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The Times

Incisive, witty, entertaining, controversial and provocative, we publish some of the UK’s leading writers and commentators.

Lead columnists

Jeremy Clarkson

Jeremy Clarkson's career as car reviewer and BBC Top Gear presenter has made motoring into show business, but he has earned himself the description of an "equal opportunities loudmouth" for his opinionated commentary on all aspects of life, appearing weekly in The Sunday Times.

Simon Barnes

Simon Barnes is the multi-award-winning chief sportswriter at The Times. He also writes a Saturday column on wildlife. His 15 books include three novels and the best-selling How To Be A Bad Birdwatcher. His latest, The Meaning of Sport, was published last autumn. He lives in Suffolk with his family and five horses.

Daniel Finkelstein

Daniel Finkelstein is a weekly columnist and Comment Editor of The Times. His blog, Comment Central, is a personal round up of the best political opinion on the web. Before joining the paper in 2001, he was adviser to both Prime Minister John Major and Conservative leader William Hague.

David Aaronovitch

David Aaronovitch is a writer, broadcaster and commentator on international politics and the media. He writes for The Times Comment page on Tuesdays. He has previously written for The Guardian, The Observer and The Independent, winning numerous accolades, including Columnist of the Year 2003 and the 2001 Orwell prize for journalism. He has appeared on the satirical TV current affairs programme Have I Got News For You and made radio broadcasts on historical topics.

Camilla Cavendish

Camilla Cavendish has been a McKinsey management consultant, an aid worker, and CEO of a not-for-profit company. She is now a leader writer and columnist on The Times

Tim Hames

Tim Hames joined The Times in 1999 and is a columnist and Chief Leader Writer. He was previously a lecturer in American and British Politics at Oxford University.

Mick Hume

Mick Hume joined The Times in 2003, and his weekly Notebook column appears on Fridays. He is also the editor of www.spiked-online.com, the online descendant of Living Marxism, the magazine he launched in 1988 but which folded in 2000. Despite growing up in Woking, he is a Manchester United fan and has a season ticket at Old Trafford.

Michael Gove

Michael Gove is Conservative MP for Surrey Heath. He worked on The Times from 1995-2005. He makes regular appearances on BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze and The Late Review on BBC2, and has written a biography of Michael Portillo.

Janice Turner

Janice Turner joined The Times in 2003 from The Guardian, and writes mainly, but not exclusively, on family matters and women's issues. Her column appears on Saturdays.

Graham Stewart

Graham Stewart has written the Past Notes column for The Times since November 2005. He is the author of Burying Caesar: Churchill, Chamberlain and the Battle for the Tory Party and The History of The Times: The Murdoch Years. His next book Friendship and Betrayal is due to be published in April 2007. He is 36 and lives in London.

Jane Shilling

Jane Shilling's column appears in the paper every Friday. She lives in Greenwich and recently published a memoir The Fox in the Cupboard.