Rosa is a journalist from London. She primarily writes for U mag, a magazine that goes out to the 1.3 million members of UNISON, the public services union. She has also been published on the Guardian, The Independent, the New Humanist, the New Internationalist and others.

Adam Rutherford is a recovering geneticist, now science writer and broadcaster. He presents BBC Radio 4's Inside Science, and his most recent book, Creation (Viking 2013), concerned the origin of life, genetic engineering and synthetic biology.

Alessio Colonnelli is an Italian freelance journalist who has written for Open Democracy, The Independent, Foreign Policy, International Business Times and Politico Europe

Alex Mik is Campaigns and Communications Manager for Fair Trials, a London- and Brussels-based nongovernmental organisation campaigning for the right to a fair trial globally. It’s currently campaigning for better defence rights standards in Europe and is also leading research into the use (and abuse) of plea bargaining across the globe.

Alison Rooper is a documentary filmmaker and executive producer who makes films for broadcasters and organisations around the world. She got to know Central America during the 1980s when she authored the book Fragile Victory: a Nicaraguan Community at War. She recently completed a short film about the work of the UNDP in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8hQz4YpCA

Dr Andrew Holding is a Fellow in Biochemistry of Downing College, University of Cambridge and a Senior Research Associate at the CRUK Cambridge Institute researching the mechanisms behind breast cancer. Andrew has worked with many organisations, including The Guardian and the BBC, to engage the public on science as well as feminism, education and religion.

Anthony Nolan saves the lives of people with blood cancer who need a blood stem cell transplant.

Bill Thompson is a well-known technology journalist and advisor to arts and cultural organisations on matters related to digital technologies. He appears weekly on Click on BBC World Service radio and writes a monthly column for Focus magazine. He is Head of Partnership Development for the BBC Archive, a member of the boards of Writers’ Centre Norwich, Britten Sinfonia and The Collections Trust, and a Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Art.

Caroline Criado-Perez is a freelance journalist, feminist campaigner and co-founder of The Women's Room.

CISTA is a new political party. In the General Election we will campaign for a Royal Commission to review the UK's drug laws relating to cannabis.

Conor Purcell is a science writer with a PhD in Earth Science. You can read some of his other articles at cppurcell.tumblr.com

Cristina Marconi is a freelance writer, journalist and researcher based in London. After six years in Brussels as a correspondent for Italian media, and a fellowship at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalist in Oxford, she co-wrote Reporting the EU: News, Media and the European Institutions (IB Tauris 2014) with John Lloyd of the Financial Times, and worked as the head of research on a documentary about the European Union commissioned by the BBC.

Daniella Peled is an editor at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting and writes widely on foreign affairs

Dave Rich is deputy director of communications at the Community Security Trust, associate research fellow at the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, and author of The Left’s Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Antisemitism

David Swift is a historian and writer based in London. His new book, A Left for Itself, criticises the insularity and performative radicalism of the contemporary Left.

Digby O'Neal has a lifelong affinity for Ireland and a summer home in west Cork.

Dr Fergal Davis is a Reader in Public Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. He tweets about law and politics

Eleanor Turney is a freelance journalist, editor and arts consultant, and co-Director INCOMING Festival

Ellie Mae O'Hagan is a journalist writing mainly for the Guardian and Independent. She also works for the Centre for Labour and Social Studies (Class), a think tank focusing on the labour market and inequality.

Fergal Keane is a foreign correspondent for the BBC and a writer. His books include Road of Bones, All These People, Season of Blood and Letter to Daniel.

Gabrielle Guillemin is Senior Legal Officer at freedom of expression organisation ARTICLE 19. Her work focuses on platform regulation and Internet users' rights. She previously worked as a lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights.

Garvan Walshe grew up in Argentina. He has been National and International Security Adviser to the Conservative Party and writes a regular column for Conservative Home. He now runs Brexit Analytica.

