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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 in 2010. In May 2012, his new Violin Concerto - written for Vadim Repin - received its global premiere. 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. His edition of Hobbe's Leviathan is out now (OUP, 2012). 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 and A History of the World. 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 and The Levelling Sea. He lives in Cornwall.

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 commentator who contributes to the Daily Telegraph, Sunday telegraph and 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 and presents the arts programme Night Waves on BBC Radio 3. 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

Jeffrey Meyers

Jeffrey Meyers is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has written biographies of Orwell, Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald. His latest book is The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe (University of Illinois Press). 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 was Conservative parliamentary candidate for Bermondsey and Old Southwark at the 2010 General Election. Formerly a Sunday Express journalist and Voice columnist, she has a degree in political science and directs the Conservative Co-operative Movement. 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.

James Mumford

James Mumford writes both fiction and non-fiction. His book Ethics at the Beginning of Life is published in June 2013 by OUP.

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.