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A. C. Grayling
Anthony Clifford Grayling (born 3 April 1949), usually known as A. C. Grayling, is a British philosopher and author.
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A. S. Byatt
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy HonFBA (née Drabble; born 24 August 1936), known professionally as A. S. Byatt, is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner.
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Aardman Animations
Aardman Animations, Ltd., also known as Aardman Studios, or simply as Aardman, is a British animation studio based in Bristol.
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Adrian Tinniswood
Adrian John Tinniswood OBE (born 1954) is an English writer and historian.
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Alaa Al Aswany
Alaa Al-Aswany (علاء الأسواني,; born 26 May 1957) is an Egyptian writer, and a founding member of the political movement Kefaya.
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Alan Davies
Alan Roger Davies ("Davis"; born 6 March 1966) is an English stand-up comedian, writer and actor.
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Alan Sokal
Alan David Sokal (born January 24, 1955) is a professor of mathematics at University College London and professor of physics at New York University.
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Alan Weisman
Alan H. Weisman (born March 24, 1947) is an American author, professor, and journalist.
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Albie Sachs
Albert "Albie" Louis Sachs (born 30 January 1935) is an activist and a former judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
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Amartya Sen
Amartya Kumar Sen, CH, FBA (born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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Andrea Levy
Andrea Levy (born 7 March 1956) is an English novelist, born in London to Jamaican parents, who sailed to England on the Empire Windrush in 1948.
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Andrew Anthony
Andrew Anthony is a journalist who has written for The Guardian since 1990, and The Observer.
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Andrew Mawson, Baron Mawson
Andrew Mawson, Baron Mawson, OBE (born 8 November 1954) is an English social entrepreneur.
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Andrew Roberts (historian)
Andrew Roberts (born 13 January 1963) is a British historian and journalist.
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Animal rights
Animal rights is the idea in which some, or all, non-human animals are entitled to the possession of their own lives and that their most basic interests—such as the need to avoid suffering—should be afforded the same consideration as similar interests of human beings.
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Annie Leonard
Annie Louise Leonard (born 1964) is an American proponent of sustainability and a critic of consumerism.
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Anthony Julius
Anthony Robert Julius (born 16 July 1956) is a British solicitor advocate and academic, known among other things for his actions on behalf of Diana, Princess of Wales and Deborah Lipstadt.
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Antonia Fraser
Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, (née Pakenham; born 27 August 1932) is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction.
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Aravind Adiga
Aravind Adiga (born 23 October 1974) is an Indo-Australian writer and journalist.
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Arnolfini
Arnolfini is an international arts centre and gallery in Bristol, England.
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Arts Council England
Arts Council England is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
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Astrid Proll
Astrid Huberta Isolde Marie Luise Hildegard Proll (born 29 May 1947) was an early member of the Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Gang).
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Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich (born August 26, 1941) is an American author and political activist who describes herself as "a myth buster by trade" and has been called "a veteran muckraker" by The New Yorker.
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Ben Crystal
Ben Crystal (born 1977) is an English actor, author, and producer, best known for his work on performing and promoting William Shakespeare using original practices, especially in the "original pronunciation".
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Ben Goldacre
Ben Michael Goldacre (born 20 May 1974) is a British physician, academic and science writer.
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Ben Macintyre
Benedict Richard Pierce Macintyre (born 25 December 1963) is a British author, historian, reviewer and columnist writing for The Times newspaper.
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Ben Shephard
Benjamin Peter Sherrington Shephard (born 11 December 1974) is an English television presenter and journalist who is currently employed by ITV and Sky Sports (albeit for Goals on Sunday only).
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Bernhard Schlink
Bernhard Schlink (born 6 July 1944 in Bielefeld) is a German lawyer, Professor of the Philosophy of Law and writer.
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Billy Bragg
Stephen William "Billy" Bragg (born 20 December 1957) is an English singer-songwriter and left-wing political activist.
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Brian Eno
Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, RDI (born Brian Peter George Eno; 15 May 1948) is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, writer, and visual artist.
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Brian Patten
Brian Patten (born 29 February 1946) is an English poet and author.
