce Cole, a former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC. Read more

Paul Collier

Paul Collier is Professor of Economics at Oxford University. His latest book, The Plundered Planet: How to Reconcile Prosperity with Nature, was published in 2010 by Allen Lane. Read more

Tim Congdon

Tim Congdon is an economist. He is a former adviser to the Treasury, and the founder of Lombard Street Research. His latest book is Money in a Free Society (Fourth Estate).

Robert Conquest

Robert Conquest is a historian, poet and political philosopher. He was described at the final plenum of the Soviet Communist Party as ‘anti-Sovietchik No. 1', and is the author of the classic work The Great Terror.

John Constable

John Constable is the Director of Policy and Research for the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF), a charity publishing data and analysis on the UK energy sector.

David Conway

David Conway teaches philosophy at the University of Essex.

John Cottingham

John Cottingham is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Reading and an Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. His recent books include On the Meaning of Life, The Spiritual Dimension and Cartesian Reflections.

Con Coughlin

Con Coughlin is the Daily Telegraph's executive foreign editor. He is an expert on the Middle East and Islamic terrorism, and the author of Khomeini's Ghost: The Iranian Revolution and the Rise of Militant Islam.

Hugh Curtiss

Hugh Curtiss was a monk for several years in the 1960s and '70s before leaving to be a farm labourer. He is now a spiritual and business consultant.

Dinesh D'Souza

Dinesh D'Souza, the President of the King's College in New York City, is the author of The Roots of Obama's Rage (Regnery). Read more

Anthony Daniels

Anthony Daniels worked for many years as a prison doctor. His books, as Theodore Dalrymple, include In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas.

Anthony Daniels and Christopher Edwards

The author Anthony Daniels and the antiquarian bookseller Christopher Edwards write about the joys of browsing second-hand bookshops, and what life is like selling antiquarian books.

Max Davidson

Max Davidson is a critic, novelist and travel writer. He writes mainly for the Daily Telegraph and has been, at various times, a TV critic, restaurant critic and parliamentary sketch-writer.

Christie Davies

Dr Christie Davies is the author of The Mirth of Nations, co-author of Esuniku Joku and author of the academic study of humour, Jokes and Targets. He also wrote the collection of humorous magical science fiction stories Dewi the Dragon.

Jan Davies

Jan Davies is the author of The Criminal Advocate's Survival Guide.

Francis Davis

Francis Davis is a Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, and has advised the Labour and Coalition governments. Read more

Tamasin Day-Lewis

Tamasin Day-Lewis writes a weekly food column for the Daily Telegraph. Her latest book is a memoir, Where Shall We Go For Dinner? Read more

Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton is a writer and philosopher. He is the author of A Song for Occupations, The Architecture of Happiness, and How Proust Can Change your Life. He wrote a monthly column, Utopia, for Standpoint until the end of 2008.

Leon de Winter

Leon de Winter is a novelist and columnist for De Telegraaf and Elsevier Magazine in The Netherlands. His most recent novel, The Right of Return, is set in Tel Aviv in 2024. Read more

Midge Decter

Midge Decter's work has appeared in numerous magazines, among them Commentary and National Review. She is the author of several books, the most recent of which is Rumsfeld, A Personal Portrait.

James Delingpole

James Delingpole is the author of How To Be Right and Coward On The Beach. He writes for the Times, the Daily Telegraph, and the Spectator.

Mara Delius

Mara Delius writes for the culture section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. She has a doctorate in German Literature from King's College, London.

Jessica Douglas-Home

Jessica Douglas-Home is an author and artist. Her third book, Glimpse of Empire (Michael Russell), is out now in hardback. Read more

Jessica Duchen

Jessica Duchen is a music journalist and the author of four novels, two biographies and several stage works. She writes regularly for The Independent and BBC Music Magazine. Her latest novel, Songs of Triumphant Love, is published by Hodder.

Ruth Dudley Edwards

Ruth Dudley Edwards is an historian, crime-writer and journalist. Her most recent book is Aftermath: the Omagh Bombing and the Families' Pursuit of Justice. Read more

Myron Ebell

Myron Ebell is Director of Global Warming and International Environmental Policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and Chairman of the Cooler Heads Coalition, which aims to dispel myths about global warming.

Christopher Edwards

Christopher Edwards is an antiquarian bookseller living in Oxfordshire.

David Ekserdjian

David Ekserdjian is Professor of History of Art and Film at the University of Leicester, and is a Trustee of the National Gallery and of Tate.

James Elliott

James Elliott is an anglo-american writer.

Joseph Epstein

Joseph Epstein's new book, Gossip, The Untrivial Pursuit, is published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Richard Eyre

Richard Eyre was director of the National Theatre from 1987 to1997. His films include The Ploughman's Lunch, Iris, Stage Beauty, Notes on a Scandal and The Other Man.

Mark Falcoff

Mark Falcoff is a policy consultant and expert on Latin American affairs. He is resident scholar emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute.

Saba Farzan

Saba Farzan writes on Iran for European newspapers and the Wall Street Journal. Read more

Stephen Fay

Stephen Fay is a writer on cricket and a former editor of Wisden Cricket Monthly.

Shehryar Fazli

Shehryar Fazli is a Pakistan-based political analyst and author. His novel, Invitation, was a bestseller in India and Pakistan. Read more

Nicholas Fearn

Nicholas Fearn writes for the Spectator, the New Statesman, the Independent on Sunday, and the Financial Times. He is the author of Philosophy: The Latest Answers to the Oldest Questions.

Father Dermot Fenlon

Father Dermot Fenlon, the author of Heresy and Obedience in Tridentine Italy: Cardinal Pole and the Counter-Reformation, has published extensively on 16th-century Italian religious history. He is finishing a volume of essays on Cardinal Newman. Read more

Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, and his books include Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, and The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World.

Frank Field

Frank Field has been Labour MP for Birkenhead for thirty years. He has published a pamphlet with Civitas called Welfare Titans, and is on the Advisory Board of Standpoint.

Christopher Fildes

Christopher Fildes is a financial journalist and former Spectator columnist.

Tibor Fischer

Tibor Fischer is a British novelist and short story writer. His latest work of fiction, Crushed Mexican Spiders (Unbound).

Focus on Islamism

Focus on Islamism is a blog dedicated to analysing and exposing the modern ideological phenomenon known as Islamism.

Shiraz Maher is a writer and broadcaster.

Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens is a PhD student at King's College, London. He has contributed to various online and printed publications including, The Daily Telegraph, Lebanon's Daily Star, Standpoint and NOWLebanon.

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Jonathan Foreman

Jonathan Foreman is an Anglo-American journalist and film critic. He was film critic for the New York Post and has written for, among many, The New Yorker, The National Review, and the Daily Telegraph. He is Standpoint's Writer-at-Large.

Roy Foster

Roy Foster is Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Hertford College. He is the author of Luck and the Irish: a brief history of change 1970-2000.

