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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. Her new novel Anyone's Game is out now. German art features in her work-in-progress, A Shoe Story.

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 honorary chairman of the Freedom Association. His latest book is Money in a Free Society (Encounter).

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.