- Guardian
The Guardian is the final villain of the "Ultima" series of computer role playing games. He is also the series' most frequently recurring villain, being the only character to feature as the main villain in more than one game. In "Ultima VII", "VIII", "IX" and "Ultima Underworld II" he is voiced by the actor Bill Johnson.
- Michael White
Michael White (born 1945) is an associate editor and former political editor of "The Guardian". After studying for a BA (Hons) History at University College London, he began his career at the "Reading Evening Post" (1966-71) and after a spell at the "London Evening Standard" (1970-71) he moved to "The Guardian" where he has worked ever since variously as a sub/feature writer (1971-74), diary writer (1974-76), …
- George Monbiot
George Monbiot (born January 27, 1963) is a journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist in the United Kingdom who writes a weekly column for "The Guardian" newspaper. He is on the advisory board of "BBC Wildlife" magazine.
- Jeff Jarvis
JEFF JARVIS is former TV critic for TV Guide and People, creator of Entertainment Weekly, Sunday editor and associate publisher of the NY Daily News, and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner. He was until recently president & creative director of Advance.net , the online arm of Advance Publications.
- Polly Toynbee
Polly Toynbee (born Mary Louisa Toynbee on December 27 1946) is a journalist and writer in the United Kingdom, and has since 1998 been a highly influential columnist for "The Guardian" newspaper. Her columns are written from a social democratic viewpoint, and thus are closer to Labour than the other major British parties. She holds up social democratic Sweden as an exemplar. She was appointed President of the British Humanist Association in July 2007
- Steve Bell
Steve Bell (born February 26, 1951) is an English political cartoonist, whose work appears in "The Guardian" and other places. He is known for his left-wing views and distinctive caricatures. Born in Walthamstow, London and raised in Slough, Bell moved to North Yorkshire with his family in 1968, where he trained as an artist at the Teesside College of Art as well as the University of Leeds.
- Iain Dale
Iain Campbell Dale (born 15 July 1962) is an English Conservative, blogger, author, and presenter on internet TV station, 18 Doughty Street Talk TV, which he co-founded with Stephan Shakespeare. He was the first openly gay Conservative to be selected as a Parliamentary candidate. Dale is author or editor of fourteen political books. He presented "Planet Politics" on Oneword Radio and occasionally appeared on "Sunday Service" on BBC Radio Five Live.
- 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.
- Jonathan Freedland
Jonathan Saul Freedland (born February 25 1967) is a British journalist, who writes a weekly column for "The Guardian" and a monthly piece for the Jewish Chronicle. Freedland has previously written for The Daily Mirror and as of September 2005, he writes each Thursday for the "London Evening Standard". He is the son of Michael Freedland, the biographer and journalist. Educated at University College School, a boys' independent school in Hampstead, London, …
- Melanie Phillips
Melanie Phillips (born June 4 1951) is a British columnist and author. Her articles appear mainly in the "Daily Mail" newspaper and focus on political and social issues. She has previously written for "The Guardian" and other publications. Phillips is a regular panelist on the BBC Radio 4 programme, "The Moral Maze" and on BBC One's "Question Time".
- Mariella Frostrup
Mariella Frostrup (born 12 November, 1962 in Oslo, Norway) is a journalist and television presenter, well known on British TV and radio for her mildly throaty voice, once voted the sexiest female voice on TV celebrities. Her voice is often used on TV commercials. Frostrup moved with her family as a child to Kilmacanogue, a small village outside Dublin. Her Norwegian father was a journalist, and her Scottish-born mother an artist.
- Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw is a British writer and film critic. Bradshaw is film critic for "The Guardian". He has written a novel, "Dr Sweet and his Daughter", published in 2004. He also wrote and performed a BBC radio programme titled "For One Horrible Moment", recorded October 10, 1998 and first broadcast January 20, 1999. The programme chronicled a young man's coming of age in 1970s Cambridgeshire.
