Crispin Black

is a former Welsh Guards lieutenant colonel and intelligence analyst for the British government's Joint Intelligence Committee. His book, 7-7: What Went Wrong, was one of the first to be published after the London bombings in July 2005.

Antonia Bland

writes for The Week on fashion, sexuality and body politics. She lives in New York and London. 

Jack Bremer

Jack Bremer is a London-based reporter, attached to The Week.co.uk. He has reported regularly from the United States and France.

Colin Brown

is a former deputy political editor of the Independent. He is the author of Fighting Talk: the Biography of John Prescott and of Whitehall: the Street that Shaped a Nation, published in 2009 by Simon & Schuster.

Peter Burden

Peter Burden is the author of News of the World? Fake Sheikhs and Royal Trappings. He is a regular contributor on the subject of the phone-hacking scandal.

Michael Bywater

Bywater

is the author of Big Babies (about the silliness of the Baby Boomers), Lost Worlds (about things which have vanished) and, with Kathleen Burk, The Secret Life of Wine. He has also written computer games, taught Tragedy at Cambridge and is a regular broadcaster.

David Cairns

is a freelance journalist and filmmaker from Edinburgh who taught journalism in Somalia and Kenya.

Matthew Carr

is a writer and broadcaster based in Derbyshire. He has reported on the Mafia wars in Sicily, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and human rights abuses in Central America. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir My Father's House (Penguin), about his childhood in the Caribbean, Unknown Soldiers: How Terrorism Transformed the Modern World (Profile Books) and The Infernal Machine (New Press), which takes an in-depth look at the way in which terrorism has evolved.

Robert Chesshyre

Robert Chesshyre is a former US correspondent of The Observer and author of The Return of a Native Reporter and The Force: Inside the Police. He writes occasionally for The Week as well as The Daily Telegraph Magazine and the New Statesman.

Neil Clark

is a writer, broadcaster and blogger whose work has appeared in publications as diverse as The American Conservative, the Guardian and Pravda. He also tutors students in international relations, business management, politics and history at Oxford Tutorial College. He is co-founder of the Campaign For Public Ownership.

 

Hollie Clemence

Hollie Clemence is a London-based reporter attached to The Week.co.uk. She has worked on newspapers and magazines in Shanghai and Ghana.

Alexander Cockburn

Alexander Cockburn

is the co-author (with Jeffrey St Clair) of Whiteout, the CIA, Drugs and the Press and The Golden Age is In Us (about the Reagan, Bush and Clinton years). He co-edits the political newsletter and website counterpunch.org. He lives in northern California.

Tim Collins

soldier, author, columnist, broadcaster and commentator, he served with the British Army, including eight years as an officer in the elite Special Air Service. Since leaving the Army his memoirs, Rules of Engagement: A Life in Conflict, have been published by Headline.

Clare Conway

is a freelance reporter who has worked with The Sunday Times and Stylist Magazine.

Johnny Dee

Johnny Dee writes about pop music and television for The Week.co.uk. He has worked for Smash Hits, NME, Vox and The Times.

Tim Edwards

Tim Edwards is managing editor of The Week.co.uk. He was formerly an editor at Yahoo UK. He has edited and written for various consumer publications.

Richard Ehrman

was a government special adviser in the Employment Department and the Northern Ireland Office during the 1980s. In the 1990s he was chief leader writer of The Daily Telegraph, and has contributed to The Times, Independent and Spectator. He is currently the deputy chairman of Policy Exchange, the leading centre right think tank, and also a consultant director of Politeia. In 2009 he published The Power of Numbers, Why Europe Needs To Get Younger, a survey of global demographic trends.

Robert Fox

is a writer on Western defence issues and Italian current affairs. He has worked for the Corriere della Sera in Milan, covered the Falklands invasion for BBC Radio, and worked as defence correspondent for The Daily Telegraph. His books include The Inner Sea: the Mediterranean and its People.

Jonathan Harwood

Jon Harwood is deputy managing editor of The Week.co.uk. He has edited and written for national newspapers in the UK and spent several years in the South Pacific.

Jessica Hatcher

Jessica Hatcher is a freelance journalist living in Nairobi. She has written for newspapers and magazines including the Telegraph Magazine, Telegraph Travel, ESMagazine, The Times and The Sunday Times. She is also a regular contributor to IRIN, Interfax and Think Africa Press.

Rachel Helyer-Donaldson

Rachel Helyer-Donaldson writes for The Week.co.uk about film and the arts. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, the Irish Independent, and the New Zealand Herald.

Nigel Horne

Nigel Horne is Editor of The Week.co.uk. He was formerly Editor of The First Post. He has held executive roles at The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times.

Charles Laurence

Charles Laurence is a US correspondent for The Week.co.uk. He is a former New York bureau chief for The Daily Telegraph. He divides his time between Manhattan and Woodstock, upstate New York.

David Lindsay

is a writer based in Lanchester, County Durham, and a Tutor of Collingwood College, Durham. He has been an elected Parish Councillor in Lanchester since 1999, and previously served two four-year terms as a governor of two schools there. He is the author of Essays Radical and Orthodox and Confessions of an Old Labour High Tory.

Annemarie Lopez

Annemarie Lopez is a senior editor at The Week.co.uk. She is the former Editor of The Week Australia.

Donald Malcolm

is the pseudonym for a former lobby correspondent and Labour party spin doctor.

Bill Mann

Bill Mann is a football correspondent for The Week.co.uk, scouring the world's football press daily for the popular Transfer Talk column.

The Mole

is the pseudonym for a London-based political consultant who writes exclusively for The Week.co.uk.

Kieron Monks

Kieron Monks is a freelance journalist currently working for TheWeek.co.uk. He is associate editor of This Week in Palestine.

Gavin Mortimer

Gavin Mortimer is a rugby correspondent for The Week.co.uk. He is based in Paris. His books include /Chasing Icarus/ published by Walker Bloomsbury.

Stephen Overell

Stephen Overell is a commentator on work and labour market affairs. He is the author of Inwardness: The Rise of Meaningful Work and Losing Control Again? Power and the Quality of Working Life.



Linda Palermo

Linda Palermo writes on UK politics and international affairs for The Week.co.uk. She has contributed to several London newspapers, print and online.

Matilde Pratesi

Matilde Pratesi is social networking coordinator for TheWeek.com

Venetia Rainey

Venetia Rainey is an assistant editor at The Week.co.uk. She has written from London and Jerusalem for Reuters, The Guardian and Ha'aretz.

Ben Raworth

has worked for newspapers and magazines for over 20 years and has written on sports, news, popular culture and entertainment for The Independent, The Guardian, Total Sport, Maxim and many other publications.

Ben Riley-Smith

was an editorial assistant at The Week in 2011. He has written pieces for The Guardian and The Independent, and has now joined The Telegraph. www.twitter.com/benrileysmith

 

Kate Thomas

is a freelance journalist who has previously worked for France 24

Harry Underwood

is a London-based journalist. He has previously worked at News Review, a weekly in Santiago, and taught literature and history in Argentina.

Andrea Vogt

Andrea Vogt is an Italy correspondent for TheWeek.co.uk, based in Bologna. Her books include Common Courage, about white supremacist extremism in the US, and a collection of European true crime stories published by Rizzoli.

Ed Woodhouse

is a reporter associated with The Week.