Ayishat Akanbi
Ayishat is a London-based stylist, writer, and cultural commentator. She has worked across fashion, art, and public discussion, and is known for writing and speaking on identity, ideology, freedom, and culture.
Ali Ansari
Ali is Professor of Iranian History & Founding Director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews; a Senior Associate Fellow, at the Royal United Services Institute; and a Senior Policy Fellow at Policy Exchange.
Bobby Bryan
Bobby is an army officer specialising in multinational security policy, strategic communication, and defence diplomacy. He is currently the strategic lead for the UK’s Military Strategic HQ’s for the Joint Expeditionary Force.
Bryan Cheang
Bryan is the Director of the Hayek Program and Research Fellow at the London School of Economics. He is also a Senior Fellow at King’s College London where he received his PhD in Political Economy.
Daisy Christodoulou
Daisy is director of education at No More Marking and the author of Seven Myths about Education and I Can’t Stop Thinking About VAR. She previously taught English and served as head of assessment at Ark Schools.
Tyler Cowen
Tyler is the Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University and chairman and faculty director of the Mercatus Center. He co-authors Marginal Revolution, co-founded Marginal Revolution University, and hosts the Conversations with Tyler podcast.
Tom Forth
Tom is the co-founder and CTO of The Data City, an economic data company in Leeds with offices in London and New York. He was Head of Data at The Open Data Institute Leeds, later Open Innovations, from its founding in 2014 to its closure in 2026. He also writes a blog at tomforth.co.uk.
Andrew Gilligan
Andrew Gilligan spent 25 years in journalism, including at the BBC, the Evening Standard, the Telegraph and the Sunday Times, and is a former Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards. Between 2019 and 2024, he was senior adviser to two Prime Ministers, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak, at Downing Street.
David Goodhart
David is a journalist, commentator, and author, and the founder and former editor of Prospect magazine. He was previously a correspondent for the Financial Times, director of Demos, and head of the Demography, Immigration and Integration Unit at Policy Exchange.
Aled Maclean-Jones
Philip is a novelist, journalist and professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University. His novels include The Northern Clemency, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and Scenes from Early Life, winner of the RSL Ondaatje Prize. He writes regularly for The Spectator and The Independent. His new book The English Novel is forthcoming.
Sarah Hunter
Sarah is a technology and policy adviser with a background in climate tech and public policy. She is a non-executive director at ARIA, a trustee of Nesta, and previously spent more than a decade leading global public policy at X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory.
Tom Jones
Tom Jones is Deputy Online Editor of the Critic and Conservative Councillor for Scotton and Lower Wensleydale on North Yorkshire Council. He is also author of the Potemkim Village Idiot Substack.
James Lawson
James is a Director at Helsing, Europe’s leading Defence Tech company. Before Helsing, he was a Senior Special Adviser in the Cabinet Office, and led the UK defence business at Microsoft. He has also held leadership roles at two AI startups, DataRobot and WorkFusion.
Aled Maclean-Jones
Aled is chief executive of Ashore and a former special adviser to the UK Prime Minister and to HM Treasury. He writes on culture and technology, and has published in outlets including Works in Progress, UnHerd, and the New Statesman.
Ian Leslie
Ian is an author and essayist who writes on psychology, technology, culture, and human behaviour. He is the author of Conflicted: how arguments are tearing us apart and John & Paul: a Love Story in Songs, and writes the The Ruffian Substack.
Henry Oliver
Henry is a writer, literary critic, and research fellow at the Mercatus Center. He is the author of Second Act and writes the literary Substack The Common Reader, which has been featured in outlets including the New York Times, GQ, and The Atlantic.
Bijan Omrani
Bijan is an historian and journalist. His works deal with cultural and religious history from Central Asia, to Greece, Rome and Britain. His latest book, God is an Englishman, was a Telegraph book of the year for 2025. He writes for various publications including the Telegraph, Spectatory and The Critic.
Andrew O’Brien
Andrew is an economics writer and Head of Secretariat at the Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods (ICON). Before joining ICON, he was Director of Policy and Impact at Demos. As well as regularly contributing to publications such as UnHerd and The New Statesman on economics, Andrew edits the British Economy Monitor and Conservative Reader substacks.
Will Orr-Ewing
Will is the founder of Keystone Tutors and has worked across the schools sector for the past two decades: as trustee, owner and policy advisor for various think tanks. He was closely involved in the movement to get smartphones out of schools, and has written and spoken widely on the state of UK education, from the BBC to GB News!
Russ Roberts
Russ is president of Shalem College in Jerusalem and is a John and Jean De Nault Research Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. He is the host of the long-running EconTalk podcast and the author of several books on economics and public life.
Juliet Samuel
Juliet is a columnist at The Times, where she writes on politics, economics, foreign policy, and technology. She previously wrote for The Daily Telegraph and has also covered finance and business for The Wall Street Journal and The Times.
Marcus Walker
Marcus read Byzantine History at university and was ordained in 2011. He served for four years as Deputy Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome, the Anglican Communion’s embassy to the Holy See, and has been at Great St Bartholomew since 2018. He writes regularly for the Critic and occasionally for the Spectator, Times, Telegraph, and New Statesman.
Marc Warner
Marc is Global Chief Technology Officer of Accenture and co-founder of Faculty, the UK AI company acquired by Accenture in 2026. He founded Faculty after an academic career in physics. He has served on the UK Prime Minister’s AI Council and the Government’s Digital Economy Advisory Group.
Ed West
Ed is a writer and journalist, and the author of books including The Diversity Illusion, Tory Boy, and Small Men on the Wrong Side of History. He writes the Wrong Side of History Substack and has previously worked at UnHerd, The Catholic Herald, The Daily Telegraph, and The Spectator.
Rian Whitton
Rian is an analyst at Bismarck Analysis specialising in automation, energy, and industrial policy. He writes the Doctor Syn newsletter and has also written on robotics, technology, and industry for outlets including UnHerd and American Affairs.