Alice Miles
Alice Miles has been with The Times since 1999. She began as a Parliamentary Sketch writer before becoming a columnist, writing mainly on politics and national issues such as education and health.
Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan is an author, academic and journalist. He holds a PhD from Harvard in political science, and is a former editor of The New Republic. His 1995 book, Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality, became one of the best-selling books on gay rights. He has been a regular columnist for The Sunday Times since the 1990s, and also writes for Time and other publications.
Anjana Ahuja
Anjana Ahuja joined The Times in 1994 as a graduate
trainee. She holds a PhD in space physics from Imperial
College, London, and analysed data from the Ulysses
mission to the Sun's magnetic poles. In her Science
Notebook she writes about science, medicine and
technology, and their impact on society.
Ben Macintyre
Ben Macintyre is Writer at Large for The Times and contributes a regular Friday column. His earlier roles at The Times include being editor of the Weekend Review, parliamentary sketchwriter and bureau chief in Washington and Paris. He has also published a number of historical non-fiction books.
Bronwen Maddox
Bronwen Maddox is Chief Foreign Commentator of The Times.
Caitlin Moran
Caitlin Moran was a published author at the age of 16 and went on to be one of the new wave of music journalists at Melody Maker in the mid-1990s. She has been writing for The Times since 1999, mainly on popular culture.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Libby Purves
Libby Purves worked for some years for BBC Radio 4, as a reporter and a presenter on the Today programme and, since 1983, has presented Midweek. She joined The Times as a columnist in 1990. She received an OBE in 1999 for her services to journalism and was Columnist of the Year in the same year. In her spare time she writes bestselling novels. Her opinion column appears in the The Times on Tuesdays.
Magnus Linklater
Magnus Linklater's journalistic career spans 40 years, taking him from editor of Londoner's Diary at the Evening Standard to editor of Spectrum and the Colour Magazine at The Sunday Times and editor of The Scotsman. He joined The Times in 1994 and writes a weekly column on Wednesdays. He was chairman of the Scottish Arts Council from 1996 to 2001, and often writes on Scottish issues.
Martin Samuel
Martin Samuel has been a sports writer and columnist for The Times since 2002. His football column appears every Wednesday and on Tuesdays he writes for the op-ed pages.
Matthew Parris
Matthew Parris joined The Times as parliamentary sketchwriter in 1988, a role he held until 2001. He had formerly worked for the Foreign Office and been a Conservative MP from 1979-86. He has published many books on travel and politics and an autobiography, Chance Witness, for which he won the 2004 Orwell Prize. His diary appears in The Times on Thursdays, and his Opinion column on Saturdays.
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.
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.
Minette Marrin
Minette Marrin is a journalist, broadcaster and fiction writer. She is a columnist for The Sunday Times, and has also written for The Spectator, The Asian Wall Street Journal, The Observer and The Literary Review. She regularly contributes to television and radio programmes.
Peter Riddell
Peter Riddell has been a leading political commentator and an Assistant Editor for The Times since 1991. He writes mainly, but not exclusively, about British politics and has published several books on British politics, including not one, but two, on Margaret Thatcher.
Richard Morrison
Having started his career at Classical Music magazine, Richard Morrison became a music critic at The Times in 1984, and Arts Editor from 1990-99. As a columnist he writes mainly on music, arts and culture, and has been chief music critic since 2001.
Rosemary Righter
Rosemary Righter has worked for the Far Eastern Economic Review and Newsweek in Asia, as development and diplomatic correspondent of The Sunday Times and as chief leader writer at The Times, where she is now an associate editor. She has written four books, including a history of the United Nations.
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.
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.
William Rees-Mogg
William Rees-Mogg has had a distinguished career with The Times and The Sunday Times. He was Deputy Editor of The Sunday Times before becoming Editor of The Times in 1967, a position he held until 1981. He was made a life peer in 1988. Since 1992 he has been a columnist for The Times, writing on a variety of issues. He has also been chairman of the Broadcast Standards Council and British Arts Council.