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Kim Sengupta

Kim Sengupta is the Defence and Diplomatic Correspondent of The Independent. He covers international and domestic news and his extensive reporting from around the world has included many of the major conflicts in recent times.

Submitted articles

‘You can only patch up people for so long. Most of the seriously injured we can’t save. The only way to end this is to defeat Assad’
‘What will happen to us?’: Loyalists fear rebel attacks
The people who live here have fled. Only the fighters remain
‘We left Homs because they were trying to kill us. They wanted to kill us because we are Christians’
US ‘was warned but did nothing’
Misrata speaks: No more Gaddafis

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Kim Sengupta on Journalisted

David Gardner

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.

Submitted articles

The seismic tussles that will shape the Middle East
Lebanon can overcome its divisions to deter Syria
Assads regime is finished do not mourn its passing
Febrile and fragmented
Hollow victory
Autonomy under fire

David Cohen

David Cohen is the chief feature writer at the Evening Standard.

Submitted articles

A generation of young Londoners with no job, no prospects and no hope
A degree in architecture … but all I can get are menial jobs
‘If my failure to get a job is because of racial bias, it shouldn’t be ignored’
Ladder for London: The Evening Standard’s campaign to help the young and unemployed
I was rejected as a Sainsbury’s shelf-stacker, now I run the company
Prince Andrew joins our Ladder for London campaign

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David Cohen on Journalisted

Jamil Anderlini

Jamil Anderlini is the Beijing bureau chief for the FT and has been a correspondent covering China since 2003.

Submitted articles

Corrupt party displays classic signs of dynasty in slow decline
China’s ever greater expectations
‘China will see democracy’
Bo Xilal: Power, death and politics
Chinese infighting: Secrets of a succession war (£)
The family fortunes of Beijing’s new few

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Jamil Anderlini on Journalisted

Clive Stafford Smith

In 1986, Kris Maharaj, a British businessman living in Miami, was arrested for the brutal murder of two ex-business associates. His lawyer did not present a strong alibi; Kris was found guilty and sentenced to death in the electric chair. 



It wasn’t until a young lawyer working for nothing, Clive Stafford Smith, took on his case that strong evidence began to emerge that the state of Florida had got the wrong man on Death Row. So far, so good – except that, as Stafford Smith argues here so compellingly, the American justice system is actually designed to ignore innocence. Twenty-six years later, Maharaj is still in jail. 



Step by step, Stafford Smith untangles the Maharaj case and the system that makes disasters like this inevitable. His conclusions will act as a wake-up call for those who condone legislation which threatens basic human rights and, at the same time, the personal story he tells demonstrates that determination can challenge the institutions that surreptitiously threaten our freedom.

Taken from Random House

Abigail Haworth

Abigail Haworth is an Asia-based senior international editor at Marie Claire USA. She covers global women’s issues, sex, society and regularly contributes to The Observer Magazine. In 2010 Abigail won the Overseas Press Club Award.

Articles submitted

From war babies to Billionaires
Sex, drugs and shattered skulls
15 in a billion
The day I saw 248 girls being circumcised
The Help
Where the boys are

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Abigail Haworth on Twitter

Marie Colvin

A fearless, passionate veteran reporter of conflicts from around the world, Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin was killed in February 2012, covering the uprising in Syria from the besieged city of Homs. On the Front Line is a collection of her finest work, a portion of the proceeds from which will go to the Marie Colvin Memorial Fund.

Marie Colvin held a profound belief in the pursuit of truth, and the courage and humanity of her work was deeply admired. On the Front Line includes her various interviews with Yasser Arafat and Colonel Gadaffi; reports from East Timor in 1999 where she shamed the UN into protecting its refugees; accounts of her terrifying escape from the Russian army in Chechnya; and reports from the strongholds of the Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers where she was hit by shrapnel, leaving her blind in one eye.

Typically, however, her new eye-patch only reinforced Colvin’s sense of humour and selfless conviction. She returned quickly to the front line, reporting on 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza and, lately, the Arab Spring.

Immediate and compelling, On the Front Line is a street-view of the historic events that have shaped the last 25 years, from an award-winning foreign correspondent and the outstanding journalist of her generation.

