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Sophie Elmhirst is a journalist living in London. She writes regularly for the Guardian’s Long Read, the Economist’s 1843 magazine and The Gentlewoman, among others.

• Tampon wars: the battle to overthrow the Tampax empire
• ‘You have to take action’: one hospital cleaner’s journey through the pandemic
• The battle over birth

Sarah Churchwell is Professor of American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London and a regular contributor to newspapers including the Guardian, New Statesman, Financial Times, Times Literary Supplement and New York Times Book Review. Her most recent book is Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream (2018).

• White Lies Matter
• American Fascism: It Has Happened Here
• The Return of American Fascism
• Can American Democracy Survive Donald Trump?

Ciaran Jenkins is the Scotland Correspondent for Channel 4 News. He is known for robust interviews and breaking stories, including several important investigations. He joined Channel 4 News in 2012 and has reported from around the world. He is from Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales and now lives in Glasgow.

• Care workers thrust into frontline – protecting most vulnerable
• Woman dies after ‘refused admission’ to hospital
• Carers in Scotland not eligible for death in service payment
• Has lack of testing made care homes vulnerable to COVID-19?

Bellingcat is making open-source and data-driven investigations, that in recent years have uncovered multiple crimes and clandestine operations throughout the world. Our Russian probes are led by Christo Grozev, who alongside Aric Toler, Pieter van Huis, Roman Dobrokhotov and Yordan Tsalov, revealed Kremlin’s involvement in the Navalny poisoning, Russia’s Clandestine Chemical Weapons Programme and many assassinations conducted by the country’s security services.

• FSB Team of Chemical Weapon Experts Implicated in Alexey Navalny Novichok Poisoning
• Russia’s Clandestine Chemical Weapons Programme
• FSB Officer Inadvertently Confesses Murder Plot to Navalny
• Hunting the Hunters: How We Identified Navalny’s FSB Stalkers

Jack Shenker is a London-based journalist who writes about how power works and how it gets subverted – particularly by those on the margins – as well as anything else that springs to mind. His latest book is ‘Now We Have Your Attention’, published by The Bodley Head and Vintage. www.jackshenker.net

• Death at the ministry
• This photo of children living in poverty caused shock waves in 1992. Where are they now?
• Conversations with Stuart Hall: Unravelling and Resistance

Tom McTague grew up in County Durham. His first job in journalism was at the Independent on Sunday, where he later returned as political editor. He’s a staff writer at The Atlantic and co-authored the 2017 election book, Betting the House. He lives in London with his wife and two children.

• Britain’s Brexit Struggle Was Balancing Influence and Control
• The Decline of the American World
• How the Pandemic Revealed Britain’s National Illness

Nesrine Malik is a columnist and features writer for The Guardian. Her work focuses on British politics and global movements for social inclusion. She is the author of We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind our Age of Discontent.

• After this crisis, remember the NHS is not drained by migrants, but sustained by them
• Foreign NHS workers are risking their lives for us – and paying for the privilege
• Fighting the racism that killed George Floyd requires more than hashtags
• For a few weeks, black lives mattered. Now what?

Matthew d’Ancona is an Editor and Partner at Tortoise Media, and a columnist for the Evening Standard. He was Deputy Editor of The Sunday Telegraph before becoming editor of The Spectator in 2006. His latest book is Identity, Ignorance, Innovation (Hodder). He was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, in 1989.

• Sick Man
• The BBC is Back
• The Future of the Opposition

Matthew Parris is a former MP and a prize winning author, columnist and broadcaster. He currently writes columns for The Times and the Spectator as well as presenting the BBC Radio 4 biographical programme Great Lives. He was named Political Journalist of the Year at the Press Awards 2015.

Few dare say it but knife crime is a fashion

• https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/few-dare-say-it-but-knife-crime-is-a-fashion-3fwgzlhhz

We shouldn’t take such offence at prejudice

• https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/we-shouldnt-take-such-offence-at-prejudice-q79f06s2m

All ages are gullible – including our own

• https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/10/all-ages-are-gullible-including-our-own/

Zak’s muddy boots journalism is inspired by writers like George Orwell. He tries to shine a light on injustice by getting as close to the story as possible. Whether he’s investigating modern slavery in British businesses or deaths on the $15bn Istanbul Airport project.

Life ‘in the cemetery’ – Uncovering Istanbul Airport’s dirty secrets

• https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/agenda/investigations/life-cemetery-uncovering-istanbul-airports-dirty-secrets-10-10-2019/

Slavery in the supply chain: A CN investigation

• https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/agenda/investigations/slavery-supply-chain-cn-investigation-16-09-2019/

Carillion’s silent victims: The dangers of speaking out

• https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/contractors/carillion/carillions-silent-victims-the-dangers-of-speaking-out-15-01-2019/