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Bristol
Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.
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Bristol City Council
Bristol City Council is the local authority of Bristol, England.
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Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery is a large museum and art gallery in Bristol, England.
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Brooke Magnanti
Brooke Magnanti (born 5 November 1975) is an American-born naturalised British former research scientist, blogger, and writer, who, until her identity was revealed in November 2009, was known by the pen name Belle de Jour.
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Bruce Hood (psychologist)
Bruce MacFarlane Hood is a Canadian-born British experimental psychologist who specialises in developmental cognitive neuroscience.
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Bryan Appleyard
Bryan Appleyard (born 24 August 1951, Manchester) is a British journalist and author.
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C. P. Snow
Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow, CBE (15 October 1905 – 1 July 1980) was a novelist and English physical chemist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government.
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Carmen Callil
Dame Carmen Thérèse Callil, DBE (born 15 July 1938) is an Australian publisher, writer and critic.
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Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.
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Charles Handy
Charles Handy CBE (born 1932) is an Irish author/philosopher specialising in organisational behaviour and management.
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Charles Leadbeater
Charles Leadbeater (formerly known as Charlie Leadbeater) is a British author and former advisor to Tony Blair.
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Chris Anderson (writer)
Chris Anderson (born July 9, 1961) is a British-American author and entrepreneur.
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Chris Patten
Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, (born 12 May 1944) is a British politician who served as the 28th and final Governor of Hong Kong from 1992-1997.
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Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury
Christopher Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, PC (born 24 July 1951) is a British politician and a peer; a former Member of Parliament (MP) and Cabinet Minister; and former chairman of the Environment Agency.
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Christopher Brookmyre
Christopher Brookmyre (born 6 September 1968) is a Scottish novelist whose novels mix comedy, politics, social comment and action with a strong narrative.
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Christopher Caldwell (journalist)
Christopher Caldwell (born 1962) is an American journalist and senior editor at The Weekly Standard, as well as a regular contributor to the Financial Times and Slate.
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Christopher Frayling
Sir Christopher John Frayling (born 25 December 1946) is a British educationalist and writer, known for his study of popular culture.
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Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was an Anglo-American author, columnist, essayist, orator, religious and literary critic, social critic, and journalist.
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City Hall, Bristol
City Hall (formerly the Council House) has been the seat of local government in Bristol, United Kingdom, since 1956 (before then the seat was in the Old Council House on Corn Street).
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Claudia Hammond
Claudia Hammond (born 23 May 1971) is British author, occasional TV presenter, and frequent radio presenter with the BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4.
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Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky (born 1964) is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies and journalism.
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Clive Stafford Smith
Clive Adrian Stafford Smith OBE (born 9 July 1959) is a British attorney who specialises in the areas of civil rights and working against the death penalty in the United States of America.
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Colin Blakemore
Sir Colin Brian Blakemore, (born 1 June 1944), is a British neurobiologist, specialising in vision and the development of the brain, who is Professor of Neuroscience and Philosophy in the School of Advanced Study, University of London and Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. He was formerly Chief Executive of the British Medical Research Council (MRC). He is best known to the public as a communicator of science but also as the target of a long-running animal rights campaign. According to The Observer, he has been both "one of the most powerful scientists in the UK" and "a hate figure for the animal rights movement".McKie, Robin.. The Observer, 14 September 2003.
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Colin Tudge
Colin Hiram Tudge (born 22 April 1943) is a British science writer and broadcaster.
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Daniel Dennett
Daniel Clement Dennett III (born March 28, 1942) is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.
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Darwinism
Darwinism is a theory of biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.
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David Aaronovitch
David Morris Aaronovitch (born 8 July 1954) is an English journalist, television presenter and author.
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David Attenborough
Sir David Frederick Attenborough (born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster and naturalist.
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David Crystal
David Crystal, (born 6 July 1941) is a British linguist, academic and author.
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David Eagleman
David Eagleman (born April 25, 1971) is an American writer and neuroscientist, teaching at Stanford University as an in the department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences.
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David Edgerton (historian)
Professor David Edgerton was educated at St John's College, Oxford and Imperial College London.