Taken from HarperCollins

Clare Sambrook

Clare Sambrook is a freelance, and a current contributor to openDemocracy, Private Eye and The Guardian.
In 2010 Clare won both the Paul Foot Award and the Bevins Prize for outstanding investigative journalism for her work exposing government attempts to mislead Parliament and the public about the forcible arrest and detention of asylum-seeking families. With six friends she co-founded the citizens’ campaign End Child Detention Now.
Her acclaimed debut novel, Hide & Seek, came out in more than a dozen languages in 2005, becoming a New York Times editor’s choice and a Daily Mail book club selection.

Submitted articles

The UK Border Agency’s long, punitive campaign against children (helped by G4S and Serco)
How many children secretly deported under UK Border Agency’s Gentleman’s Agreement?
UK policymaking outsourced: the curious case of adoption reform
Corporate Power stamps its brand on British Policing
Who should investigate murder — the police, or a private security company?
A child, a bleeding anus, interrogation by the UK Border Agency

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Clare Sambrook on Twitter

Richard Holloway

At fourteen, Richard Holloway left his home in the Vale of Leven, north of Glasgow, and travelled hundreds of miles to be educated and trained for the priesthood by a religious order in an English monastery. By twenty-five he had been ordained and was working in the slums of Glasgow. Throughout the following forty years, Richard touched the lives of many people in the Church and in the wider community. But behind his confident public face lay a restless, unquiet heart and a constantly searching mind.

Why is the Church, which claims to be the instrument of God’s love, so prone to cruelty and condemnation? And how can a man live with the tension between public faith and private doubt?

In his long-awaited memoir, Richard seeks to answer these questions and to explain how, after many crises of faith, he finally and painfully left the Church. It is a wise, poetic and fiercely honest book.

Taken from Canongate

Carmen Bugan

One quiet day when her mother was away from home, Carmen Bugan’s father put on his best suit and drove into Bucharest to stage a one-man protest against Ceauşescu. He had been typing pamphlets on an illegal typewriter and burying it in the garden each morning under his daughter’s bedroom window. This is the story of what happened to Carmen and her family, isolated and under surveillance in their beloved village home. It is an intimate piece of our recent history, the testimony of an extraordinary childhood left abruptly behind. Above all, it is a luminous, compassionate, and unflinchingly honest book about the price of courage, the pain of exile, and the power of memory.

Ian Cobain

Ian Cobain has been a journalist since the early 1980s. He is a senior reporter on the Guardian. His inquiries into the UK’s involvement in torture since 9/11 have won a number of major awards, including the Martha Gellhorn Prize and the Paul Foot Award for investigative journalism. He has also won several Amnesty International media awards. His first book, Cruel Britannia was released last year.

Submitted articles

RAF helicopter death revelation leads to secret Iraq detention camp
How secret renditions shed light on MI6’s licence to kill and torture
Rendition ordeal that raises new questions about secret trials
Army ‘waterboarding victim’ who spent 17 years in jail is cleared of murder
Northern Ireland loyalist shootings: one night of carnage, 18 years of silence

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Ian Cobain on Twitter
Ian Cobain on Journalisted

Raja Shehadeh

It is often the smallest details of daily life that tell us the most. And so it is under occupation in Palestine. What most of us take for granted has to be carefully thought about and planned for: When will the post be allowed to get through? Will there be enough water for the bath tonight? How shall I get rid of the rubbish collecting outside? How much time should I allow for the journey to visit my cousin, going through checkpoints? And big questions too: Is working with left-wing Israelis collaborating or not? What affect will the Arab Spring have on the future of Palestine? What can anyone do to bring about change? Are any of life’s pleasures untouched by politics?

Taken from Profile Books

Chrystia Freeland

The rich really are different …

There has always been some gap between rich and poor, but it has never been wider – and now the rich are getting wealthier at such breakneck speed that the middle classes are being squeezed out. While the wealthiest 10% of Americans, for example, receive half the nation’s income, the real money flows even higher up, in the top 0.1%. As a transglobal class of highly successful professionals, these self-made oligarchs often have more in common with one another than with their own countrymen. But how is this happening, and who are the people making it happen?

