One of the nation’s most uncompromising literary voices, DBC Pierre is author of the novels Vernon God Little, Ludmila’s Broken English and Lights Out In Wonderland, plus the picture book for distracted adults Petit Mal and the Hammer novella Breakfast With The Borgias. The novel Vernon God Little sold in 43 territories and won the Man Booker Prize, the Whitbread … Read More

Dan Saladino is a food journalist and presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme. He honed his journalistic skills on Radio 4’s investigative series Face the Facts before specialising in food and farming stories more than a decade ago. Dan is listed in the ‘Progress 1000: The Evening Standard’s Most Influential People in Food and Drink’, The Telegraph’s Food … Read More

With a career spanning over thirty years, Colm Meaney has appeared in a library of much acclaimed films, from CON AIR and KINGS to GET HIM TO THE GREEK. He played Martin McGuinness in THE JOURNEY opposite Timothy Spall’s Ian Paisley and appears alongside Nicholas Hoult in the biopic TOLKIEN and with Kristen Stewart in SEBERG. Other film work includes … Read More

Colin Greenwood is the bassist of Radiohead. He reviews non-fiction for The Spectator and has recently been working with Belgian/Egyptian singer-songwriter Tamino.

Charlie Gilmour’s writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Evening Standard, VICE, and Vogue. His critically acclaimed memoir, Featherhood, was published in the UK in 2020 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson and has been translated into several languages. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.

Growing up in the apartheid ghetto of Khayelitsha in Cape Town, Bulelani Mfaco became involved at an early age in protests for adequate housing & access to land with Abahlali BaseMjondolo, health care in the Khayelitsha Health Forum, and campaigning for improved policing with neighbourhood watches. In  2017 he claimed asylum, seeking protection from violence and targeted killings of LGBT+ … Read More

Anne Applebaum is a journalist, a prize-winning historian, a staff writer for The Atlantic and a senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where she co-leads a project on 21st century disinformation and co-teaches a course on democracy. Her books include Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine; Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956; and … Read More