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Andrew Billen

Andrew Billen has worked as a celebrity interviewer for, successively, The Observer, the Evening Standard and, currently The Times. For his columns, he was awarded reviewer of the year in 2006 Press Gazette Magazine Awards.

Alex Brummer

Alex Brummer is the City Editor of the Daily Mail and author of the acclaimed book The Crunch: How Greed and Incompetence Sparked the Credit Crisis. He previously worked at the Guardian where he was successively Foreign Editor, Financial Editor and Assistant Editor. Widely regarded as one of Britain's top financial journalists, he writes a column on economics for the New Statesman.

Rachel Cooke

Rachel Cooke trained as a reporter on The Sunday Times. She is now a writer at The Observer. In the 2006 British Press Awards, she was named Interviewer of the Year.

Hunter Davies

Hunter Davies is a journalist, broadcaster and profilic author perhaps best known for writing about the Beatles. He is an ardent Tottenham fan and writes a regular column on football for the New Statesman.

Gideon Donald

Gideon Donald first met David Cameron at Heatherdown preparatory school in Berkshire. Their friendship continued to prosper at Eton and the Bullingdon Club. His column Preparing For Power draws on his remarkable access to Cameron's coterie. Despite threatening to resign after guest editor Alastair Campbell spiked his article, Gideon continues to write weekly for the New Statesman.

Ryan Gilbey

Ryan Gilbey is the author of It Don't Worry Me (Faber), about 1970s US cinema, and a study of Groundhog Day in the 'Modern Classics' series (BFI Publishing). He was named reviewer of the year in the 2007 Press Gazette awards and he is the New Statesman's film critic..

Martin Jacques

Martin Jacques is a journalist and academic. He is currently a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre and at the National University of Singapore. Jacques previously edited Marxism Today and co-founded the think-tank Demos in 1993. He writes the World Citizen column for the New Statesman. His new book on the rise of China, When China Rules the World, will be published in June.

Nicholas Lezard

Nicholas Lezard is a literary critic for the Guardian and also writes for the Independent. He writes the Down and Out in London column for the New Statesman.

James Macintyre

James Macintyre is political correspondent for the New Statesman. Before that he was a reporter at the Independent, specialising in religious affairs and politics, after moving across to print journalism from television, where he was producer of LWT's Dimbleby programme and BBC1's Question Time.

Kevin Maguire

Kevin Maguire is Associate Editor(Politics) on the Daily Mirror and author of our Village Life column on the high politics and low life in Westminster. The award-winning journalist is in frequent demand on TV and Radio and co-authored a book on Great Parliamentary Scandals. He was formerly Chief Reporter on The Guardian and Labour Correspondent on the Daily Telegraph.

Shazia Mirza

Shazia Mirza is an award-winning stand up comedian. In 2003 she was named by The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. Since 2006 she has written a fortnightly column for the New Statesman, for which she won Columnist of the Year at the PPA Awards.

John Pilger

John Pilger, renowned investigative journalist and documentary film-maker, is one of only two to have twice won British journalism's top award; his documentaries have won academy awards in both the UK and the US. In a New Statesman survey of the 50 heroes of our time, Pilger came fourth behind Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela. "John Pilger," wrote Harold Pinter, "unearths, with steely attention facts, the filthy truth. I salute him."

Antonia Quirke

Antonia Quirke is an author and journalist. Her novel Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers was published in 2007. She writes a column on radio for the New Statesman and also writes for the First Post and the Sunday Times.

Steve Richards

Steve Richards is chief political commentator for the Independent and a contributing editor of the New Statesman. He writes a monthly column on British politics for the magazine. He is also a popular broadcaster and a presenter of Radio 4's The Week in Westminster. His new book Whatever It Takes: The Inside Story of Gordon Brown and New Labour will be published this autumn.