Glenn Patterson is a Belfast-born novelist and essayist

Houman Barekat is a book critic based in London. His reviews have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the Spectator, Literary Review, the Irish Times and elsewhere. He is co-editor (with Robert Barry and David Winters) of The Digital Critic: Literary Culture Online, forthcoming from O/R Books. 

Ian Dunt is editor of Politics.co.uk, political editor of the Erotic Review and a commentator on various TV channels, radio stations and newspapers

The Institute for War & Peace Reporting gives voice to people at the frontlines of conflict and transition to help them drive change.

Jack pOp is the co-founder of AIM Small UK Label of The Year 2013 Alcopop! Records, a label very much dedicated to the joy of buying physical records, and a firm believer in creativity, personality and genuine love for music over big budget spending. Over the years they have released stuff of on bicycles, frisbees and wrestling masks working with the likes of established heroes johnny foreigner, Fight Like Apes, Anamanaguchi and Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly as well as some brutally exciting new bands like Waylayers, Brawlers and Get Inuit. Jack rates Jurassic Park as by far the greatest film of all time.

James Ball is a special correspondent at BuzzFeed, having previously worked at the Guardian, TBIJ and WikiLeaks. He has reported on multiple major investigations, including the Snowden Files, the Iraq War Logs, Cablegate and the HSBC Files

James is a specialist in Middle East North Africa region, covering politics and economics. He works for a number of organisations, including Transparency International, African Development Bank, Sasakawa Africa Association, Interpal, the Economist Intelligence Unit, Gulf States Newsletter and Middle East Economic Digest (MEED).

James Kirchick is a fellow with the Foreign Policy Initiative in Washington, a correspondent for The Daily Beast and a columnist for Tablet. His first book, The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age, is forthcoming from Yale University Press.

James Trevelyan grew up in the Midlands and now lives in South London. He has an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway. His poems have appeared in various print and online magazines, and anthologies including Eyewear's Best New British & Irish Poets 2017. He works for the Poetry School and for independent publisher, Penned in the Margins. His debut pamphlet, DISSOLVE to: L.A., was published by the Emma Press in March 2016.

Jamie Bartlett is Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, which is a collaboration between Demos and the University of Sussex. The Centre combines computer and social sciences for policy research. Jamie’s work focuses on the ways in which social media and modern communications and technology are changing political and social movements, with a special emphasis on terrorism and radical politics. Jamie is author of The Dark Net, (William Heinemann, 2013), and Radicals (Penguin, 2017)

Jason Walsh is the Ireland correspondent of the Boston-based Christian Science Monitor newspaper and a researcher at the school of philosophy at University College Dublin

Jess McCabe is a journalist, most commonly found writing about social housing for Inside Housing magazine, where she's features editor. Past crimes include editing the feminist site The F-Word (www.thefword.org.uk)

Jo Marchant is an award-winning science journalist based in London. She has a PhD in genetics and medical microbiology from St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College in London, and an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College London. She has worked as an editor at New Scientist and at Nature and her articles have appeared in publications including The Guardian, Wired, and The Observer Review. She’s the author of Decoding the Heavens, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Royal Society Prize for Science Books, and The Shadow King. Her latest book is Cure: A Journey Into the Science of Mind Over Body.

Joe Sandler Clarke is a journalist based in London who works for Greenpeace's investigations unit, as well as writing for the Guardian and Vice.

John writes books, poems and stories for Radio 4 including Radio Head and John Peel's Shed.

Josh Cohen is a writer, psychoanalyst and Professor of Literary Theory at Goldsmiths University of London. He is the author of many books and articles, most recently The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark.

Josh Neicho is a freelance writer and subeditor at The World Weekly

JS Rafaeli is a writer and musician based in London. He is the author of Live at the Brixton Academy, and a frequent contributor to Vice

Katy Evans-Bush is a poet, blogger and freelance writer. Her blog, Baroque in Hackney, was shortlisted for the 2012 George Orwell Prize for political writing, and she writes reviews and features for a number of magazines. Her book of essays, Forgive the Language: Essays on Poetry and Poets, will be published in December by Penned in the Margins. She lives in London, where she also teaches poetry.

