- Nicholas D. Kristof
Nicholas Donabet Kristof (born April 27 1959 in Yamhill, Oregon) is an American political scientist, author, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist specializing in East Asia. He is currently a columnist for "The New York Times" and previously served as the as The New York Times' Bureau Chief in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo. He has written a number of books on Asia, …
- David Aaronovitch
David Aaronovitch (born July 8, 1954) is a British journalist, broadcaster, and author. He is a regular columnist for "The Times", and is the author of "Paddling to Jerusalem: An Aquatic Tour of Our Small Country" (2000). He won the George Orwell Prize for political journalism in 1998 and again in 2001.
- Gail Collins
Gail Collins (born December 25, 1945) was the Editorial Page Editor of "The New York Times" from 2001 to January 1, 2007. She was the first woman Editorial Page Editor at the "Times". Before the Editorial Page, Collins was an editorial board member and columnist on the op-ed page. On October 12, 2006, she announced that she would step down as Editorial Page Editor, effective this year. Collins will take a year off to write a book, …
- Libby Purves
Libby Purves OBE(born February 2 1950 in London, England) is a radio presenter, journalist and author. A diplomat's daughter, she was educated at convent schools in Bangkok (Thailand), South Africa and France, and then Beechwood Sacred Heart School in Tunbridge Wells. Purves won a scholarship to St Anne's College, Oxford where she obtained a first-class honours degree and rose to the rank of Librarian (Vice President) of the Oxford Union.
- Simon Jenkins
Sir Simon Jenkins (born 10 June 1943) is a British newspaper columnist currently associated with "The Guardian" after fifteen years with News International titles. He was educated at Mill Hill School, the Beechen Cliff School in Bath, England and St John's College, Oxford. A former editor of The Times newspaper, he received a knighthood for services to journalism in the 2004 New Year honours.
- Boris Johnson
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, MP (born 19 June 1964, New York), better known as Boris Johnson, is a British Conservative Party politician and journalist. Known for his eccentric public persona, he is Member of Parliament for Henley and was for a time front-bench spokesman as Shadow Minister for Higher Education.
- Ruth Gledhill
Ruth Gledhill (born 1959) is the long-standing Religion Correspondent for The Times newspaper. She is married to Alan Franks, a Times feature writer; they have one son, Arthur. Gledhill began her career with The Birmingham Post and Mail, before joining the Daily Mail in 1984 and The Times in 1987; she became Religion Correspondent in 1989. She co-authored with Tim Webb a guide to Birmingham entitled "Birmingham is not a Boring City", …
- 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.
- Caitlin Moran
Caitlin Moran (b. 5 April 1975) is a British broadcaster and columnist for "The Times". She is TV critic and current affairs columnist at "The Times". She also writes for "ELLE" magazine, "WORD" magazine, "Period Living", "Times Educational Supplement", "Radio Times" and "The Sunday Times Magazine". She began her career as a journalist on "Melody Maker", the weekly music publication, at the age of 16.
- Peter Stothard
Peter Stothard The Editor of the TLS writes on books, people and politics
- Anatole Kaletsky
Anatole Kaletsky Anatole Kaletsky is Principal Economic Commentator and Associate Editor of The Times of London, where he writes a twice-weekly column on economics, politics and financial markets. Since 1997 he has also worked as an economic consultant, providing forecasts and policy analysis for financial institutions, multinational companies and international organisations through his company, Kaletsky Economic Consulting Ltd. In 1998 he was elected by Britainâ
- Sam Harris
Sam Harris (born 1967) is an American writer. He is the author of "The End of Faith" (2004), which was inspired by the September 11, 2001 attacks, and which won the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award, and "Letter to a Christian Nation" (2006), a rejoinder to the criticism the first book attracted. His articles have appeared in "Newsweek", "The Los Angeles Times", "The Times" of London, and "The Boston Globe".
- Ben MacIntyre
Ben Macintyre is a columnist writing for The Times newspaper. His columns range from current affairs to historical controversies.