Robert Fox

Robert Fox is the defence correspondent of the London Evening Standard. Read more

Marianne Fox Ockinga

Marianne Fox Ockinga is a Dutch-born artist who works in watercolour, pastel and woodblock printing. She lives in London and has been commissioned to record the development of the 2012 Olympics site. Read more

B. H. Fraser

B. H. Fraser works in the City for a major bank and is the author of City Poems. Read more

David Free

David Free is an Australian novelist and critic. His latest novel is A Dancing Bear. Read more

Steve Fuller

Steve Fuller is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. He is the author of 15 books, including Dissent over Descent: Intelligent Design's Challenge to Darwinism.

Timothy Fuller

Timothy Fuller is a professor at Colorado College. He was co-editor, with Shirley Letwin, of The Selected Works of Michael Oakeshott.

Nicholas Garland

Nicholas Garland studied painting at The Slade. He was until recently the Daily Telegraph's political cartoonist.

Martin Gayford

Martin Gayford is a writer and art critic. His latest book, Man with a Blue Scarf, is published by Thames and Hudson. Read more

David Gentleman

David Gentleman is a leading artist, designer and print-maker.

Martin Gilbert

Sir Martin Gilbert is the author of many books, including Israel: A History, and Churchill and the Jews. His Atlas of the Arab-Israel Conflict is now in its ninth edition. In June, he was appointed a member of the Iraq War inquiry.

Victoria Glendinning

Victoria Glendinning is a biographer and novelist. Among her biographies is Jonathan Swift, and Leonard Woolf and she is the author of Love's Civil War, an edition of the love-letters and diaries of Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie.

Bernard Glick

Edward Bernard Glick is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Temple University in Philadelphia, USA.

Stephen Glover

Stephen Glover is a former editor of the Independent on Sunday, and a columnist for the Daily Mail and the Independent.

Richard Godwin

Richard Godwin is a columnist for the London Evening Standard, where he is also deputy arts editor. Read more

Jonah Goldberg

Jonah Goldberg is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and contributing editor to National Review. A former columnist for The Times, he has also written for The New Yorker, USA Today, Commentary, and the Wall Street Journal.

Angelica Goodden

Angelica Goodden is a Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford. Her books include biographies of Angelica Kauffmann, Elizabeth-Louise Vigee-Le-Brun and Germaine de Staël.

Paul Goodman

Paul Goodman is the Conservative MP for Wycombe, and a Shadow Minister of the Department for Communities and Local Government.

Professor Rüdiger Görner

Professor Rüdiger Görner is the Head of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film and Director of the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of many works on German literature.

Carmel Gould

Carmel Gould is the Content Manager of Just Journalism. Read more

Michael Gove

Michael Gove MP is Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families. He is the author of Celsius 7/7, and is on the Advisory Board of Standpoint.

Grey Gowrie

Grey Gowrie is a former Minister for the Arts and a former Chairman of the Arts Council of England. His latest collection of poems is Third Day (Carcanet).

Simon Gray and Charles Spencer

The playwright Simon Gray died on August 7. Shortly before his death he shared his thoughts on the theatre and much else in a Standpoint Dialogue with The Daily Telegraph's theatre critic Charles Spencer and our editor Daniel Johnson.

S.J.D. Green

S.J.D. Green is a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and author of The Passing of Protestant England (Cambridge University Press).

David Green

David Green is the director of the think-tank Civitas. Read more

Richard Griffiths

Richard Griffiths is a historian who has specialised in French and British political history of the first half of the 20th century. Read more

John Gross

John Gross is a former editor of the TLS. He is the author of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes.

Miriam Gross

Miriam Gross was formerly books and arts editor of the Sunday Telegraph.

Mark Gullick

Mark Gullick lives on a narrow boat, has a philosophy PhD and blogs at www.keepthinkingbutch.blogspot.com. Read more

Fisun Güner

Fisun Güner writes arts features and reviews for the New Statesman, Metro and the arts website www.theartsdesk.com Read more

William Hague

William Hague is the Shadow Foreign Secretary and MP for Richmond.

John Haldane

John Haldane is a philosopher, commentator and broadcaster, and a papal adviser to the Vatican. His most recent book, Arts and Minds (Powell's). Read more

John Haldane

John Haldane is a philosopher, commentator and broadcaster, and a papal adviser to the Vatican. His latest book is Arts and Minds (Powell's).

Tara Hamilton-Miller

Tara Hamilton-Miller is a freelance journalist and former Conservative Party press officer.

Alice Hancock

Alice Hancock is an undergraduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Read more

Michael Hanlon

Michael Hanlon is science editor of the Daily Mail and a contributor to the New Scientist. He is the author of Eternity: Our Next Billion Years.

James Hannam

James Hannam is a historian and the author of God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science (Icon), shortlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books 2010. He is working on a book about the English Reformation. Read more

Daniel Hannan

Daniel Hannan is a Conservative MEP for South East England. In 2009 he was awarded the Bastiat Prize for online journalism. Read more

Bruce Anderson and Robin Harris

The political columnist Bruce Anderson and Robin Harris, former Director of the Conservative Research Department and long-standing adviser to Lady Thatcher, debate David Cameron's Thatcherite credentials.

Selina Hastings

Selina Hastings was assistant Literary Editor of the Daily Telegraph for 14 years, and has written biographies of Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh, Rosamond Lehmann, and Somerset Maugham.

Nigel Hawkes

Nigel Hawkes has been Science Editor of the Observer and The Times. He is director of the pressure group Straight Statistics (straightstatistics.org). Read more

Clive Head

Clive Head is a realist painter. His work will be displayed in Clive Head: Modern Perspectives, at the National Gallery from October 13.

Simon Heffer

Simon Heffer is Editor of Mail Comment online and writes for the Daily Mail. His book on English usage, Strictly English is out now in paperback (Windmill).

Michael Heller

Michael Heller is a cosmologist who was awarded the 2008 Templeton Prize. A Catholic priest, he holds a chair at the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Kraków, Poland, and is an adjunct member of the Vatican Observatory staff.

Patrick Heren

Patrick Heren is a journalist who specialises in competitive energy markets. He is the founder of Heren Energy (now ICIS Heren).

Judith Herrin

Judith Herrin is Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at Kings' College London. She is the author of Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire.

James Hickling

James Hickling is a graduate of Nottingham University.

Susannah Hickling

Susannah Hickling is a freelance writer and editor. Read more

Susan Hill

Susan Hill is a writer, playwright, and literary critic. Her novels have been translated into many languages and have won the Whitbread and Somerset Maugham awards, and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Geoffrey Hill

Geoffrey Hill is a poet and academic. He is an honorary fellow of Keble College, Oxford and Emmanuel College, Cambridge and fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Read more

Gertrude Himmelfarb

Gertrude Himmelfarb is an American historian and author. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and in 2004 received the National Humanities Medal awarded by the President. She is on the Advisory Board of Standpoint.

Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens is a columnist on the Mail on Sunday and author of The Broken Compass: How British Politics Lost Its Way. Read more

Daniel Hitchens

Daniel Hitchens is an undergraduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Read more

Marko Attila Hoare

Marko Attila Hoare is a British historian of the former Yugoslavia. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Kingston University, London, and the European Neighbourhood Section Director of the Henry Jackson Society.

Nichi Hodgson

Nichi Hodgson is Standpoint's Production Editor Read more

Simon Hoggart

Simon Hoggart, a former presenter of the News Quiz, is the Guardian's parliamentary sketchwriter and television critic for the Spectator.