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David Puttnam
David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam, (born 25 February 1941) is a British film producer and educator.
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Deyan Sudjic
Deyan Sudjic, (born 6 September 1952) is a British writer and broadcaster, specializing in the fields of design and architecture.
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Dick King-Smith
Ronald Gordon King-Smith OBE, Hon.MEd (27 March 1922 – 4 January 2011), was a prolific English writer of children's books, primarily using the pen name Dick King-Smith.
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Dominic Sandbrook
Dominic Christopher Sandbrook (born 2 October 1974) is a British historian, author, columnist and television presenter.
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Dorothy Rowe
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Economic development
economic development wikipedia Economic development is the process by which a nation improves the economic, political, and social well-being of its people.
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Edward de Bono
Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono (born 19 May 1933) is a Maltese physician, psychologist, philosopher, author, inventor and consultant.
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Edzard Ernst
Edzard Ernst (born 30 January 1948) is an academic physician and researcher specializing in the study of complementary and alternative medicine.
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Ekow Eshun
Ekow Eshun (born 27 May 1968) is a Ghanaian-British writer, journalist, and broadcaster.
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Eric Sykes
Eric Sykes, (4 May 1923 – 4 July 2012) was an English radio, stage, television and film writer, comedian, actor, and director whose performing career spanned more than 50 years.
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European Capital of Culture
The European Capital of Culture is a city designated by the European Union (EU) for a period of one calendar year during which it organises a series of cultural events with a strong pan-European dimension.
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Evgeny Morozov
Evgeny Morozov (Russian: Евгений Морозов; Яўгені Марозаў; born in 1984) is a writer and researcher from Belarus who studies political and social implications of technology.
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Francis Spufford
Francis Spufford FRSL (born 1964) is an English author.
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Francis Wheen
Francis James Baird Wheen (born 22 January 1957) is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster.
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Gary Marcus
Gary F. Marcus (born February 8, 1970) is a scientist, author, and entrepreneur.
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Gary Younge
Gary Andrew Younge (born January 1969) is a British journalist, author and broadcaster.
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Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer (born 5 June 1958) is an English writer.
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Geoff Mulgan
Geoff Mulgan CBE (born 1961) is Chief Executive of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA) and Visiting Professor at University College London, the London School of Economics, and the University of Melbourne.
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George Ferguson (politician)
George Robin Paget Ferguson CBE, PPRIBA, RWA (born 22 March 1947) is a British politician, former architect and entrepreneur, who served as the first elected Mayor of Bristol from 2012 to 2016.
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Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century.
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Gerry Anderson
Gerry Anderson (born Gerald Alexander Abrahams; 14 April 1929 – 26 December 2012) was an English television and film producer, director, writer and occasional voice artist.
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Gillian Beer
Professor Dame Gillian Patricia Kempster Beer, (née Thomas; born 27 January 1935) is a British literary critic and academic.
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Gillian Tett
Gillian Tett (born 10 July 1967) is a British author and journalist at the Financial Times, where she is a markets and finance columnist and U.S. Managing Editor.
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Graham Swift
Graham Colin Swift FRSL (born 4 May 1949) is an English writer.
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Harriet Lamb
Harriet Lamb CBE (born 3 June 1961) is the Chief Executive Officer of peacebuilding organisation International Alert, a role she took in November 2015.
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Hue and Cry
Hue and Cry is a pop duo formed in 1983 in Coatbridge, Scotland, by brothers Pat Kane (vocals) and Greg Kane (music/production).
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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Hugh Christopher Edmund Fearnley-Whittingstall (born 14 January 1965) is an English celebrity chef, television personality, journalist, food writer and campaigner on food and environmental issues, known for his back-to-basics philosophy.
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Ian Stewart (mathematician)
Ian Nicholas Stewart (born 24 September 1945) is a British mathematician and a popular-science and science-fiction writer.
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859), was an English mechanical and civil engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th-century engineering giants", and "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions".
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Jack Cohen (scientist)
Jack Cohen, FRSB (born 19 September 1933 in Norwich, United Kingdom) is a British reproductive biologist also known for his science books and involvement with science fiction.