- Bryan Appleyard
Bryan Appleyard (born 24 August 1951) in Manchester, England, is a journalist and author.
- Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk (born July 12 1946 in Maidstone, Kent) is a British journalist and is currently a Middle East correspondent for the British newspaper "The Independent". He was married to the American journalist Lara Marlowe. He lives in Beirut, Lebanon, where he has resided for over 25 years.
- Michael Gove
Michael Andrew Gove (born August 26, 1967) is a Conservative politician, journalist and author in the United Kingdom. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Surrey Heath since 2005.
- Peter Riddell
Peter Riddell is a British journalist writing for The Times since 1991. He is a political commentator.
- Chris Ayres
Chris Ayres is the Los Angeles correspondent for the "Times" (London). In 2003 Chris Ayres took part in an embed scheme in Iraq - in which journalists were embedded with American forces to get a frontline view of the war - which he describes in his book "War Reporting for Cowards". The book provides not only an interesting perspective on the American road to war, …
- A. O. Scott
Anthony O. Scott (born July 10, 1966) is a film critic for "The New York Times" newspaper. He began his tenure at the paper's Arts section in January 2000, following Janet Maslin's retirement. Before joining "The Times", Scott was a book critic for "Newsday" as well as a contributor to the "New York Review of Books" and "Slate". Son of the well-known historian Joan Wallach Scott, he attended public schools in Providence, Rhode Island, …
- A.O. Scott
A.O. "Tony" Scott (b. July 10, 1966) is a film critic for "The New York Times" newspaper. He began his tenure at the paper's Arts section in January 2000, following Janet Maslin's retirement. Before joining "The Times", Scott was a book critic for "Newsday" as well as a contributor to the "New York Review of Books" and "Slate". Son of the well-known historian Joan Wallach Scott, he attended public schools in Providence, Rhode Island, …
- 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, …
- Anjana Ahuja
Anjana Ahuja is a British Indian science journalist and columnist for "The Times". Ahuja read physics at Imperial College London, followed by a postgraduate course in space physics during which she worked on data about the Sun's magnetic field from the Ulysses probe. After receiving her PhD in 1994, she was hired by "The Times" as a graduate trainee journalist. Anjana currently writes the weekly "Science Notebook" column in "The Times", …
- Stephen Pollard
Stephen Pollard is a British author and journalist, currently President of a free-market Brussels-based think tank, the Centre for a New Europe. He writes columns for several publications including "The Times" and the "Daily Mail" and maintains a lively Spectatorblog. He is an alumnus of John Lyon School and Mansfield College, Oxford. Pollard is an advocate of market-based based public service reforms. He is a biographer of David Blunkett.
- Alan Lee
Alan Lee is a prolific writer and author on cricket. Formerly the cricket correspondent for The Times, Lee has penned many works including biographies, co-written with the subject, of David Lloyd, David Gower and Tony Greig. He also writes on horse racing, including a 2002 biography of Richard Johnson.
- Oliver Kamm
Oliver Kamm (born 1963) is a British writer and newspaper columnist. He is the author of "Anti-Totalitarianism: The Left-wing Case for a Neoconservative Foreign Policy" (2005), in which he advocates interventionism in foreign policy. He also writes opinion pieces for "The Times".
- Molly Ivins
Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins (August 30 1944 - January 31 2007) was an American newspaper columnist, political commentator, and best-selling author from Austin, Texas.
- Richard Lloyd Parry
Richard Lloyd Parry is a British foreign correspondent. He is the Asia Editor of "The Times" of London, based in Tokyo, and is the author of "In the Time of Madness", a non-fiction book about Indonesia and East Timor. In 2005, he was named Foreign Correspondent of the Year in the UK's "What The Papers Say" Awards.