Karen Horn

Karen Horn is an economist and author. She teaches the history of economic thought at Humboldt University and is president of the Hayek Society.

William Horsley

William Horsley was a BBC correspondent in Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall and is currently international director of the Centre for Freedom of the Media at the University of Sheffield.

Michael Howard

Michael Howard is a British military historian and was Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford. He is the author of Grand Strategy. Vol. IV of the UK Official History of the Second World War.

Anthony Howard

Anthony Howard is a journalist, broadcaster and writer. He edited the New Statesman and the Listener, and was deputy editor of the Observer. Read more

Kathryn Hughes

Kathryn Hughes is Professor in the School of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton.

Katie Ivens

Katie Ivens is vice-chairman of the parents' organisation, the Campaign for Real Education, and education director of literacy charity Real Action.

Pico Iyer

Pico Iyer is an essayist and novelist. His book, The Open Road, is an account of 33 years of travelling and talking with the 14^th Dalai Lama. He lives in Japan.

Julian Jackson

Julian Jackson is Professor of History at Queen Mary University, London. He is the author of The Fall of France and France: The Dark Years 1940-44. His most recent book is Living in Arcadia: Homosexuality, Politics and Morality in France from the Liberation to Aids. Read more

Gerald Jacobs

Gerald Jacobs is Literary Editor of the Jewish Chronicle and the author of Sacred Games.

Dan Jacobson

Dan Jacobson was born and grew up in South Africa. He is Professor Emeritus at University College London, and is the author of All For Love.

Clive James

Clive James is an expatriate Australian author, poet, and critic. His published works include Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time, and Opal Sunset, a volume of selected poems. His website is CliveJames.com.

Jeremy Jennings

Jeremy Jennings is Professor of Political Theory at Queen Mary University of London. His latest book, Revolution and the Republic: A History of Political Thought in France since the Eighteenth Century, is published by Oxford University Press.

Siv Jensen and Bruce Bawer

Siv Jensen is the leader of Norway's Progress Party. In an interview with Standpoint editor Daniel Johnson, she explains her views. The American writer Bruce Bawer explains the background to her meteoric career.

Daniel Johnson

Daniel Johnson is the Editor of Standpoint.

Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson was Editor of the New Statesman from 1965-1970. His many works of history include The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830 as well as the trilogy Intellectuals, Creators and Heroes. His biography of Socrates will be published by Viking in November.

R.W. Johnson

R.W. Johnson is a journalist and historian. He is South Africa correspondent for the Sunday Times. He was a South African Rhodes Scholar and was a fellow in politics at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Luke Johnson and Michael Burleigh

Luke Johnson, entrepreneur and business commentator, discusses terrorism's growing menace with historian Michael Burleigh and Standpoint editor Daniel Johnson.

Edith Johnson

Edith Johnson is a student in London and a member of the National Youth Theatre.

Sarah Johnson

Sarah Johnson is a former education correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Telegraph and The Times. She is the author of Parents on Parenting, Daring to be Different and The Christian Parent's Toolkit.

Rick Jones

Rick Jones is a journalist who writes on the arts for the New Statesman and other publications. He studied under WG Sebald at the University of East Anglia.

Nigel Jones

Nigel Jones is a journalist, historian and biographer. He is the author of Countdown to Valkyrie: the July Plot to assassinate Hitler, with an afterword by Count Berthold von Stauffenberg.

Peter Jones

Peter Jones helped found Friends of Classics and the fund-raising charity Classics for All. His latest book is Vote for Caesar (Orion).

Marc Jordan

Marc Jordan works in the visual arts as a consultant and adviser. He is also founder of the Creative Education Trust, which connects creative businesses with schools in deprived areas.

Ben Judah

Ben Judah has reported from the Middle East and the Caucasus for ISN Security Watch, Economist Online and the New Republic Online.

Alan Judd

Alan Judd is a former soldier and diplomat, and the biographer of Ford Madox Ford and Mansfield Cumming, founder of MI6. He is the author of Dancing with Eva.

Anthony Julius

Anthony Julius is the Deputy Chairman of the London law firm Mishcon de Reya. He is the author of Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England (OUP). Read more

Oliver Kamm

Oliver Kamm is a leader writer and columnist for the Times. He is the author of Anti-Totalitarianism: The Left-wing Case for a Neoconservative Foreign Policy.

Masha Karp

Masha Karp is a Russian-born London-based freelance journalist. Read more

Efraim Karsh

Efraim Karsh is Head of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King's College London. His latest book, Palestine Betrayed, is published by Yale.

Raheem Kassam

Raheem Kassam manages the counter-radicalisation pressure group 'Student Rights' from within the Henry Jackson Society. Read more

Travis Kavulla

Travis Kavulla, a former associate editor of National Review, is a Gates Scholar in History at Cambridge University, a 2008 Phillips Foundation journalism fellow, and a recent graduate of Harvard.

Terence Kealey

Terence Kealey is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham and the author of Sex, Science and Profits. Read more

Julian Keeling

Julian Keeling is a freelance journalist and a counsellor of addiction sufferers.

Necla Kelek and Karen Horn

Necla Kelek is a sociologist, author and campaigner against repression of women under Islam. Her latest book is Journey to Heaven: My Fight with the Guardians of Islam, (Kiepenheuer & Witsch).

Karen Horn is an economist, author and

director of the Berlin office of the Institut

der deutschen Wirtschaft, an economic

research institute.

James Kelly

James Kelly is a researcher on the "Who were the Nuns?" project at Queen Mary, University of London. Read more

Gary Kent

Gary Kent is a writer who visited Iraqi Kurdistan with the UK all-party parliamentary group on the region.

Björn Kern

Björn Kern has written three novels based on his experience working with mentally disabled and elderly people in France. He lives in Berlin.

Roy Kerridge

Roy Kerridge is a journalist and author who has written for Prospect, The Salisbury Review, and the Spectator.

Ian Kershaw

Sir Ian Kershaw was Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield until his retirement in 2008. He is the author of a two-volume biography of Hitler. Read more

Laura Keynes

Laura Keynes has written for Online Review, the TLS and the Observer. She has a DPhil from Oxford University. Read more

Roger Kimball

Roger Kimball is co-editor and co-publisher of The New Criterion magazine and the publisher of Encounter Books.

James Kirchick

James Kirchick is an American journalist and political commentator. He is an assistant editor at the New Republic and a contributor to the Los Angeles Times.

Len Krisak

Len Krisak's most recent book is a translation of Virgil's Eclogues (University of Pennsylvania Press).

William Kristol

William Kristol is the founder and editor of the Weekly Standard and a board member of US think-tanks Foreign Policy Initiative and Keep America Safe. Read more

David Kynaston

David Kynaston is an English historian and the author of Austerity Britain: 1945-1951.

Walter Laqueur

Walter Laqueur is the author of Terrorism (first published in 1977) and Guerrilla (1976), which are among the leading texts in this field and have been translated into many languages. Read more

Sheila Lawlor

Sheila Lawlor is director of the think-tank Politeia. Her next book will be on the politics of post-war social policy.

