- Jeremy Clarkson
Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born 11 April 1960) is an English broadcaster and writer who specialises in motoring. He writes weekly columns for "The Sunday Times" and "The Sun", but is better known for his role on the BBC TV show "Top Gear". The show won an International Emmy in 2005. "Not a man given to considered opinion", according to the BBC, Clarkson is known to be opinionated and forthright in his views. - Irwin Stelzer
Irwin Stelzer is a business adviser and director of economic policy studies at the Hudson Institute. In our view, Irwin Stelzer always seems to present a well thought out and sensible view. - Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Michael Sullivan (born August 10,1963) is a libertarian conservative author and political commentator, distinguished by his often personal style of political analysis, and pioneering achievements in the field of blog journalism. Sullivan is known for his unusual personal-political identity (HIV-positive, gay, self-described conservative often at odds with other conservatives, and practising Roman Catholic). - William Rees-Mogg
William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg (b. July 14 1928, Bristol, England) is a journalist, writer and politician in the United Kingdom. After being educated at Charterhouse and Balliol College, Oxford, he began his career at "The Financial Times", before moving to "The Sunday Times". Here he wrote an article which many believe convinced Alec Douglas-Home to resign as Tory leader, making way for Edward Heath, in July 1965. - Peter Stothard
Peter Stothard The Editor of the TLS writes on books, people and politics - Magnus Linklater
Magnus Linklater (born 21 February 1942) is a Scottish journalist and former newspaper editor. Linklater was born in Orkney, and is the son of Scottish writer Eric Linklater. He was brought up in Easter Ross, attending the local school at Nigg before moving to high school in Dunbar, East Lothian, then on to Eton College in England. He continued his studies with courses at Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg in Germany and the Sorbonne in Paris, … - Cosmo Landesman
Cosmo Landesman is a journalist and editor and son of Fran and Jay Landesman. With his then wife Julie Burchill, he set up the magazine The Modern Review. The magazine folded, and Burchill left him for Charlotte Raven, one of the female interns. After the experience Landesman quit the UK in 1995 to work in New York. He was one of the contributors to "Vanity Fair's" Cool Britannia issue. He now reviews films for "The Sunday Times". - William Kay
William Kay is a British financial and business journalist. Kay was on the staffs of the London Evening Standard and the now-defunct London Evening News in the early years of his career and has been freelancing, writing books and working for UK national newspapers since then. The British edition of Who's Who records that William Kay has been the City Editor, Financial Editor, Money Editor or Personal Finance Editor of five British newspapers: "The Times, … - Richard Williams
Richard Williams (born 1947 in Sheffield) is a British music and sports journalist. As a writer, then deputy editor, of the weekly rock magazine "Melody Maker", he became an influential commentator on the rise of new forms of rock music at the end of the 1960s. Williams and "MM", as it was known, helped to promote and contextualise styles such as progressive rock and folk rock. - Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA, (born 8 January1942) is a British theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes, and his popular works in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general. - Andrew Neil
Andrew Ferguson Neil (born May 21 1949, Paisley, Scotland, United Kingdom) is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster. Neil made his name at "The Sunday Times" where he was editor for 11 years. In 1995 he was made editor-in-chief of the Press Holdings group of newspapers, owner of "The Business" and (from 2005) "The Spectator". Press Holdings sold "The Scotsman" in December 2005, ending Neil's relationship with the newspaper. - Jason Dawe
Jason Dawe was a presenter on the "Top Gear" television show on its first season after it was relaunched. His main part in the show was to present different bargains for used cars, as opposed to the super car reviews and entertaining motoring challenges, which were done by the two other presenters, Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond. James May replaced Jason as the third presenter in "Top Gear's" second post-relaunch season. - A. A. Gill
Adrian Anthony Gill (born June 28, 1954) is a British newspaper columnist and writer. He is also restaurant reviewer in the "Style" section of the London "Sunday Times", and a television critic in the "Culture" section in the same paper. His essays are known for their humor and satirical content. The son of television producer Michael Gill, he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, … - Mike Ashley
Michael James Wallace Ashley is an English billionaire retail entrepreneur, in the sporting goods market. He is also the largest shareholder in Newcastle United F.C after buying Sir John Hall's share in the club on 23 May 2007. Ranked 25th in the 2007 version of the "Sunday Times Rich List" with estimated wealth of £1.9 billion, Ashley is an intensely private person, who never attends industry functions or gives interviews. - David Leppard
