{"id":750,"date":"2019-09-19T14:30:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T14:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/2019\/09\/19\/contributors\/"},"modified":"2019-09-19T14:30:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T14:30:33","slug":"contributors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ondrocks2000.com\/standpoint\/2019\/09\/19\/contributors\/","title":{"rendered":"Contributors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ross Babbage<\/b> served for 16 years in Australian government positions. He is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) in Washington DC.<\/p>\n

Joan Bakewell<\/b> is a Labour peer, journalist and broadcaster. A new edition of her autobiography The Centre of the Bed<\/i> is published in November by Sceptre. <\/p>\n

Nigel Biggar<\/b> is Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford. He is the author of In Defence of War <\/i>(Oxford).<\/p>\n

Grace Blakeley<\/b> is economics commentator at the New Statesman<\/i> and author of Stolen: How finance took control of our economy and corrupted our politics <\/i>(Repeater Books).<\/p>\n

Christopher Bray<\/b> is the author of 1965: The Year Modern Britain was Born <\/i>(Simon & Schuster) and a film critic for the Mail on Sunday.<\/i><\/p>\n

Oliver Bullough<\/b> is the author of Moneyland<\/i> (Profile Books), which was shortlisted for the 2019 Orwell Prize for political writing. <\/p>\n

Nick Cohen<\/b> is an Observer<\/i> columnist and author of What\u2019s Left? How the Left lost its way<\/i> (Harper Perennial).<\/p>\n

David Coleman<\/b> is Professor Emeritus in Demography at Oxford University.<\/p>\n

Marie Le Conte<\/b>, a political journalist, is the author of Haven\u2019t You Heard? Gossip, Power and How Politics Really Works <\/i>(Blink Publishing), published this month.<\/p>\n

Theodore Dalrymple<\/b> worked for many years as a prison doctor. His latest book is False Positive: A Year of Error, Omission, and Political Correctness in the New England Journal of Medicine <\/i>(Encounter Books).<\/p>\n

John Fuller<\/b> is a poet, novelist and literary critic. His most recent collection is Double Dactyls<\/i> (Shoestring Press).<\/p>\n

Jonathan Gaisman<\/b> is a QC practising in commercial law. He used to preside over criminal trials as a Crown Court recorder.<\/p>\n

Chris Gunness<\/b> hosts the podcast MusicPlus for Classical Music <\/i>magazine. He is a former spokesman for the UNRWA.<\/p>\n

Stephen Hough<\/b> is a classical pianist, composer and writer. His essay collection Rough Ideas <\/i>is published by Faber and his five-concert residency at Wigmore Hall begins on December 5. <\/p>\n

Tristram Hunt<\/b> is Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. He was formerly
\nLabour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central.<\/p>\n

Helen Joyce<\/b> is editor of the Economist<\/i>\u2019s economics and finance section. <\/p>\n

Nina Khrushcheva<\/b> teaches international
\naffairs at The New School in New York. She is co-author of In Putin\u2019s Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia\u2019s Eleven Time Zones<\/i> (St Martin\u2019s Press).<\/p>\n

James Kirchick<\/b> is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, and author of The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age<\/i> (Yale).<\/p>\n

Kirsty Lang<\/b> is a journalist and broadcaster for the BBC. She is a trustee of the British Council.<\/p>\n

John Laurenson<\/b> is a reporter and documentary-maker based in Paris.<\/p>\n

Liz Lefroy <\/b>is a poet. Her latest collection is Mending the Ordinary<\/i> (Fair Acre Press).<\/p>\n

Maureen Lipman<\/b> is an actress, comedian and writer. She currently plays Evelyn Plummer on Coronation Street<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Melanie McDonagh<\/b> works for the London\u00a0 Evening Standard <\/i>and is a columnist for the Tablet<\/i>. <\/p>\n

Clovis Meath Baker<\/b> retired from the Foreign Office in 2013. He is an associate fellow of RUSI.<\/p>\n

Cindy Polemis<\/b> is an art historian, and\u00a0 guide at Tate Modern and Tate Britain. She curates bespoke art tours.<\/p>\n

Crispin Sartwell<\/b> is a philosopher and journalist. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n

The Secret Barrister<\/b> is a practising lawyer, \u00a0 <\/b>critic of the criminal justice system, and author of The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It\u2019s Broken<\/i> (MacMillan).<\/p>\n

Emma Sergeant <\/b>is preparing for an exhibition at the Garden Museum and working on studies for painting the Palio next July in Siena.<\/p>\n

Samir Shah <\/b>is chief executive of Juniper, a \u00a0 television and radio production company. He is a former senior BBC news and current affairs executive, and non-executive director.<\/p>\n

Peter Simons<\/b> is Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, where he held the chair of Moral Philosophy.<\/p>\n

Tom Tugendhat <\/b>is the Conservative MP for Tonbridge and Malling. He chairs the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.<\/p>\n

A.N. Wilson <\/b>is author of Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved The Monarchy<\/i>, published by Atlantic Books.<\/p>\n

David Womersley<\/b> is Thomas Warton Professor of English at the University of Oxford.<\/p>\n

John Glynn, who wrote \u201cOverrated: PhDs\u201d and \u201cUnderrated: Vocational Qualifications\u201d \u00a0 in the last issue, misrepresented his professional credentials. We apologise if any readers were misled.<\/i> <\/p>\n

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