Nigel Lawson

Nigel Lawson is a Conservative politician and former Chancellor of the Exchequer. His latest book is An Appeal to Reason, and he is on the Advisory Board of Standpoint.

Oliver Letwin and Nigel Lawson

Former Tory chancellor Nigel Lawson challenges David Cameron’s Conservatives and their global warming policies, whilst the party’s policy chief Oliver Letwin defends them.

Dominic Lawson

Dominic Lawson is a colomnist for the Sunday Times and the Independent. Read more

Ruth Lea

Ruth Lea is economic adviser to the Arbuthnot Banking Group and a Vice-President of the National Churches Trust. Read more

Rodney Leach

Rodney Leach is the Director of Jardine Matheson Group and chairman of Open Europe. He is the author of Europe, A Concise Encyclopedia, and was made a life peer in 2006.

Adam LeBor

Adam LeBor is a British author and journalist based in Budapest. He reports from Central Europe for The Times and is the author of City of Oranges.

Norman Lebrecht

Norman Lebrecht is an author and broadcaster. His latest book is Why Mahler? (Faber).

Oliver Letwin

Oliver Letwin MP chairs the Conservative Research Department and the party's Policy Review. Read more

Angela Levin

Angela Levin is a journalist and broadcaster who writes chiefly for the Mail on Sunday. She is the author of Loving Peter, a memoir of Peter Cook.

Davis Lewin

Davis Lewin is a Senior Resident Fellow at The Henry Jackson Society.

Francesca Lewis

Francesca Lewis is a graduate of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and the London School of Economics. Read more

Sophie Lewis

Sophie Lewis manages the Europe office of Dalkey Archive Press in London. Her translation of Stendhal's De l'Amour is published by Hesperus.

Oliver Lewis

Oliver Lewis has worked for the Conservative politicians Michael Gove and Andrew Lansley. He was involved with the launch of the first free schools. Read more

Conrad Leyser

Conrad Leyser is Fellow and Tutor in History at Worcester College, Oxford. He is the author of Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great (OUP).

Ottoline Leyser

Ottoline Leyser is Professor of Plant Developmental Genetics at the University of York.

Joseph Loconte

Joseph Loconte is a senior research fellow at The King's College in New York. He is the editor of The End of Illusions: Religious Leaders Confront Hitler's Gathering Storm.

Robert Low

Robert Low is Consultant Editor at Standpoint.

Anthony Loyd

Anthony Loyd has been a special correspondent for The Times for 15 years. He has been a frequent visitor to Afghanistan since 1996.

Edward Lucas

Edward Lucas is the author of The New Cold War: how the Kremlin threatens both Russia and the West. He is the Central and Eastern Europe correspondent of The Economist, and has reported on the region for more than 20 years.

Edward Lucas and Mary Dejevsky

Edward Lucas and Mary Dejevsky, both leading commentators on Russia and eastern Europe, discuss the Georgian crisis and its implications for the West. Read more

Margot Lurie

Margot Lurie is associate editor of Jewish Ideas Daily. Her work has appeared in the New Criterion, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Commentary and the Jewish Review of Books.

Giles Macdonogh

Giles MacDonogh has written for the Financial Times, the Guardian, and the Times. He is the author of After the Reich: from the Fall of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift.

James MacMillan

James MacMillan is a Scottish composer whose specially commissioned congrgational Mass was performed when Pope Benedict beatified Cardinal Newman during his visit to Britain last year. Forthcoming projects include a new Violin Concerto written for Vadim Repin and performances of his St John Passion with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and London Symphony Orchesta. Read more

Denis MacShane

Denis MacShane is Labour MP for Rotherham.

Shiraz Maher

Shiraz Maher is a writer and broadcaster.

Noel Malcolm

Noel Malcolm is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and the author of Kosovo: A Short History, and Aspects of Hobbes. He is on the Advisory Board of Standpoint.

Kate Maltby

Kate Maltby blogs at nazg.com/iqrai

Jessica Mann

Jessica Mann is a crime-writer and journalist. She is the author of Deadlier Than the Male.

Philip Mansel

Philip Mansel's books include a life of Louis XVIII and a history of Paris after 1814. He is editor of the Court Historian, journal of the society for Court Studies.

Jonathan Margolis

Jonathan Margolis is a journalist and author. He has written biographies of John Cleese and Bernard Manning.

Ann Marlowe

Ann Marlowe is an American critic and journalist who writes for the Wall Street Journal and New York Post. She is the author of How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z and has an interest in Afghanistan.

Justin Marozzi

Justin Marozzi is a travel writer, historian, journalist and political risk and security consultant. He is the author of South from Barbary (HarperCollins), a travel history of Libya and is writing a history of Baghdad.

Andrew Marr

Andrew Marr is a BBC broadcaster and the author of A History of Modern Britain. He hosts The Andrew Marr Show on BBC One and presents Radio 4's Start The Week.

Minette Marrin

Minette Marrin is a columnist for the Sunday Times, as well as a broadcaster and fiction writer.

Philip Marsden

Philip Marsden is an English travel writer and novelist. He is the author of The Barefoot Emperor; An Ethiopian Tragedy. He lives in Cornwall and is currently writing a book about the sea.

Laura Marsh

Laura Marsh is a graduate of Christ Church, Oxford, and a winner of the London Review of Books Young Reviewers Competition 2010.

Barry Martin

Barry Martin is the Artist-in-Residence at Chiswick House, London. His works hang in the Tate, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. His new exhibition, The Discerning Eye, is at the Mall Galleries. Read more

John Martin

John Martin is an academic doctor and scientist at University College London and Yale University. His latest book of poetry, The Root of Blue is Yellow, will be published by IMS Press later in the year. Read more

Iain Martin

Iain Martin is a political columnist for the Daily Mail. He was formerly editor of the Scotsman and deputy editor of the Sunday Telegraph and Wall Street Journal Europe. Read more

Jamie Martin

Jamie Martin helped Michael Gove to develop the Conservative Party's schools policy. Read more

Allan Massie

Allan Massie has written some twenty novels and a number of non-fiction books, including The Thistle and the Rose, a study of Anglo-Scottish relations. He writes a fortnightly column, "Life & Letters", for the Spectator.

Derwent May

Derwent May was literary editor of The Listener and the Sunday Telegraph. His latest books are Wondering About Many Women (Greenwich Exchange), a volume of poetry, and Life on the Wing: A Bird Chronicle from the Pages of the Times (Robson Press).

Jenny McCartney

Jenny McCartney is the film critic and a columnist at the Sunday Telegraph.

Melanie McDonagh

Melanie McDonagh is an Irish journalist based in London and a leader-writer for the London Evening Standard.

Anne McElvoy

Anne McElvoy is Public Policy editor of the Economist. She was made Deputy Editor of the Spectator in 1996 and Associate Editor of the Independent in 1998. She has published two books on Germany.

John McEwen

John McEwen is an art critic and the author of Paula Rego: Behind the Scenes. Read more

Max McGuinness

Max McGuinness is a columnist and blogger for The Dubliner magazine. He also writes for the Irish Times, GQ, and Magill. He directed his own play, Up The Republic!, at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival.

Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens

Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens is a Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, King’s College London, where he is also a PhD candidate.