- Jack Schofield
Jack Schofield is The Guardian's computer editor. He is one of the few blog-writers on the Guardian's Comment Is Free blog site that actually replies to the posts on his blog. Many posters on his blog post simply to have a go at Jack, and Jack's responses are unusually blunt for a Guardian writer.
- Gary Younge
Gary Younge (born 1969 in Hitchin, UK) is a journalist and author, born to immigrant parents from Barbados. Younge read French and Russian at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. He went on to study at City University, London where he gained a Post-graduate Diploma in Newspaper Journalism in 1993. Younge is a columnist for "The Guardian" and is currently the newspaper's New York City correspondent.
- 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), …
- Martin Amis
Martin Amis (born August 25, 1949) is a British novelist. His works include such novels as "London Fields" (1989). Influenced by Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, and James Joyce, as well as by his father Sir Kingsley Amis, he has inspired numerous writers, including Will Self and Zadie Smith.
- 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.
- Madeleine Bunting
Madeleine Bunting is a British journalist and writer who is an Associate Editor and columnist on "The Guardian". Born in Oswaldkirk, North Yorkshire, Bunting was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where she read History, and won a Knox postgraduate fellowship to study Politics and teach at Harvard. After a period working for Brooks Productions (1988-89) she joined "The Guardian" taking up posts as a news reporter, leader writer, …
- 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.
- Jonathan Steele
Jonathan Steele is a British journalist and author of "Soviet Power: The Kremlin's Foreign Policy-Brezhnev to Andropov". He has reported on Afghanistan, Russia, Iraq, and other countries. Currently he is a contributor to The Guardian.
- Michael Billington
Michael Billington (born on 16 November, 1938 in Leamington Spa) is a British theatre critic and broadcaster. Billington was educated at Warwick School and St Catherine's College, Oxford, and began working as a journalist in Liverpool. He worked as Public Liaison Officer and Director for Lincoln Theatre Company from 1962 to 1964. He began reviewing films, plays and television programs for "The Times" in 1965.
- Marina Hyde
Marina Hyde is a columnist for the British newspaper "The Guardian", where she writes on politics, sport and celebrity. She lives in London. She read English at Christ Church, Oxford, and began her career in journalism as a temporary secretary on the showbiz desk at " The Sun" newspaper. At this time she gained much publicity for her affair with Piers Morgan, then "Daily Mirror" editor, while they were both married to other people.
- Charlie Brooker
Charlton Brooker, commonly known as Charlie Brooker, (born 3 March 1971) is a British comedy writer, cartoonist, journalist and television presenter. His style of humour is savage and profane, with surreal elements and a consistent satirical pessimism. He is particularly known for his highly acclaimed TV review columns for "The Guardian" newspaper and is one of four creative directors of comedy production company Zeppotron.
- Richard Norton-Taylor
Richard Norton Taylor (born June 6 1944) is Security Affairs Editor of The Guardian. He was educated at Hertford College, Oxford. Norton Taylor has written several plays based on trasnscripts of public inquiries including "The Colour of Justice" (published 1999) based on the hearing of the MacPherson inquiry on the Police conduct of the investigation into the murder of Stephen Lawrence and "Justifying War: Scenes from the Hutton Inquiry" (2003).
- Zoe Williams
Zoe Williams (born 1973) is a British columnist and journalist who was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford where she read Modern History. Williams writes regularly for "The Guardian" and the "New Statesman", though her work has also appeared in other publications including "The Spectator" and the London Cycling Campaign's magazine "London Cyclist". Much of her work for "The Guardian" is in the form of short, lighthearted, …
- 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.
- Brian Whitaker
Brian Whitaker is a journalist for the British newspaper "The Guardian" since 1987 and its Middle East editor from 2000-2007. He has a degree in Arabic from the University of Westminster. He was formerly a Ph.D. candidate in Middle Eastern studies, but did not finish the degree.
- Peter Preston
Peter Preston is a British journalist and author. Born May 23, 1938 in Leicestershire, he was educated at Loughborough Grammar School and St John's College, Oxford, where he edited the student paper "Cherwell". He has received honorary degrees from the City University, London and the University of Leicester (2003). He joined "The Guardian" in 1963 and was editor for twenty years, from 1975 to 1995.
