Contributors

Peter Blegvad teaches Creative Writing at Warwick University. Joseph Bottum is a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard and a former editor of First Things. Michael Burleigh is Professor of History at the University of Buckingham and author of Moral Combat: A History of World War II, published by HarperPress. Nick Cohen is a columnist for the Observer. Tim Congdon is an economist and CEO of International Monetary Research Ltd. 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. Mara Delius writes for the culture section of Die Welt. Jessica Duchen is a music journalist, biographer and novelist. She blogs on music at standpointmag.co.uk/jessica-duchen Stephen Fay is a writer on cricket and a former editor of Wisden Cricket Monthly. Patrick Heren is a journalist who specialises in competitive energy markets. He is the founder of Heren Energy (now ICIS Heren). Karen Horn is an economist, author and director of the Berlin office of the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft, an economic research institute. Paul Johnson’s latest book is Humourists: From Hogarth to Noël Coward, published in the US by HarperCollins. His biography of Socrates will be published later this year by Penguin US. Peter Jones helped found Friends of Classics and the fund-raising charity Classics for All. His latest book is Vote for Caesar (Orion). 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). Sheila Lawlor is director of the think-tank Politeia. Her next book will be on the politics of post-war social policy. Dominic Lawson is a columnist for the Sunday Times and the Independent. Nigel Lawson is chairman of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (www.the gwpf.org). He is author of An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming and a new abridged version of his Memoirs of a Tory Radical is out in paperback, published by Biteback. Laura Marsh is a graduate of Christ Church, Oxford, and a winner of the London Review of Books Young Reviewers Competition 2010. Minette Marrin is a writer, broadcaster and columnist for the Sunday Times. Douglas Murray is the director of the Centre for Social Cohesion. Eric Ormsby’s latest book of prose is Fine Incisions: Essays on Poetry and Place (The

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Porcupine’s Quill). A new selection of his poems will appear from Carcanet this year. Emanuele Ottolenghi is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defence of Democracies. Gwyn Prins is a research professor at the LSE. He was a Visiting Senior Fellow in the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency and special adviser to the Nato Secretary General. Michael Prodger is literary editor of the Sunday Telegraph. Andrew Roberts is an historian. His latest book is The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War (Penguin). Mark Ronan is Honorary Professor of Mathematics at University College London and author of Symmetry and the Monster. Joshua Rozenberg  presents Law in Action on BBC Radio 4. He chairs Halsbury’s Law Exchange, an independent legal think-tank. Neil Scolding is the Burden Professor of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Bristol and Director of the Burden Neurological Institute. Simon Scott Plummer is a freelance journalist and former leader writer on the Daily Telegraph. Lionel Shriver’s latest novel, So Much for That, was shortlisted in the fiction section of the 2010 National Book Awards, America’s leading book prize. Nick Spencer is Research Director for the think-tank Theos. His forthcoming book, Freedom and Order: Politics, History and the English Bible will be published by Hodder and Stoughton in May. Berenika Stefanska is a freelance writer based in Germany and Africa. Geza Vermes FBA is Professor Emeritus in Jewish Studies at Oxford University. His latest book, Jesus in the Jewish World, is published in paperback by SCM Press, London. Daisy Waugh writes novels and two columns in the Sunday Times. Peter Whittle is Standpoint’s film critic and director of the New Culture Forum. Jamie Whyte is the head of research at the consulting firm Oliver Wyman. David Womersley is the Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford.

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