Robert Messenger

Robert Messenger was one of the founding editors of the New York Sun. He writes on books and culture for US publications. Read more

William Meyers

William Meyers writes about photography for the Wall Street Journal. His own pictures can be seen on his website http://www.williammeyersphotography.com/ Read more

Lucasta Miller

Lucasta Miller works for the Guardian, and is the author of The Brontë Myth.

Kenneth Minogue

Kenneth Minogue taught at the LSE for some 40 years, and is Emeritus Professor of Political Science. He is the author of The Moral Life and the Democratic Revolution.

Madeleine Minson

Madeleine Minson is a Swedish freelance writer and editor. She lives in London. Read more

Jonathan Mirsky

Jonathan Mirsky was the China Correspondent of The Observer and East Asia editor of the Times. In 1989 he was named International Reporter of the Year for his dispatches from Tiananmen.

Jonathan Mirsky

Jonathan Mirsky was the China correspondent of the Observer and East Asia editor of The Times. In 1989 he was named International Reporter of the Year.

Ray Monk

Ray Monk is Professor of Philosophy at the Centre for Post-Analytic Philosophy at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius and a biography of Bertrand Russell.

Jung Chang, Jon Halliday and Simon Sebag Montefiore

Jung Chang and her husband Jon Halliday are leading authorities on Mao, while Simon Sebag Montefiore has published two major works on Stalin.

Tim Montgomerie

Tim Montgomerie is editor of the ConservativeHome website and co-founder of the Conservative Christian Fellowship. Read more

Charles Moore

Charles Moore is a columnist of the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator, and the former Editor of both publications, as well as the former Editor of the Sunday Telegraph. He is engaged in writing the authorised biography of Margaret Thatcher.

Caroline Moore

Caroline Moore is a writer and reviewer, and has written for the Spectator and the Daily Telegraph.

Charles Moore and Sir Christopher Bland

Charles Moore is a columnist for, and former editor of, the Daily Telegraph. Sir Christopher Bland was Chairman of the BBC from 1996-2001, and has been Chairman of BT and London Weekend Television. Read more

Caroline Moorehead

Caroline Moorehead is the biographer of Bertrand Russell, Freya Stark, Iris Origo and Martha Gellhorn. She has also published a history of the Red Cross and a book about refugees, Human Cargo.

Loanna Morrison

Loanna Morrison is a Conservative parliamentary candidate. Formerly a Sunday Express journalist and Voice columnist, she has just completed a political science degree. Read more

Michael Mosbacher

Michael Mosbacher is Director of the Social Affairs Unit and Managing Editor of Standpoint.

Nicholas Mosley and Sir Raymond Carr

Nicholas Mosley has published two volumes of biography of his father, Oswald Mosley, and has written many novels. He discusses the rise and fall of British fascism with Sir Raymond Carr, the leading Spanish historian.

Ferdinand Mount

Ferdinand Mount is a writer, novelist, and Conservative politician. He is the author of Cold Cream, and a former Editor of the TLS.

Harry Mount

Harry Mount is a writer, journalist, and former barrister. He is the author of A Lust for Window Sills - a Lover's Guide to British Buildings from Portcullis to Pebble-Dash.

Dambisa Moyo and Richard Dowden

Dambisa Moyo, Zambian-born economist and author of Dead Aid, discusses foreign aid with Richard Dowden, executive director of the Royal African Society.

Douglas Murray

Douglas Murray is Associate Director of the Henry Jackson Society and author of Bloody Sunday: Truths, Lies and the Saville Inquiry (Biteback).

Charles Murray

Charles Murray is the W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC. He is the author of Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality.

Michael Nazir-Ali

Michael Nazir-Ali was the Anglican Bishop of Rochester, 1994-2009. His new book, Triple Jeopardy for the West: Aggressive Secularism, Radical Islam and Multiculturalism, is out this autumn from Continuum.

Vanessa Neumann

Vanessa Neumann has a Ph.D. in political philosophy from Columbia University and is a former lecturer at Hunter College, CUNY. She is currently Editor-at-Large of Diplomat magazine.

Jonathan Neumann

Jonathan Neumann is a graduate of Cambridge and the LSE. He writes and teaches, and works in the non-profit sector.

Pamela Neville-Sington

Pamela Neville-Sington is the author of Fanny Trollope: The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman and Robert Browning: A Life After Death.

Aidan Nichols OP

Aidan Nichols is a Dominican friar of the Priory of St Michael the Archangel, Cambridge. He is John Paul II Memorial Visiting Lecturer at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Greyfriars, Oxford. He is the author of The Realm (Family Publications).

Archbishop Vincent Nichols

Archbishop Vincent Nichols is the Archbishop of Westminster, President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales and spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales. He was formerly Archbishop of Birmingham. Read more

C.P. Nield

C.P. Nield's poetry has been published in New Poetries IV (Carcanet), as well as journals Ambit, The London Magazine and Magma. In 2006, he was awarded the Keats-Shelley prize.

Jay Nordlinger

Jay Nordlinger is a senior editor at National Review. His book, Peace, They Say (Encounter) is out now.

Dr Edward Norman

Dr Edward Norman was Canon Chancellor of York Minster and is an ecclesiastical historian. He is an emeritus Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. Read more

William Norton

William Norton is a research fellow of the TayPayers Alliance. He is the author of Monument and Bank: Capitalism and the Anglo-Saxon Mind, to be published shortly by the Social Affairs Unit. Read more

Michael Novak

Michael Novak is an author and theologian who held three ambassadorial posts under President Ronald Regan. His most recent books are All Nature Is a Sacramental Fire and Living the Call: An Introduction to the Lay Vocation (co-authored). Read more

John O'Sullivan

John O'Sullivan is Executive Editor of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague and a Senior Fellow of the Hudson Institute in Washington. Read more

Cristina Odone

Cristina Odone is a former Editor of the Catholic Herald who broadcasts regularly on religious and ethical issues. She is a research fellow of the Centre for Policy Studies, and is the author of The Dilemmas of Harriet Carew.

Bijan Omrani

Bijan Omrani is a writer and journalist, and has written for the Spectator. He is the author of two guides to Afghanistan and Iran.

Eric Ormsby

Eric Ormsby's Fine Incisions: Essays on Poetry and Place appeared in January. The Baboons of Hada, a new selection of his poems, has just been published by Carcanet.

George Osborne

George Osborne is MP for Tatton and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Emanuele Ottolenghi

Emanuele Ottolenghi is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defence of Democracies: See his profile here

Geoffrey Owen

Sir Geoffrey Owen is an academic at the London School of Economics and former editor of the Financial Times. His most recent book, The Rise and Fall of Great Companies, was published by OUP in 2010.

Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick's novels include the The Puttermesser Papers and Heir to the Glimmering World, published in Britain as The Bear Boy. She is the author of a collection of essays entitled The Din in the Head.

Alasdair Palmer

Alasdair Palmer is public policy editor of the Sunday Telegraph and has worked as a Producer on films for HBO.

Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk is Turkey's best-known novelist. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. He is the author of Snow and his latest novel, The Museum of Innocence, is out in September.