Keith Kahn-Harris’s books include Denial: The Unspeakable Truth (2018) and Strange Hate: Antisemitism, Racism and the Limits of Diversity (2019).

Lesley Robinson is a Senior Research Assistant at Northumbria University, working on the ESRC funded project "European, Ethnic and Expatriate", which looks at British and German expat life in Asia

In the particle of me that cares for this, I betrayed those little atoms with a kiss

Maeve Higgins brings the pain - of laughter! She is a comedian standing at 6”4 or thereabouts. She is working on her second book and living in America, for the smiles and portion sizes.

Marie Le Conte is a French freelance journalist living in London. Her latest book is Haven't You Heard: Gossip, Power and how Politics Really Works.

Martin Robbins is a writer and talker at the messy border of science and culture. He is a columnist at VICE, and blogs for The Guardian and the New Statesman.

Michael Hughes is originally from the town of Keady, near the border in Northern Ireland. His first novel The Countenance Divine was published by John Murray in 2016, followed in 2018 by Country, a retelling of the Iliad set during the Northern Ireland conflict, which won the London Hellenic Prize, and was shortlisted for the EU Prize for Literature. He teaches Creative Writing at Queen Mary, University of London.

Mimsy is an artist who wishes to remain anonymous

Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She writes for the Guardian, and the Independent. Her first novel, The Amber Fury, has been published to great acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, as was The Ancient Guide to Modern Life, her previous book. She has spoken on the modern relevance of the classical world on three continents, from Cambridge to Chicago to Auckland. She is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4: reviewing for Front Row and Saturday Review, appearing as a team captain on three seasons of Wordaholics, and banging on about Juvenal whenever she gets the chance. A second series of her show, Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics, will be broadcast on Radio 4 next year. Her documentary on the Defining Beauty exhibition at the British Museum, Secret Knowledge: The Body Beautiful aired in 2015 on BBC4 in the UK and on BBC World News everywhere else. She was a judge for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction, the 2013 Man Booker Prize, and the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

Niamh Mulvey is a London-based Irish writer. Her first book, a short story collection called Hearts and Bones, will be published by Picador in June 2022; her novel, The Amendments will publish in 2023. Her work has been featured in The Stinging Fly, Banshee, Southword, the Irish Times and Unherd. Image: Kate Elliott

Nick Cohen is a journalist, author and political commentator. He is a columnist for the Observer, a blogger for the Spectator and TV critic for Standpoint magazine. His books include You Can't Read This Book, What's Left? and Pretty Straight Guys

Nisha Damji is a co-founder of Dulwich2Dunkirk, a grassroots network of non-league football fans in solidarity with refugees. She is also a Dulwich Hamlet fan.

Oz Katerji is a journalist, writer and filmmaker with a focus on the Middle East.

Pam Cowburn is Communications Director of Open Rights Group

Economics editor, Channel 4 News. Exec Producer: “Greece: Dreams Take Revenge”

Péter Nádori is a journalist and editor, former editor-in-chief of Origo, current chief content officer of Lapcom, a Hungarian media company. In 2015/2016, he spent a few months as a so-called pre-doctoral resident fellow at CEU’s Center for Media and Communication Studies. He does not recall having been brainwashed during his time there. But he would say that, wouldn’t he?

Phil Ormrod is a writer, theatre maker and teacher of various things. He’s co-director of the performance company Switchback. He’s made and performed in work all over the country, at theatres of all sizes and sorts, but his favourite venue so far has been Preston Bus Station. Google it and you’ll see what he means. Phil’s especially interested in ethics, language and food. At some point he’d like to turn all the road signs on the A1 into a "choose your own adventure" story.

Rachel Buchanan is a freelance arts manager. In her own creative practice she won one of Knit Now magazine's inaugural Knitters of the Year awards in 2016 and was Vice Chair of the Camden Poetry Group for several years, including editing two of their anthologies. In her spare time amongst other things she is currently a trustee of Artspace Lifespace, a Bristol-based charity that turns derelict spaces into artist studios, galleries and performance spaces, and offers mentoring and support to a variety of small arts organisations.

