Sir Chris Bryant has been the Member of Parliament for Rhondda since 2001. He is the Minister of State in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. He was Deputy Leader of the House of Commons and Minister for Europe and Latin America in the last Labour… Read more »
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James Yorkston
James Yorkston is one of the most celebrated artists in British contemporary music. Over the course of a 15-year career as a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, he’s recorded a series of acclaimed albums showcasing a balance of folk and contemporary roots, often drawing deeply on traditional songs and narrative heritage. As a popular live performer and… Read more »
Jasper Rees
Jasper Rees has been a journalist since 1988. He has written over the years for most broadsheets, but principally the Daily Telegraph, Independent, Evening Standard and The Times Saturday Magazine. He has also written for Vogue, Harper’s, Radio Times and GQ. He lives in London.
Gustav Parker Hibbett
Gustav Parker Hibbett is a Black poet, essayist, and MFA dropout. Their first poetry collection, High Jump as Icarus Story (Banshee Press), won the John Pollard International Poetry Prize 2025 and the Southword Debut Poetry Collection Award 2025. It was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2024, Farmgate Café National Poetry Award 2025, and… Read more »
Ben Martynoga
Ben Martynoga is a biologist and award-winning science writer. He has a degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford and a PhD in neurobiology from the University of Edinburgh, and he has worked at the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research in Mumbai and the National Institute for Medical Research and the Francis Crick Institute,… Read more »
Emma Chapman
Emma Chapman is a British writer, currently living in North Yorkshire. She was born in 1985 and grew up near Manchester. She studied English Literature at Edinburgh University, and completed an MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. Since leaving university, she has lived in London, Western Australia and Indonesia. In 2013, her first novel,… Read more »
Simon Parker
Simon Parker is a British travel writer, author, filmmaker, public speaker and broadcast journalist; and has reported from over 100 countries in the past decade – from Bhutan and French Polynesia to Hawaii and Namibia, via Svalbard, Greenland and Saint Helena. In 2016, he sailed and cycled from China to London in 133 days, for… Read more »
Dean Browne
Dean Browne is from County Tipperary and currently lives in Cork. He received the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2021. His chapbook Kitchens at Night was a winner of the Poetry Business International Pamphlet Competition, and published by Smith|Doorstop in 2022. His poems have appeared widely in journals such as the New York Review of Books,… Read more »
Jenny Lau
Jenny Lau is the author of An A-Z of Chinese Food (Recipes Not Included) (Renegade, 2025), an exploration of food, language, identity and the Chinese diaspora, featured in Observer Food Monthly, The Sunday Times, AnOther and iPaper. She is the founder of Celestial Peach, a multidisciplinary platform established in 2018 to tell and connect stories… Read more »
Tomila Lankina
Tomila Lankina is Professor at the International Relations Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science. She received her DPhil from the University of Oxford (St Antony’s and Balliol colleges). She has worked on democracy and authoritarianism, mass protests and historical drivers of human capital and political regimes in Russia and other countries;… Read more »