Allison Pearson

Allison Pearson is a columnist at the Daily Mail and the author of I Don't Know How She Does It.

Julia Pettengill

Julia Pettengill is a writer and policy researcher, and Director of the Campaign for the Responsibility to Protect at the Henry Jackson Society. Read more

Harry Phibbs

Harry Phibbs is a journalist and local councillor representing the Ravenscourt Park Ward on Hammersmith and Fulham Council. He is Editor of ConservativeHome's local government section.

Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips is a columnist for the Daily Mail and Jewish Chronicle, and a regular panellist on BBC Radio Four's The Moral Maze. Her most recent book is The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth and Power (Encounter).

Michael Pinto-Duschinsky

Michael Pinto-Duschinsky is senior consultant on constitutional affairs to Policy Exchange. In 2011-12 he was a member of the Commission on a Bill of Rights. Read more

Nick Piper

‘The post-1989 temptation in Prague has been two-fold. The first has been to legislate the totalitarian past out of existence, the second has been to copy the liberal West blindly at a lag of 20 years’ Read more

Fiona Pitt-Kethley

Fiona Pitt-Kethley is a writer and poet. She lives in Cartagena, Spain and is currently writing poems and a prose book on the Sierra Minera. Read more

Simon Scott Plummer

Simon Scott Plummer is a freelance journalist and former leader writer on the Daily Telegraph.

The Point

The Point is Standpoint's staff blog.

Nidra Poller

Nidra Poller is an American novelist and journalist who has lived in Paris since 1972. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, City Journal and National Post.

Peter Porter

Peter Porter's latest poetry collection is Better Than God. Read more

John Preston

John Preston is the TV critic of the Sunday Telegraph. His latest novel is The Dig.

A.W. Price

A.W. Price is the author of Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle, Mental Conflict, and Contextuality in Practical Reason.

Munro Price

Munro Price is Professor of Modern History at Bradford University. He is the author of The Perilous Crown: France Between Revolutions.

Gwyn Prins

Gwyn Prins is a Research Professor at the London School of Economics and the lead author of The Hartwell Paper, another coalition launched on May 11. Read more

Michael Prodger

Michael Prodger is an art historian and former literary editor of The Sunday Telegraph. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham

David Pryce-Jones

David Pryce-Jones is a Senior Editor of National Review. He was Literary Editor of the Financial Times and the Spectator, and is the author of Betrayal: France, the Arabs and the Jews.

David Quinn

David Quinn is a columnist with the Irish Independent. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, Sunday Telegraph and National Review. He was previously a columnist for the Sunday Times, and is a former editor of the Irish Catholic.

Craig Raine

Craig Raine is a poet, dramatist, librettist and essayist. He is the founder editor of the literary magazine Areté. His first novel, Heartbreak, will appear in July. Read more

Frederic Raphael

Frederic Raphael is a screenwriter, novelist, and journalist. He worked with Stanley Kubrick on his final film, Eyes Wide Shut, and is the author of the trilogy The Glittering Prizes. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1964

Andrew Rawnsley and Nick Cohen

Andrew Rawnsley is an author, broadcaster and the Observer's chief political commentator. His new book is The End of the Party (Penguin). Nick Cohen is a columnist for the Observer and regular contributor to Standpoint.

Piers Paul Read

Piers Paul Read and David Heathcoat-Amory

Piers Paul Read is the author of reportage (Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors), history (The Templars), biography (Alec Guinness), collected journalism and fiction. David Heathcoat-Amory is the Conservative MP for Wells, and was a UK Parliamentary Representative to the Convention on the Future of Europe, which drafted the European Constitution. Read more

Nick Redgrove

Nick Redgrove is Standpoint's Web Editor. Read more

Laurence Rees

Laurence Rees is a documentary filmmaker and historian. He is the author of World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West. Read more

Annunziata Rees-Mogg

Annunziata Rees-Mogg is the Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Somerton and Frome.

Aileen Reid

Aileen Reid is an historian on the Survey of London at English Heritage, and is curator of Emery Walker's house in Hammersmith.

Dave Rich

Dave Rich is Deputy Director of Communications at the Community Security Trust. Read more

Andrew Roberts

Andrew Roberts is an historian. His latest book is The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War.

Geoffrey Robertson QC

Geoffrey Robertson QC is Head of Doughty Street Chambers and author of The Tyrannicide Brief and Crimes Against Humanity. Read more

Hamish Robinson

Hamish Robinson is the author of The Gift Returned and was poet-in-residence of the Wordsworth Trust in 2005. He is the concierge of Hawthornden Castle, the writers’ retreat.

Mark Ronan

Mark Ronan is Honorary Professor of Mathematics at University College, London, Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and author of Symmetry and the Monster. He also runs an on-line review site for opera, ballet and theatre. See it here.

David Rose

David Rose writes for the Mail on Sunday and Vanity Fair. His most recent book, The Big Eddy Club: Southern Justice and the Stocking Stranglings is published in a new edition by the New Press in New York this month.

Tracey S. Rosenberg

Tracey S. Rosenberg was recently awarded a New Writers' Award by the Scottish Book Trust. Her debut novel, The Girl in the Bunker, will be published summer 2011.

Joshua Rozenberg

Joshua Rozenberg is an independent legal commentator who presents Law in Action on BBC Radio 4.

William D. Rubinstein

William D. Rubinstein is professor of history at the University of Aberystwyth. He is the author, among other works, of A History of the Jews in the English-Speaking World: Great Britain (1996), and was President of the Jewish Historical Society of England in 2002-2004.

Tobias Rüther

Tobias Rüther's is the author of Helden. David Bowie und Berlin - an analysis of Bowie's years in Berlin and a cultural history of the city in the mid-1970s.

Jonathan Sacks

Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth, was created a life peer in 2009. His most recent book is The Great Partnership (Hodder)

Razeen Sally

Razeen Sally is co-director of the European Centre for International Political Economy, and teaches at the LSE.

Roger Sandall

Roger Sandall is an essayist and commentator on cultural relativism. He is the author of The Culture Cult: Designer Tribalism and Other Essays.

Edwina Sandys

Edwina Sandys is an English artist based in New York. Her commissions include several by the UN and the "Breakthrough" memorial in Fulton, Missouri. Read more

Charles Saumarez Smith

Charles Saumarez Smith is Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts. A former director of the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery, he has recently published The National Gallery: A Short History. Read more

Victoria Schofield

Victoria Schofield is a writer and commentator on South Asian politics. She has written several articles for The Spectator and is the author of Bhutto: Trial and Execution and Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia.

Ingo Schulze

Ingo Schulze is the leading German writer to emerge since 1989 from the former GDR. He has won several awards for his novels and stories. He is the author of Adam and Evelyn. Read more

Claudia Schwartz

Claudia Schwartz is a Research Assistant at the Legatum Institute. Read more

Neil Scolding

Neil Scolding is the Burden Professor of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Bristol and Director of the Burden Neurological Institute.

David Scott

Dr David Scott is a Senior Research Fellow for the History of Parliament Trust.

Alev Scott

Alev Scott is an Istanbul-based writer. She teaches Latin at Bosphorus University.

James Scott Linville

James Scott Linville is a film maker, journalist, and blogger, and a former co-editor of the Paris Review.

Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton is a professor of philosophy at St Andrews University and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. His latest book is The Face of God (Continuum).

Ruth Scurr

Ruth Scurr is a fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She is the author of Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution.

Francesca Segal

Francesca Segal has written for Granta, the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the Financial Times and the Jewish Chronicle. She is currently a features writer at Tatler, and is the Observer's Debut Fiction columnist.

Raymond Seitz

Raymond Seitz was the U.S. Ambassador to the UK from 1991-94, and is the author of Over Here.

David Sexton

David Sexton is Literary Editor of the London Evening Standard and has written for the Guardian and the First Post.

Richard Shannon

Richard Shannon is the retired Professor Emeritus of Modern History at University of Wales Swansea. He has published extensively on 19th-century British history. His most recent book is Gladstone: God and Politics (Continuum, 2007). Read more

JM Shaw

JM Shaw is a writer, and the author of The Illumination of Merton Browne.

William Shawcross

William Shawcross's most recent book was Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother: The Official Biography (Macmillan). (Photo credit: Susan Greenhill)

Robin Shepherd

Robin Shepherd is the Director of International Affairs at the Henry Jackson Society. His latest book is A State Beyond the Pale: Europe's Problem with Israel (Weidenfeld & Nicholson).

Jane Shilling

Jane Shilling is a journalist and author of The Fox in the Cupboard: A Memoir. Jane Shilling is the author of a memoir, The Fox in the Cupboard. Her book on middle age, The Stranger in the Mirror, will be published in 2009.

James Shinn

James Shinn was US Assistant Secretary of Defense from 2007-8, with prime policy responsibility for Afghanistan. He previously served in the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department, and teaches at Princeton University.

Amity Shlaes

Amity Shlaes won the International Policy Network's Bastiat Prize for Journalism in 2002 for her work in the Financial Times. She is the author of The Forgotten Man: a New History of the Great Depression.

Ryan Shorthouse

Ryan Shorthouse is a freelance writer.

Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver’s latest novel, The New Republic, is published by HarperCollins. The film of her novel We Need to Talk About Kevin was released last year. Read more

Marc Sidwell

Marc Sidwell is the author of the New Culture Forum’s report, The Arts Council: Managed to Death

Professor Karol Sikora

Professor Karol Sikora is Britain's leading cancer expert. He is senior editor of Treatment of Cancer, a widely used international textbook now in its 5th edition. Read more

Robin Simcox

Robin Simcox is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Cohesion and Section Director for the Henry Jackson Society.

Brendan Simms

Brendan Simms is Professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Cambridge, and author of Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia.

Rana Siu Inboden

Rana Siu Inboden previously worked on humans rights at the US State Department.

Robert Skidelsky and Tim Congdon

Lord Skidelsky, the biographer of Keynes, is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. Tim Congdon is a former adviser to the Treasury and a founder of Lombard Street Research. Read more

Sarah Skwire

Sarah Skwire is a Fellow of Liberty Fund and author of Writing with a Thesis, now in its 11th edition. Read more

E.T. Smith

Ed Smith is a former professional cricketer for Kent and Middlesex, who played three times for England. He is now a writer, and the author of What Sport Tells Us About Life.

Lee Smith

Lee Smith is a visiting fellow at the Hudson Institute where he specializes in Levant affairs.

John Smith

A new documentary made in Afghanistan has won two awards at the the Sundance Film Festival. Afghan Star could help the cause of feminism there and encourage a desperately-needed sense of national community Read more

Chloe Smith

Chloe Smith won the Norwich North by-election for the Conservatives in July. Read more

Fredric Smoler

Fredric Smoler teaches Literature and History at Sarah Lawrence College and is a contributing editor of American Heritage.

Anne Somerset

Anne Somerset is a historian and was married to the late Matthew Carr. Her book Elizabeth I has been republished by Orion. Read more

Charles Spencer

Charles Spencer has been theatre critic of the Daily Telegraph since 1991. He was named critic of the year at the British Press Awards in 1999 and 2008.

Nick Spencer

Nick Spencer is the Director of Studies at Theos, a public theology think-tank.

Standpoint Staff

Daniel Johnson, Georgina Blackwell, Hannah Stone, Frances Weaver, Robert Low, Emily Read, and Miriam Gross.

Peter Stanford

Peter Stanford is a biographer, columnist and former editor of the Catholic Herald. His next book is The Extra Mile: A 21st Century Pilgrimage, to be published next year by Continuum.

Berenika Stefanska

Berenika Stefanska is a freelance writer based in Germany and Africa. Read more

Rick Stein

Rick Stein is an English chef, restaurateur and television presenter.

John Stein

John Stein is a Professor of Neuroscience at Magdalen College, Oxford. His research focuses on the control of movement and behaviour in animals, neurological patients, dyslexics and young offenders.

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz has written more than 60 books, including acclaimed Talmudic translations and commentaries. He lives in Jerusalem. Read more

Irwin Stelzer

Irwin Stelzer is a business adviser and director of economic policy studies at the Hudson Institute in New York, and US columnist for The Sunday Times.

Hannah Stone

Hannah Stone is an editorial assistant at Standpoint.

Professors Norman Stone and Jeremy Black

Norman Stone is Professor of International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara, and also lives in Oxford, where he was Professor of Modern History until 1997. Jeremy Black is a Professor of History at the University of Exeter.

Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard is a British playwright. He wrote, among others, The Coast of Utopia, Arcadia, Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead and Rock 'n' Roll. He is on the Advisory Board of Standpoint.

Gisela Stuart

Gisela Stuart has been the Labour MP for Birmingham Edgbaston since 1997, a trustee of the Henry Jackson Society and is editor of the parliamentary weekly political House Magazine.

Barton Swaim

Barton Swaim works as a speechwriter. He is the author of Scottish Men of Letters and the New Public Sphere, 1802-1834.

Helen Szamuely

Helen Szamuely is the Editor of the Conservative History Journal and writes the Your Freedom and Ours blog.

Amir Taheri

Amir Taheri writes for various magazines and newspapers about the Middle East, Islamist terrorism and the Iranian regime.

Raymond Tallis and Roger Scruton

Raymond Tallis is a retired physician and academic. His forthcoming book, Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Mispresentation of Mankind, will be published by Atlantic next year. Roger Scruton is Visiting Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Oxford and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. His book, The Uses of Pessimism and the Danger of False Hope, was published in June by Atlantic.

Michael Taube

Michael Taube is a columnist for the Ottawa Citizen, and former speechwriter for Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper. Read more

Francesca Teoh

Francesca Teoh is a graduate of Durham University.

Sean Thomas

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

Gina Thomas

Gina Thomas is the UK cultural correspondent of the Frankfurter Allgemeiner Zeitung.

Hugh Thomas

Hugh Thomas's career has encompassed both America and Europe, history and politics, as a professor at New York and Boston Universities and as Chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies in London. He was awarded a peerage in 1981 and recently the Cristobal Gabarron Prize. His new book, The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V, is published by Penguin. Read more

J.W.M. Thompson

J.W.M. Thompson was Editor of the Sunday Telegraph, 1976-86. He lives on the North Norfolk coast.