- John Sutherland
John Sutherland (born 1938) is an English lecturer, emeritus professor, newspaper columnist and author. Now Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London, John Sutherland began his academic career after graduating from the University of Leicester as an assistant lecturer in Edinburgh in 1964. He specialises in Victorian fiction, 20th century literature, and the history of publishing.
- Patrick Wintour
Patrick Wintour is political editor of "The Guardian", known for the quality of his contacts inside the Labour Party government. His sister, Anna, is editor of American "Vogue". Serving as paper's chief political correspondent from 1999–2006 after a spell as political editor of the Guardian's Sunday sister "The Observer", Wintour was appointed political editor on the 2006 retirement of Michael White.
- Timothy Garton Ash
Timothy Garton Ash is a renowned historian, columnist, essayist and author. He is currently director of the European Studies Centre and a Gerd Bucerius Senior Research Fellow in Contemporary History at St. Antony's College, Oxford. He is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University , a fellow of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Arts and a governor of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy.
- Jonathan Glancey
Jonathan Glancey is an architectural critic and writer. As of 2004, he is the architecture and design editor at The Guardian, a position he has held since 1997. He previously held the same post at The Independent. He has also been involved with the architecture magazines Architectural Review, The Architect and Blueprint. He is an honorary fellow of RIBA.
- Steven Poole
Steven Poole (born 1972) is a British author and journalist. Educated at Cambridge, Poole is the author of the book "Trigger Happy" (2000), an attempt to examine videogames in detail in terms of their aesthetics. He has since discussed the subject in a monthly column in Edge (which ran until March 2005) and in a BBC documentary. He has also written for "The Guardian", "The Times" and other newspapers.
- Duncan Campbell
Duncan Campbell is a freelance investigative journalist and television producer who has specialised in intelligence issues, was prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act in the 'ABC Trial' in 1978 and made the controversial series "Secret Society" for the BBC in 1987 (see Zircon affair). He was a staff writer and assistant editor of the "New Statesman" from 1978-91. He should not be confused with another Duncan Campbell, …
- Duncan Campbell
Duncan Campbell is a senior British reporter/correspondent for "The Guardian" where he has worked since 1987. He was previously Los Angeles and crime correspondent for the paper. Prior to joining "The Guardian", he worked for the "London Daily News" and "City Limits" (both defunct), "Time Out" and LBC Radio. His partner is Academy-Award winning British actress Julie Christie.
- Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali (Urdu: طارق علی is a British-Pakistani writer and filmmaker. He is a member of the editorial committee of the "New Left Review", and regularly contributes to "The Guardian", "Counterpunch" and the "London Review of Books". He is the author of "Pirates Of The Caribbean: Axis Of Hope" (2006), "Conversations with Edward Said" (2005), "Bush in Babylon" (2003), …
- Adrian Searle
Adrian Searle is the chief art critic of "The Guardian" newspaper in Britain, and has been writing for the paper since 1996. Previously he was a painter. He curates art shows and also writes fiction.
- Jonathan Jones
Jonathan Jones is a United Kingdom journalist and art critic who has been writing for "The Guardian" since 1999.
- Alan Rusbridger
Alan Rusbridger (born 29 December 1953 in Northern Rhodesia) is the son of the late G H Rusbridger, the Director of Education of the country. He has been editor of "The Guardian" since 1995. Previously he was a reporter, columnist, features editor and the deputy editor of "The Guardian".
- Alexis Petridis
Alexis Petridis is the chief music writer for UK newspaper "The Guardian", as well as a regular contributor to the magazine "GQ". He was the final editor of now defunct music magazine "Select". Petridis has attracted both praise and criticism. In November 2006 he won an award in the "Artist and Music Features: Writer Of The Year" category at the Record of the Day awards. In the past his writing has frequently been attacked by bloggers, …