Rashad Ali is a Fellow at Institute of Strategic Dialogue and author of "Blasphemy, Charlie Hebdo, Freedom of Belief and Expression" and "Political Participation - Refuting Extremist Separatism". He is a former member of Hizb ut-Tahrir and currently works in deradicalisation in the UK

Richard O'Brien writes poems, plays and academic criticism

Rohan Jayasekera is a journalist and online producer, developing investigative journalism and creative advocacy projects in conflict zones and repressive states. Formerly the deputy CEO of Index on Censorship and before that, managing editor of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting, he has reported from conflicts in Bosnia, Palestine, Afghanistan & Iraq.

Sabrina Mahfouz s a British Egyptian playwright, poet and screenwriter. She was awarded the 2014 Fringe First Award for her play Chef and her play Clean transferred to New York in 2014. Her poetry has been performed and produced for TV, radio and film, including in the recent Railway Nation: A Journey in Verse on BBC2. Mahfouz has an essay in the award-winning The Good Immigrant and has published eight works of drama with Bloomsbury. How You Might Know Me is her debut collection of poetry with Out-Spoken Press. She lives in London.

Samira Ahmed is a journalist. She presents Front Row on BBC Radio 4 and Newswatch on the BBC News Channel. Her documentary I Dressed Ziggy Stardust was first broadcast in 2013

Sarah Ditum is a journalist, feminist and critic. She's written for the New Statesman, the Guardian, the Spectator, Cosmopolitan and Grazia. She produces a podcast with her husband and serves on the executive committee of Abortion Rights, the UK's pro-choice campaign

Sashy Nathan is the co-founder lawyer of Commons, the not-for-profit criminal law firm and Director of Advocacy at 89up

Shiv Malik is an investigative correspondent for the Guardian, and author of The Messenger, published March 2016.

Sid Rodrigues is a scientist who currently works at Conway Hall Ethical Society in London. He worked in applied research in the life-sciences and forensics for one of Europe's largest independent science providers for ten years before jumping shark. He spent some of his previous life as a magician, musician, bar-tender and a collector of obscure novelty hits, but now spends time helping out the odd charity, researching obscure facts and breaking the internet.

Srdjan Cvijic is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Open Society European Policy Institute

Stephen Jorgenson-Murray is based in Frankfurt and has appeared in publications including CityMetric and Gizmodo UK. He writes about birds, science, space, maths, transport, Germany, food chemistry, and any combination of the above.

The Guyliner is a writer from London who talks about dating, relationships, LGBT issues and popular culture. He writes regular columns for Gay Times and GQ, and has also appeared in the Guardian, Irish Times, BuzzFeed and more.

Theopi Skarlatos is a reporter, documentary film-maker, and founder of Kallithea Films. Her documentary #ThisIsACoup tells the story of the showdown between Greece and the global financial elite in 2015. Love in the Time Of Crisis (2014) covers the social disintegration of Greece under austerity. She has worked for the BBC, Channel 4 and numerous independent production companies, As well as covering the economic crisis in both Greece and Cyprus, she has reported from destinations as varied as Rwanda, Iraqi Kurdistan and Jamaica. Follow Theopi on Twitter, and her writing via Medium.

Tom Copley was elected to the London Assembly in 2012, prior to which he worked for an anti-racism charity. He is City Hall Labour’s Housing Spokesperson and Chair of the Housing Committee. Tom is a trustee of the British Humanist Association and New Diorama Theatre and a patron of LGBT Labour.

Tracy King is a producer and writer. She runs an animation and videogame studio in London and writes a column on gaming culture in Custom PC. She owns three cats and has a world record for spoonbending.

Wessie du Toit is a freelance writer living in London. He writes about art, design, culture, politics, and history. You can find more of his work at wessiedutoit.com.