Anthony Thwaite

Anthony Thwaite is a poet and writer. He was formerly Literary Editor of the New Statesman and Editor of Encounter. His Collected Poems came out in 2007, and in 1992 he was awarded the OBE for services to poetry.

Stella Tillyard

Stella Tillyard's Tides of War: A Novel of the Peninsular War was published by Chatto & Windus in 2011. Aristocrats, her bestselling work on the Lennox family, was serialised for the BBC. Read more

Rebecca Tinsley

Rebecca Tinsley is chair of the human rights organisation Waging Peace. She used to work with the BBC and has had two novels published. She is on the Human Rights Watch London committee and is a trustee of the Carter Centre UK.

Michael J. Totten

Michael J. Totten is an independent journalist whose works has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and numerous other publications. The Week magazine named him Blogger of the Year in 2007 for his dispatches from the Middle East.

William Tucker

William Tucker writes for the American Spectator and is the author of Terrestrial Energy: How Nuclear Power Will Lead the Green Revolution and End America's Energy Odyssey.

Geza Vermes

Geza Vermes, Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at Oxford, is the leading authority on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the historical Jesus. His book, Christian Beginnings: From Nazareth to Nicaea (AD 30-325) will be published by Allen Lane in the summer of 2012.

Sarah Vine

Sarah Vine is a journalist and author, and is a leader writer at The Times.

Spike Vrusho

Spike Vrusho is a journalist and taxi driver. He is the author of Benchclearing: Baseball's Greatest Fights and Riots and lives in Rhinebeck, New York.

George Walden

George Walden is a former diplomat and Conservative Minister, now a writer. His books include Who's a Dandy, God Won't Save America, Time To Emigrate, and China: A Wolf in the World?

Celia Walden

Celia Walden is a feature writer on the Daily Telegraph. Her first novel, Harm's Way, was published in 2009. Read more

Guy Walters

Guy Walters is the author of Berlin Games - How Hitler Stole the Olympic Dream, and Hunting Evil, a history of how the Nazis escaped and were tracked down (or not).

Keith Ward

Keith Ward is a British cleric and scholar, and the author of many books, including The God Conclusion.

Bryan Ward-Perkins

Bryan Ward-Perkins is a lecturer in History at Oxford University and Fellow of Trinity College. He is the author of The Fall of Rome and The End of Civilisation. Read more

John Ware

John Ware is a freelance broadcaster and writer. He was the Royal Television Society's Broadcast Journalist of the Year in 2001. Read more

David Wark

David Wark holds the Chair in High Energy Physics at Imperial College, London.

Jeremy Warner

Jeremy Warner is Business Editor of the Independent.

Ibn Warraq

Ibn Warraq (a pseudonym) wrote his first book, Why I am not a Muslim, in 1995 in response to the Rushdie Affair. He is the author of Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism.

David Watkin

David Watkin is Professor of the History of Architecture Cambridge University. He is the author of Sir John Soane and A History of Western Architecture. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

David Watkin

As a student Terry was told he would fail if he continued to submit any more classical designs Read more

Daisy Waugh

Daisy Waugh is a columnist for the Sunday Times. Her most recent novel Last Dance With Valentino, was published in February.

Frances Weaver

Frances Weaver is the web editor and columnist of Standpoint.

George Weidenfeld and Andrew Roberts

Lord Weidenfeld is the co-founder and chairman of Weidenfeld & Nicholson. He turns 90 this month. Andrew Roberts is an historian. His latest book is The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War. Read more

George Weigel

George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington’s Ethics and Public Policy Center. He has recently completed his two-volume biography of Pope John Paul II with the publication of The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II—The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy (Doubleday).

Michael Weiss

Michael Weiss is Executive Director of Just Journalism. His work has appeared in Slate, The Weekly Standard and The New Criterion.

Ed West

Ed West writes for the Daily Telegraph and the Catholic Herald. His book The Diversity Delusion will be published next year by Gibson Square. Read more

Peter Whittle

Peter Whittle is director of the New Culture Forum and author of Look at Me: Celebrating the Self in Modern Britain, Private Views: Voices from the Front Line of British Culture and, most recently, Monarchy Matters.

Philip French and Peter Whittle

In the run-up to the Oscars, the doyen of British film criticism, the Observer's film critic Philip French, discusses the demise of cinema as an art form with Standpoint's critic Peter Whittle.

Jamie Whyte

Jamie Whyte is the head of research at Oliver Wyman, a former philosophy lecturer and the author of Bad Thoughts: A Guide to Clear Thinking

David Willetts and Frank Field

David Willetts MP is the Shadow Minister for Universities and Skills. His latest book, The Pinch, is published by Atlantic Books. Frank Field MP is the former Minister for Welfare Reform and chairman of the Churches Conservation Trust. Read more

Oliver Wiseman

Oliver Wiseman works for Standpoint. Read more

Ruth R. Wisse and Jack Wertheimer

Ruth R. Wisse is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Her books include Jews and Power (Jewish Encounters). Jack Wertheimer is the Joseph and Martha Mendelson Professor of American Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. His books include A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America (Basic Books) and Imagining the American Jewish Community (Brandeis University Press).

Robert Solomon Wistrich

Robert Solomon Wistrich is the Neuburger Professor of European and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Paul Wolfowitz

Paul Wolfowitz is a visiting scholar in foreign and defense policy studies at AEI, where he studies development issues. He has spent more than three decades in public service and higher education. Most recently, he served as president of the World Bank and deputy secretary of defense. Read more

Philip Womack

Philip Womack is a contributing editor of the Literary Review. His second novel, The Liberators, is published by Bloomsbury. Read more

David Womersley

David Womersley is the Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He has edited Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson. His edition of Gulliver's Travels will be published by CUP later this year.

Chris Woodhead

Chris Woodhead is the former Chief Inspector for Schools. His latest book is A Desolation of Learning: Is This the Education our Children Deserve?

Alexander Woolfson

Alexander Woolfson is a BBC defence analyst and is pursuing doctoral research at the London School of Economics. Read more

Blair Worden

Blair Worden is a writer and historian, and is Research Professor of History at Royal Holloway College London. He is the author of many books, including Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England.

Peregrine Worsthorne

Peregrine Worsthorne is a writer, newspaper columnist and former Editor of the Sunday Telegraph.

Michela Wrong

Michela Wrong is a freelance writer on Africa. Her most recent book is It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower.

Howard Jacobson and A.B. Yehoshua

Howard Jacobson is a novelist and critic. His most recent novel is The Act of Love. A.B. Yehoshua novels include A Woman in Jerusalem, The Liberated Bride and, most recently, Friendly Fire. He used to teach comparative literature at Haifa University and is a recipient of the Israel Prize, his country's highest civilian honour

Michael Young

Michael Young is opinion page editor of the Lebanon Daily Star and a contributing editor at Reason magazine.

Adam Zamoyski

Adam Zamoyski is the author of many books, including Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon & the Congress of Vienna. His new book Chopin: The Prince of the Romantics is published next February

Adam Zeman

Adam Zeman is Professor of Cognitive and Behavioural Neurology at the Peninsular School of Medicine, and the author of A Portrait of the Brain.