Contributors

Sarah Boseley was named health journalist of the year at the 2020 Press Awards for her coverage of the pandemic

Michael Brearley is a former England cricket captain and psychoanalyst

Kate Clanchy works as a teacher, journalist and freelance writer. “Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me” (Picador) won the Orwell Prize for political writing in 2020

Richard Dawkins was the Simonyi professor for the public understanding of science at Oxford from 1995 to 2008

Gérard Errera was French ambassador to the UK from 2002 to 2007

Cal Flyn’s “Islands of Abandonment” (William Collins) was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize

Miranda France is a writer and translator

Julian Glover led the Landscapes Review for the government. He is the author of “Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain” (Bloomsbury)

Alice Goodman is a poet, librettist and Anglican priest in Cambridgeshire

Priyamvada Gopal is a teaching fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge. “Insurgent Empire” is out from Verso

Dominic Grieve was attorney general from 2010 to 2014

Sheila Hancock is an actor and writer

Robert Hutton is a political journalist and author

Rebecca Lawrence, who is bipolar, is a consultant psychiatrist working in Scotland

Alan Lockey is head of the Future of Work programme at the Royal Society of Arts

Bill McKibben is founder and senior adviser emeritus of 350.org

Kate Maltby is a critic, columnist and scholar

Tom Martin has a mixed arable and sheep farm in East Anglia

Jane Martinson is Marjorie Deane professor of financial journalism at City University

Kate Molleson presents Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music Matters

Joyce Carol Oates is a novelist, critic, playwright and poet

Sarah Ogilvie is a linguist, lexicographer and computer scientist based at Oxford

Fintan O’Toole is a columnist at the Irish Times and author of “Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain” (Apollo)

Ian Rankin’s most recent Rebus thriller is “A Song for the Dark Times” (Orion)

Jonathan Rée is a freelance philosopher and the author of “Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English” (Penguin)

Sukhdev Sandhu runs the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture at New York University

Serena Smith is a freelance journalist based in Leeds

Kathleen Stock is the author of “Material Girls” (Fleet)

Deyan Sudjic was director of the Design Museum from 2006 to 2020

Jason Thomas-Fournillier is an asylum seeker living in Doncaster

Imogen West-Knights’s first novel, “Deep Down” (Fleet), comes out in spring 2023

Robin White is a barrister at Old Square Chambers

Max Wind-Cowie is head of the Progressive Conservatism Project at Demos

Jeanette Winterson’s latest book is “12 Bytes” (Cape)

Philip Wood teaches at Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in London

Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014

Ethan Zuckerman is the founder of the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at the University of Michigan