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Martin Bright

Martin Bright has spent most of his career working for liberal newspapers. He began his career in the late 1980s writing about books and cinema for The Guardian, New Statesman and the now defunct City Limits. In 1996 he was appointed Education Correspondent at The Observer, where he also worked as Home Affairs Editor. In 2005 he became Political Editor of the New Statesman, a job which he left in January 2009. Martin has also presented several Dispatches documentaries for Channel 4 and is an expert on the UK government's relationship with radical Islam.

Clive Davis

Clive Davis blog covers culture, politics and life in general. Davis thinks that he has been blogging in spirit since 1973 when as a schoolboy he filled scrapbooks with newspaper clippings on the Watergate scandal. As well as blogging, Davis is a regular contributor of concert, reviews, comment pieces and profiles to newspapers including The Times and Sunday Times.

Alex Massie

Alex Massie is a freelance journalist, currently based in the Scottish Borders. He spent five years in Washington DC as a correspondent for The Scotsman and the Daily Telegraph. Prior to that he was Assistant Editor and Chief Leader Writer for Scotland on Sunday. He has also worked as a sports journalist and as a magazine feature writer. He blogs about American, British and Scottish politics and culture. And cricket.

Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips is a British journalist and author. She is best known for her controversial columns on political and social issues Awarded the Orwell Prize for journalism in 1996, she is the author of All Must Have Prizes, Londonistan and several other books. Styled a conservative by her opponents, she prefers to think of herself as defending authentic liberal values against the attempt to destroy western culture from within.