Chrystia Freeland, acclaimed business journalist and Global Editor-at-Large of Reuters, has unprecedented access to the richest and most successful people on the planet, from Davos to Dubai, and dissects their lives with intelligence, empathy and objectivity. Pacily written and powerfully researched, Plutocrats could not provide a more timely insight into the current state of Capitalism and its most wealthy players.

Taken from Penguin

Daniel Finkelstein

Daniel Finkelstein is a weekly columnist and Chief Leader Writer of The Times. Before joining the paper in 2001, he was adviser to both Prime Minister John Major and Conservative leader William Hague. Daniel was named Political Commentator of the Year at the Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards 2011.
Taken from The Times


Articles submitted

Hitch was wrong. Liberty depends on stability (£)

We’ve been isolated for 20 years. Get used to it (£)

We’re as angry with welfare cheats as bankers (£)

No triumph over Schalit, just more sorrow (£)

Ed can do nothing about his two fatal flaws (£)

Peace and freedom: the blessings of capitalism (£)


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Daniel Finkelstein on Journalisted
Daniel Finkelstein on Twitter

Sonia Purnell

A major and controversial new biography of one of the most compelling and contradictory figures in modern British life. Born Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, to most of us he is just ‘Boris’ – the only politician of the age to be regarded in such familiar, even affectionate terms. Uniquely, he combines comedy with erudition, gimleteyed focus with jokey self-deprecation, and is a loving family man with a roving eye. He is also a hugely ambitious figure with seemingly no huge ambitions to pursue – other than, perhaps, power itself. One of the most private men in public life, we all know of Boris, but so few can truly claim to know him. He invites attention, but has evaded scrutiny. Now, from the vantage point of a once close colleague, Sonia Purnell charts his remarkable rise and offers the first forensic account of just how he did it. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Boris’s friends, rivals, admirers and enemies, this revealing biography examines how a shy, young boy from a broken home grew up to be ou r only box-office politician – and most unlikely sex god; how the Etonian product fond of Latin tags became a Man of the People – and why he wanted to be; how the gaffe-prone buffoon charmed Londoners to win the largest personal mandate Britain has ever seen; and how the Johnson family has built our biggest – not to mention blondest – media and political dynasty. At times, allegations of infidelity, journalistic chicanery, rivalries with fellow Tories and scandal at City Hall have threatened to upset his rise, but still it continues. With his unruly mop of hair, trusty bicycle and the surest of popular touches, he remains a Teflon-coated breed apart – but for how long? In Just Boris Sonia Purnell unravels this most compelling of political enigmas and casts light on his record and his character. Finally, she asks whether the Mayor who dreams of crossing the Thames to Downing Street has what it takes to be Prime Minister.

Peter Oborne

Longlisted for articles published by The Spectator and Daily Telegraph and broadcast by Channel 4

Peter Oborne is a journalist and author who joined The Telegraph in 2010 after writing for some years for the Daily Mail. He has also written for Prospect, The Observer, The Independent, the Evening Standard and the Sunday Mirror. His books include The Rise of Political Lying and The Triumph of the Political Class, and biographies of Alastair Campbell and Basil D’Oliveira, the latter being named the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2004.




Submitted articles

The great euro swindle

What the papers won’t say

The moral decay of our society is as bad at the top as the bottom

Baroness Warsi was right to speak out: Hatred of Muslims is one of the last bastions of British bigotry

Russia: Vlad’s Army


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Peter Oborne on Journalisted

Siddhartha Deb

From leadership seminars in fancy hotels to medieval figures walking from town to town looking for work in small town factories; from the naïve waitresses working in the mecca of five star hotels to farmers struggling to grow the right crops for the 21st century, Siddhartha Deb’s book is the riveting, moving, darkly comic, brilliantly told story of modern India.
With the novelist’s vision, reminiscent of V.S. Naipaul’s An Area of Darkness, combined with the modern narrative force of Maximum City, Deb’s account paints a portrait of this country in turmoil through the story of its people: aspiring and deluded, desperate and hopeful, beautiful and damned.

Taken from Penguin Books