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David Gardner is the FT‘s international affairs editor and author of Last Chance: The Middle East in the Balance. He was the paper’s Middle East editor from 1995-99. In 2003 he won the David Watt prize for political journalism for his writing on the Arab world.
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Philip Collins is a columnist and leader writer for The Times. He is also the chair of the board of trustees at the independent think tank Demos and a visiting fellow in the public policy unit at the University of Oxford. Before joining The Times he was the Chief Speech Writer for the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, the Director of the Social Market Foundation think tank and an Equity Strategist at two investment banks.
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David Cohen is the chief feature writer at the Evening Standard.
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Rory Carroll is south America correspondent for The Guardian. His submitted articles were published by The Guardian and The Observer.
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Submitted articles published by The Guardian and the London Review of Books. Jonathan Steele is a Guardian columnist, roving foreign correspondent and author. He was The Guardian’s bureau chief in Washington (1975 to 1979) and Moscow (1988 to 1994). In the 80s he reported from southern Africa, central America, Afghanistan, and Eastern Europe. In the 90s he covered Kosovo and the Balkans. Since 9/11 he has reported from Afghanistan and Iraq as well as on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. He has written several books on international affairs, including books on South Africa, Germany, eastern Europe, and Russia, including most recently Defeat: Why They Lost Iraq.
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Catherine Mayer is London Bureau Chief for TIME, covering the U.K. and Ireland, as well as Germany and wider European themes and subjects. She has also worked as Senior Editor for TIME Europe, Middle East and Africa. In November 2010, Mayer received an award for Story of the Year at the 2010 Foreign Press Association Media Awards for her cover story on British Prime Minister David Cameron’s first official visit to the U.S. She has previously worked for Focus magazine, Germany’s leading news weekly; International Management, the journal of European Business; Business Traveller magazine; and The Economist. Her book Amortality: The Pleasures and Perils of Living Agelessly will be published by Vermilion, an imprint of Random House, in May 2011.
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Former editor of The Specator magazine and the Sunday Telegraph newspaper, Dominic Lawson who is noted for his robust and iconoclastic opinions on political and social issue, has been writing a column for The Independent since 2006. He also writes for the Sunday Times.
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The sin of the rich is to seem happy
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Submitted articles published by The Guardian, The Observer and Granta. Declan Walsh is The Guardian’s foreign correspondent for Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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Submitted articles published by Prospect, Guernica, The Observer, The Guardian and the New Statesman. Jack Shenker is a London-born journalist who reports for The Guardian from Egypt. His work has covered India and Nepal, Central Asia, the Balkans, the US and Gaza, and has been published in a wide range of magazines and newspapers across the globe – including The Times, The Independent, the New Statesman and Monocle. He is currently based in Cairo and London.
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Dam Dilemma
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Rachel Shabi was born in Israel to Iraqi Jews and grew up in England. A journalist, she has written for a variety of national and international newspapers such as The Guardian, the Sunday Times, the New Statesman, the Independent on Sunday, Al-Jazeera English online, the National, Jane’s and Salon.com. For the past five years she has been based in Israel and reporting on the Middle East conflict. Her book, Not the Enemy: Israel’s Jews from Arab Lands, was published by Yale University Press in 2009.
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Gideon Rachman became chief foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times in July 2006. He joined the FT after a 15-year career at The Economist, which included spells as a foreign correspondent in Brussels, Washington and Bangkok. He also edited The Economist’s business and Asia sections. His particular interests include American foreign policy, the European Union and globalisation. He is the author of Zero-Sum World, published by Atlantic Books in November 2010.
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Submitted articles published by Standpoint, The Spectator, Literary Review and Wall Street Journal Europe. Douglas Murray is a bestselling author and political commentator, and director of the Centre for Social Cohesion. He is the co-author of ‘Hate on the State: How British Libraries encourage Islamic Extremism’ and ‘Victims of Intimidation: Freedom of Speech within Europe’s Muslim Communities.’ His books include Neoconservatism: Why We Need It. Murray regularly appears in the British and foreign press and media. A columnist for Standpoint magazine, he writes for a variety of other publications, including the Sunday Times, Spectator and Wall Street Journal. He blogs at the Daily Telegraph.
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Mary Riddell is an assistant editor of the Daily Telegraph, where she is a columnist and political interviewer. A former deputy editor of Today, she has written for a number of national newspapers, including The Observer, on social, constitutional and foreign affairs, as well as covering criminal justice and Westminster politics. Her writing awards include Interviewer of the Year in the British Press Awards and a commendation in the feature-writing category. She has twice been named legal journalist of the year by the Bar Council and has previously been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism (2008).
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David Reynolds was shortlisted for a series of pieces on America, Empire of Liberty on BBC Radio 4 and BBC News Online. The Professor of International History at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Christ’s College, he is a regular visitor to the United States and has held visiting university appointments at Harvard, Nebraska and Oklahoma.
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Catherine Philp is diplomatic correspondent for The Times. She has specialised in conflict, with ten years spent based overseas, covering wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, East Timor, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Cambodia, Indonesia, Darfur, Congo and Zimbabwe.
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Robert Verkaik is the home affairs editor and law editor for The Independent. Before joining The Independent around 10 years ago, he was a court reporter.
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Arkady Ostrovsky is the Moscow Bureau Chief for The Economist, and his longlisted entry also includes work from Foreign Policy. He has also written for other publications including the Financial Times, Prospect and the Los Angeles Times.
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