David Leppard is a British journalist and former editor of "The Sunday Times" investigative unit, the "Insight" team. He is the author of books on the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, the Waco siege, and Special Branch, the British counter-terrorism and national-security police. He was responsible for a 1995 story suggesting Michael Foot, the former leader of the Labour party, had been an agent for the KGB. - John Carey
John Carey (born April 5 1934) is a British literary critic, and emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He was born in Barnes, London, and brought up in Nottingham as an evacuee and East Sheen. He studied at St. John's College, Oxford. After posts in a number of Oxford colleges, he became Merton Professor in 1975, retiring in 2001. He is known, amongst other things, for his anti-elitist tone and iconoclastic views on high culture, … - Harold Evans
Sir Harold Matthew Evans (born June 28 1928) is a British-born journalist and writer who was editor of "The Sunday Times" from 1967 to 1981. He has written various books on history and journalism. Since 2001, Evans has served as Editor-at-Large of The Week Magazine and since 2005, he has been a contributor to The Guardian and BBC Radio 4. Evans was born in Manchester, where he attended school with Alfred, Lord Morris, … - Roy Greenslade
Roy Greenslade is Professor of Journalism at London’s City University and has been a media commentator since 1992, most notably for "The Guardian". He also writes a column for the London "Evening Standard". He has been a journalist for 41 years and has worked for most of Britain’s national newspapers. He was editor of the "Daily Mirror" (1990-91), … - Christina Lamb
Christina Lamb (born May 15, 1965) is a British journalist and author. In 2002, she was named Foreign Correspondent of the Year in every major British media awards (the British Press Awards, the Foreign Press Association and the What the Papers Say Awards) for her reporting on the War on Terrorism. She has won numerous awards, including the Young Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards for her coverage of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. - Joan Smith
Joan Alison Smith (born August 27, 1953 in London) is an English novelist, journalist and human rights activist, who is a former chair of the Writers in Prison committee in the English section of International PEN. Smith read Latin at the University of Reading in the early 1970s. After a spell as a journalist in local radio in Manchester, she joined the staff of the "Sunday Times" in 1979 and stayed at the newspaper until 1984, … - Guy Hands
Guy Hands is Terra Firma Capital Partner's Chief Executive Officer and Founder. Guy sits on the Investment Advisory Committee and General Partners' boards. Guy started his career with Goldman Sachs International where he went on to become Head of Eurobond Trading and then Head of Goldman Sachs' Global Asset Structuring Group. - Waldemar Januszczak
Waldemar Januszczak (born January 12, 1954) is a British art critic, who writes for "The Sunday Times", and a film maker of television arts documentaries. He was previously Commissioning Editor for the arts for Channel 4 television. - David Gold
David Gold is an English businessman. Along with his brother, Ralph Gold, he owns Gold Group International, the parent company of the "passion and fashion" retailer Ann Summers, lingerie chain Knickerbox, pornographic magazine company Gold Star Publishers, several printing and distribution businesses, and corporate air service Gold Air International. The brothers also own a share in Sport Newspapers, owner of the "Sunday Sport" and "The Daily Sport", … - Hala Jaber
Hala Jaber is an Arab journalist currently writing for British paper The Sunday Times. She won the British Press Awards, Foreign Reporter of the Year, in 2005 for her articles covering the aftermath of the Iraq War. She also won the award in 2006. She won an Amnesty International Award in 2003. - Helena Frith Powell
Helena Frith Powell is an author and a columnist. She has written two books, one on moving to France where she lived with her family for five years, and another on the secrets behind French style and taste. The latter, Two Lipsticks and a Lover, has been bought by Penguin in the US and Arrow in the UK for paperback publication. It was the subject of a bidding war on both sides of the Atlantic. - Jeff Randall
Jeff William Randall (born October 3 1954) is a business journalist, formerly the business editor of BBC News and from 2005 editor-at-large of the "Daily Telegraph". Randall was educated at the Royal Liberty School in Romford, London Borough of Havering and the University of Nottingham. He did a postgraduate course in journalism at the University of Florida. Randall worked as Assistant Editor of "Financial Weekly", … - Julie Burchill
Julie Burchill (born July 3 1959 in Frenchay, Bristol) is a British writer, renowned for her invective and often contentious prose. She is best known as a newspaper columnist, but in June 2007 announced the end of her journalistic career. - Patience Wheatcroft