- Thomas Stuttaford
Dr Irving Thomas Stuttaford OBE, (born 4 May 1931) is a British doctor, author, medical columnist of "The Times" and former Conservative Member of Parliament. He retired in 2002 as Senior Medical Advisor for Barclays Bank. From 1970 to 1974 Stuttaford was the MP for Norwich South. In two subsequent elections he was a candidate in the Isle of Ely but lost to Clement Freud. His views on the effects of alcohol on health, specifically red wine, are controversial, …
- Graham Henry Greene
Graham Greene / Graham Greene , who was in the staff of The Times from 1926 to 1940, and served in the Foreign Office during WWII, is the author of many important novels, several of which were made into movies. Critics often refer to a turning point in his writing when he converted to Catholicism, and often wonder as to why he continues to elude the Nobel Committee. His first work, Babbling April , appeared in 1925.
- Howell Raines
Howell Hiram Raines (born February 5, 1943 in Birmingham, Alabama) was Executive Editor of "The New York Times" from 2001 until his resignation following the Jayson Blair scandal in 2003. He currently writes political commentary for British newspaper "The Guardian".
- Mick Hume
Mick Hume (born 1959) is a British journalist and former organiser of the Revolutionary Communist Party. He was raised in Woking and educated at Manchester University where he read American Studies. Once editor of "Living Marxism", he is now a columnist for "The Times" (London) and editor-at-large of "Spiked", the online magazine. Mick Hume was the editor of "LM Magazine" (which he launched, originally as "Living Marxism", …
- 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.
- John Harvey
John Harvey (born 1938) is a British author of crime fiction most famous for his series of ten jazz-influenced Charlie Resnick novels, based in the City of Nottingham. Harvey has also published over 90 books under various names, and has worked on scripts for TV and radio. The first Resnick novel, "Lonely Hearts", was published in 1989, and was named by The Times as one of the "100 Greatest Crime Novels of the Century".
- Martin O'Neill
Martin Hugh Michael O'Neill, OBE, (born March 1 1952 in Kilrea, Northern Ireland) is a former Northern Ireland national football team captain who has previously managed Wycombe Wanderers, Norwich City, Leicester City and Celtic and is currently manager of Aston Villa.
- Tim Hames
Tim Hames is a columnist and Chief Leader Writer at the The Times. Before joining the newspaper in 1999, he was a lecturer in politics at Oxford University.
- Hugo Rifkind
Hugo Rifkind was born in Edinburgh in 1977 and is a British writer. He is the son of former Conservative Cabinet Minister and MP, Sir Malcolm Rifkind. He is a columnist for "The Times", best known for his regular "People" column (a wryly humorous diary column focussing on politicians, celebrities, and other well-known personalities); and has also worked as a freelance writer for other publications including the Evening Standard and the Herald.
- David Brown
Sir David Brown (May 10, 1904 - September 3, 1993) was an English entrepreneur, managing director of his family firm David Brown Limited and one time owner of shipbuilders Vosper Thornycroft. Brown was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. After attending Rossall School he started work as an apprentice in the family business, "David Brown Gear Company Ltd", aged 17, becoming managing director in 1931, on his uncle Percy's death.
- Michael Hart
Michael Hart (born 1956) has been Fellow in Politics at Exeter College, Oxford since 1982. His research interests include British Politics since 1880 and Modern Southern Africa. He lectures on British Politics and Government since 1900. Hart has also been quoted on numerous occasions by The Times and The Telegraph during general election periods, and has been a Councillor on Oxford City Council.
- John Harris
John Harris (born 1969) is a British journalist, writer, and critic. Harris was raised in Cheshire by two university lecturers and became fixated by pop music at an early age. After three years at Queen's College, Oxford, he began his professional writing career with "Melody Maker" in 1991, but he didn't stay long and has since expressed his distaste for its more intellectual writing style.
- Janet Maslin
The question (not burning, perhaps--except for the poor dupes who suffered through the charmless Phantom because the Times recommended it) is how Maslin comes by this generosity. The paranoid explanation is that the paper's growing dependence on movie ads compels her, in some oblique and unconscious way, to be an industry booster. Or it could be that Maslin is a little too well connected for a film critic, as some detractors have charged, and afraid to hurt her friends' feelings.