Category: Long listsTTTT

Mary Beard

Posted on October 17, 2010 by - Long lists

Mary Beard is a wickedly subversive commentator on both the modern and the ancient world. She is a professor in classics at Cambridge and classics editor of the TLS.

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Anna Chen

Posted on October 17, 2010 by - Long lists, Short lists

Performer, writer, broadcaster and blogger.

Madam Miaow casts a sharp eye over the political and cultural landscape and takes a scalpel and a shotgun to the guilty parties.

“Just imagine, the whole place being upset by one little Chinese girl in the scullery.” (Piccadilly, 1929)

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Laurie Penny

Posted on October 17, 2010 by - Long lists, Short lists

Shortlisted for blogposts published at Penny Red, LabourList, The Huffington Post, The F-Word, Liberal Conspiracy and Comment is Free.

A socialist, feminist, deviant, reprobate, queer, journalist, aspiring author, freelance copywriter and sometime blogger. She lives with toast-eating pagans in a little house somewhere in London out of a small red suitcase, smoking and drinking and plotting to subtly re-arrange the world to suit her ideals. Consumes too much tea. Regrets nothing.

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David Allen Green

Posted on October 17, 2010 by - Long lists, Short lists

My name is David Allen Green, and I am a lawyer and writer living in London.

This is my personal blog. It is named after a medieval folklore hero – a wizard that bested the devil. The blog became well-known for its detailed and accessible coverage of the libel case brought against Simon Singh by the British Chiropractic Association, 2008-10.

However, this blog covers many other legal and policy areas, usually from a liberal and critical perspective. It is not a party-political or partisan blog.

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Iain Dale

Posted on October 17, 2010 by - Long lists

Iain Dale is one of Britain’s leading political commentators, appearing regularly on TV and radio. Iain is best known for his political blog, Iain Dale’s Diary, and football blog, West Ham Till I Die. He is a contributing editor and columnist for GQ Magazine, writes for the Daily Telegraph and a fortnightly diary for the Eastern Daily Press. He was the chief anchor of Britain’s first political internet TV channel, 18 Doughty Street.com and is a presenter on LBC Radio. He appears regularly as a political pundit on Sky News, the BBC News Channel, Newsnight, Radio 4 and Radio 5 Live. He is the publisher of the monthly magazine, Total Politics and the author or editor of more than twenty books. He is managing director of Biteback Publishing.

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  • Iain Dale’s Diary
  • Iain Dale, Peter Hitchens and Ed Vaizey, ‘What is the big Conservative idea?’ at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2009

Hopi Sen

Posted on October 17, 2010 by - Long lists, Short lists

My name is Hopi Sen. Really.

Escaping a lucrative career in advertising (which ended when I saw a lifetime of Daz adverts stretching before me and resigned in panic) I started work for the Labour party as the Northern region press officer in 2000. After the 2001 election I moved to Party HQ, before becoming the head of campaigns at the Parliamentary Labour Party. I had various stints on by-elections and General Elections- like working as a press officer to the Leader of the party during the 2005 campaign, a job that mostly involved feeding journalists chocolate and offending Quentin Letts.

For six years I was one of those people who are occasionally glimpsed in the background of a photo-op, looking stressed in a cheap suit and in all likelihood sweating profusely. We’re a noble and maligned breed. Now I’ve escaped.

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  • Hopi Sen
  • Hopi Sen, Jo Glanville and Maajid Nawaz, ‘1984: Thoughtcrime’, Orwell Festival 2009

Gideon Rachman

Posted on October 17, 2010 by - Long lists

This blog covers a variety of topics from US foreign policy to European politics and the Middle East – and whatever else happens to be in the news or catch my attention. I joined the FT as chief foreign affairs commentator in 2006, after a 15-year career at The Economist which included stints as a correspondent in Brussels, Bangkok and Washington. I write a weekly column on foreign affairs, which appears in the paper on Tuesdays.

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David Smith

Posted on October 17, 2010 by - Long lists

David Smith writes on his personal experiences as The Guardian’s Africa correspondent and gives his own take on events across the continent.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/27/south-africa-election-anc

David Osler

Posted on October 17, 2010 by - Long lists

Likely to touch on politics, business, economics, and music from punk rock to hard drivin’ rhythm & blues.

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Robert Verkaik

Posted on October 17, 2010 by - Long lists

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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Mary Riddell

Posted on October 17, 2010 by - Long lists

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

Posted on October 17, 2010 by - Long lists, Short lists

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

Posted on October 17, 2010 by - Long lists

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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Arkady Ostrovsky

Posted on October 15, 2010 by - Long lists

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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Cathy Newman

Posted on October 15, 2010 by - Long lists

Cathy joined Channel 4 News as political correspondent in January 2006 – the first on-screen newcomer to the political team for 11 years – and works alongside political editor Gary Gibbon. Since joining, Cathy’s scoops have included the revelation that five illegal immigrants worked at the Home Office, and Gordon Brown insisting on a knighthood for his ally, the Labour donor Sir Ronald Cohen.

Prior to arriving at Channel 4 News, Cathy worked as chief political correspondent for the Financial Times for three years. Before that she covered politics and media for the FT.

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  • Exclusive: MoD Cuts
  • Exclusive: Stonewall pulls out of Tory gay pride
  • Exclusive: Mandelson ‘chumps’ doorstep
  • Exclusive: Resignation of Eric Joyce
  • Exclusive: Tory chairman only picks ‘attractive’ women
  • Exclusive: Leak of Bernard Gray report on MoD waste

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Hamish McRae

Posted on October 15, 2010 by - Long lists, Short lists

One of the country’s most respected financial journalists and commentators, Hamish McRae is an associate editor of The Independent. He was named Business and Finance Journalist of the Year 2006 at the British Press Awards.

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Anthony Loyd

Posted on October 15, 2010 by - Long lists, Short lists

Anthony Loyd is a war correspondent who writes regularly for The Times and contributes to other publications, including Standpoint. He has written two books about his experiences in war zones in Chechnya, Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq: My War Gone by, I Miss it So and Another Bloody Love Letter.

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Paul Lewis

Posted on October 15, 2010 by - Long lists, Short lists

Paul Lewis is Special Projects Editor for The Guardian. He was named Reporter of the Year at the British Press Awards 2010 and won the 2009 Bevins Prize for outstanding investigative journalism. He previously worked at the Washington Post as the Stern Fellow.

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