Patience Wheatcroft (born 1951) is a British journalist who is currently editor of the "Sunday Telegraph" newspaper. She has worked on several national newspapers including "The Daily Mail", "The Sunday Times" and "The Daily Telegraph". After serving as Deputy City Editor of the "Mail on Sunday", Wheatcroft was appointed Business & City Editor of "The Times" in 1997, and then as editor of the "Sunday Telegraph" in March 2006. - Brian Deer
Brian Deer is an award-winning British investigative reporter, best known for inquiries into the drug industry, medicine and social issues for the Sunday Times of London. After graduating in philosophy from the University of Warwick, he became editor and press officer for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and was a member of the Leveller magazine collective. He joined The Times, then The Sunday Times, … - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (born January 14 1965) is a British celebrity chef and TV presenter, noted for his mildly eccentric antics and back-to-nature philosophy. Born in London and raised in Gloucestershire, Fearnley-Whittingstall first became interested in cookery as a young child but he chose to study at St Peter's College, Oxford University, after attending Eton College, … - Donald Crowhurst
Donald Crowhurst (1932-1969) was an English businessman and amateur sailor who died while competing in the "Sunday Times Golden Globe Race", a single-handed, round-the-world yacht race. Crowhurst had entered the race in hopes of winning a cash prize from the "Sunday Times" to aid his failing business. Instead, he encountered difficulty early in the voyage, and secretly abandoned the race while reporting false positions, … - Peter Hounam
Peter Hounam (born 1944) is a British journalist who has worked for "Sunday Times", "The Mirror", the "London Evening Standard", and BBC Television, as well as having published several books: *"Secret Cult", with Andrew Hogg, about the School of Economic Science in London, ISBN 0-85648-837-2 *"The Mini-Nuke Conspiracy: How Mandela Inherited a Nuclear Nightmare" about nuclear weapons in South Africa, … - John Witherow
John Witherow is editor of the "Sunday Times" newspaper. A notoriously private man, very little is known about his private (or indeed public) life. Born in England circa 1954. Attended Bedford independent school and the University of York before enrolling at the Cardiff School of Journalism. Began his career at Reuters news agency and then joined "The Times" of London as a reporter. - Martin Kettle
Martin James Kettle is a British journalist and author. The son of two prominent communist activists Arnold Kettle (best remembered as a literary critic) (1916-86) and Margot Kettle (née Gale) (1916-95), Martin Kettle was educated at Leeds Modern School and Balliol College, Oxford University. Kettle worked for the National Council for Civil Liberties as a research officer from 1973. - Richard Branson
Richard Branson , born July 18, 1950, is an English billionaire best known for his 360 companies all bearing the Virgin name. As a young entrepreneur, he had operated a mail-order record business when he was 20 years old, and opened a brick and mortar record shop the following year, 1971: Virgin Records, since he was a "virgin" to business. - Peter Conradi
Peter Conradi is an author and journalist who should not be confused with Peter J. Conradi, another author with a similar name. He is the author of: "The Red Ripper: Inside the Mind of Russia's Most Brutal Serial Killer" (about Andrei Chikatilo); "Mad Vlad: Vladimir Zhirinovksy and the New Russian Nationalism"; and "Hitler's Piano Player" (about Ernst Hanfstängl a.k.a. Putzi). - Sean O'Brien
Sean O'Brien is a British poet, critic, playwright, broadcaster, anthologist, short story writer and editor. He grew up in Hull and has lived in Newcastle upon Tyne since 1990. He was appointed the Northern Arts Literary Fellow in 1992. On 22 March 2007, he became the sixth winner of the Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award. This prize is worth £20,000 a year for a period of three years. - Peter Hill
Peter Hill is a rock music photographer from the UK, who tours with and documents a variety of bands from all over the world. As of April 2007 (and since Nov 2005), he tours full time with welsh band, The Automatic, and he is also documenting St. Albans hardcore crossover outfit, Enter Shikari. In the past he has toured with, and documented, bands including Kaiser Chiefs, The Ordinary Boys, Towers of London, Polysics, Do Me Bad Things, Feable Weiner, and a number of others. - Tyler Brûlé
Jayson Tyler Brûlé is a Canadian-born journalist, entrepreneur and magazine publisher. The son of Canadian football star Paul Brûlé, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1989 and trained as a journalist with the BBC. He subsequently wrote for "The Guardian", "Stern", "The Sunday Times" and "Vanity Fair". After being shot by a sniper while covering the Afghanistan war in March 1994 and losing the use of his left hand, … - Ferdinand Mount
Sir William Robert Ferdinand Mount, 3rd Baronet (born 2 July 1939), known simply as Ferdinand Mount, is a British writer and novelist, columnist for "The Sunday Times" and commentator on politics, and Conservative Party politician. He was head of the policy unit in 10 Downing Street in 1982-83, during the time when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister, and wrote the 1983 Tory general election manifesto.
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