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Ian Dunt is a prominent voice in British political journalism, known for his incisive commentary and bestselling books including Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now?, How To Be A Liberal, and How Westminster Works \u2026 and Why It Doesn\u2019t. His experience as a columnist for the i and former Editor of politics.co.uk<\/a> \u2013 alongside his regular appearances as a political commentator on TV, radio, and podcasts \u2013 have made him a popular national commentator for many liberals and humanists.<\/p>\n

Samira Ahmed is an award-winning journalist, writer, and broadcaster (also a columnist) who presents Front Row on Radio 4, Newswatch on BBC1, and co-presents the vintage TV podcast Through The Square Window. Her BFI Film Classics book on the first Beatles\u2019 film A Hard Day\u2019s Night will be published by Bloomsbury in April 2026.<\/p>\n

Jim Al-Khalili is a quantum physicist and vice president of Humanists UK. He is currently Distinguished Emeritus Professor of physics at the University of Surrey as well as a science communicator known for his many popular science books, TV documentaries, and radio programmes, mostly for the BBC, including Radio 4\u2019s The Life Scientific.<\/p>\n

Stephen Bush is an associate editor and columnist at the\u00a0Financial Times. He writes a daily newsletter,\u00a0Inside Politics, charting the course of politics and policy in the United Kingdom, and a wide-ranging weekly column. He has also written for\u00a0The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The i Paper,\u00a0and\u00a0New Statesman.<\/p>\n

Kate Devlin is a leading expert on artificial intelligence and its societal impact based at King\u2019s College London. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots, examining the ethical and social implications of technology and intimacy. She represents Humanists UK as a Commissioner for the AI Faith & Civil Society Commission.<\/p>\n

Peter Geoghegan is an award-winning writer, broadcaster, and journalist. He runs the investigative website Democracy for Sale, which won a British Journalism Award in 2025 for its work on dark money in British politics. He previously served as editor-in-chief at openDemocracy, and has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, and The London Review of Books, and many others. He is also the author of Sunday Times bestseller Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics.<\/p>\n

AC Grayling is a philosopher and Principal of Northeastern University London. He has written and edited over thirty books on philosophy and other subjects, many bestsellers among them. He is a frequent contributor to the\u00a0Literary Review, the Observer, Independent on Sunday, the Times Literary Supplement, Index on Censorship,\u00a0and\u00a0New Statesman. He is also a frequent broadcaster on BBC Radio 4, 3, and the World Service.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Wolff is a philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Values and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. Prior to joining the Blavatnik School in 2016, Wolff\u2019s academic career had been spent at University College London, where he was, latterly, Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. He is President of The Royal Institute of Philosophy and a Fellow of the British Academy.<\/p>\n

Shaparak Khorsandi is a comedian, author, speaker, and human rights advocate. She has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows including\u00a0Mock The Week, 8 Out Of 10 Cats, Have I Got News For You, QI, Just a Minute, and other flagship Radio 4 programmes. She\u2019s taken part in several series of\u00a0Live At The Apollo\u00a0and\u00a0Michael McIntyre\u2019s Comedy Roadshow. She is a former columnist for the\u00a0Independent\u00a0and now for\u00a0New Humanist.<\/p>\n

Brian Klaas is Professor of Global Politics at University College London, an associate researcher at the University of Oxford, and a contributing writer for\u00a0The Atlantic. His books include\u00a0Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters\u00a0and\u00a0Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us. He writes the popular\u00a0The Garden of Forking Paths\u00a0Substack and created the award-winning\u00a0Power Corrupts podcast, which has been downloaded over three million times. He was named one of the 25 \u2018Top Thinkers\u2019\u00a0 globally by\u00a0Prospect\u00a0Magazine.<\/p>\n

Adam Rutherford is a scientist, writer, and broadcaster. He is a lecturer at University College London \u2013 where he teaches the history of eugenics, race science, genetics, and science communication \u2013 as well as at universities around the world. He is the author of a number of books relating to genetics and the origin of life, including the\u00a0Sunday Times\u00a0bestseller\u00a0How to Argue with a Racist. He is a regular podcaster for the BBC. His shows include\u00a0Start the Week,\u00a0The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry\u00a0(with Hannah Fry), and most\u00a0recently, The Human Subject\u00a0(with Julia Shaw).<\/p>\n

Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist and broadcaster and was formerly the BBC\u2019s Social Affairs Editor. She has won a National Press Award, has been the What The Papers Say and British Press Awards columnist of the year. Her recently published memoir is An Uneasy Inheritance \u2013 My family and other radicals. She sits on the editorial\u00a0 board of Political Quarterly.<\/p>\n

Laurie Taylor is emeritus professor of sociology at the University of York and a Fellow of Birkbeck College. Before entering academic life he worked as a librarian in Liverpool, taught in a London comprehensive school, and was a professional actor with Joan Littlewood\u2019s Theatre Workshop. He is the author of fourteen books on motivation, change, communication, and personal identity. Laurie can be regularly heard presenting Radio 4\u2019s Thinking Allowed, a programme, now in its twenty-sixth year, devoted to society and social change.<\/p>\n

Natasha Walter is a writer and campaigner. She is the author of several books, including Living Dolls: the Return of Sexism and the forthcoming Feminism for a World on Fire. She has worked as a journalist and columnist for The Guardian and The Independent, and founded the charity Women for Refugee Women, where she was director for 15 years. She has served as visiting professor at Cambridge University and is an honorary professor at Queen Mary University of London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ian Dunt is a prominent voice in British political journalism, known for his incisive commentary and bestselling books…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-419987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}