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James Bernard Harkin
James B. Harkin (30 January 1875 – 27 January 1955), also known as the Father of National Parks, was a Canadian-born journalist turned bureaucrat with a passion for conservation but also widely renowned for his commodification of the Canadian landscape.
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James Lovelock
James Ephraim Lovelock, (born 26 July 1919) is an independent scientist, environmentalist, and futurist who lives in Dorset, England.
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James Watson
James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist and zoologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin.
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Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde (born 11 January 1961) is a British novelist.
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Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Jean Moorcroft Wilson (born 3 October 1941) is a British academic and writer, best known as a biographer and critic of First World War poets and poetry.
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Jeremy Isaacs
Sir Jeremy Isaacs (born 28 September 1932) is a Scottish television producer and executive, winner of many BAFTA awards and international Emmy Awards.
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Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Donal Wales (born August 7, 1966), also known by the online moniker Jimbo, is an American Internet entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia, and the for-profit web hosting company Wikia.
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Joan Bakewell
Joan Dawson Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell, DBE (née Rowlands; born 16 April 1933) is an English journalist, television presenter and Labour Party Peer.
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Joanna Bourke
Joanna Bourke FBA (born 1963) is an historian and academic.
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John Armstrong (British writer/philosopher)
John Armstrong (born 1966) is a British writer and philosopher living in Hobart, Australia.
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John Boorman
John Boorman, CBE (born 18 January 1933) is an English filmmaker who is best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Hell in the Pacific, Deliverance, Zardoz, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, The General, The Tailor of Panama and Queen and Country.
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John Carey (critic)
John Carey (born 5 April 1934) is a British literary critic, and post-retirement (2002) emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford.
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John Cornwell (writer)
John Cornwell (born 1940) is a British journalist, author, and academic.
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John Gray (philosopher)
John Nicholas Gray (born 17 April 1948) is an English political philosopher with interests in analytic philosophy and the history of ideas.
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John Kampfner
John Kampfner is chief executive of the Creative Industries Federation, the national membership organisation for all the UK's arts, creative industries and cultural education.
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John Micklethwait
Richard John Micklethwait CBE (born 11 August 1962) is editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, a position he has held since February 2015.
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John Mortimer
Sir John Clifford Mortimer, CBE, QC (21 April 1923 – 16 January 2009) was an English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author.
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John O'Farrell (author)
John O'Farrell (born 27 March 1962) is a British author and comedy scriptwriter.
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John Prescott
John Leslie Prescott, Baron Prescott (born 31 May 1938) is a British politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007.
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John R. Bolton
John Robert Bolton (born November 20, 1948) is an American attorney, political commentator, Republican consultant and activist, government official and former diplomat who serves as the 27th National Security Advisor of the United States.
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John Tusa
Sir John Tusa (born 2 March 1936) is a British arts administrator, and radio and television journalist.
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Jon Ronson
Jon Ronson (born 10 May 1967) is a Welsh journalist, author, documentary filmmaker, screenwriter, and radio presenter whose works include the best-selling The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004) and The Psychopath Test (2011).
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Jonathan Kaplan
Jonathan Kaplan (born November 25, 1947) is an American film producer and director.
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Jonathan Miller
Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, CBE (born 21 July 1934) is an English theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humourist, and medical doctor.
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Julia Hobsbawm
Julia Hobsbawm OBE (born 15 August 1964) is a British writer and speaker on Social Health and modern connectedness and the author of Fully Connected: Social Health in an Age of Overload' (Bloomsbury paperback 2018).
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Julia Neuberger
Julia Babette Sarah Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger, DBE (née Schwab; born 27 February 1950) is a member of the British House of Lords.
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Julian Baggini
Julian Baggini (born 1968) is a British philosopher, and the author of several books about philosophy written for a general audience.
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Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong, (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator of Irish Catholic descent known for her books on comparative religion.
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Kate Adie
Kathryn Adie, (born 19 September 1945) is an English journalist.
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Kate Mosse
Katharine Louise Mosse OBE (born 20 October 1961), or Kate Mosse, is an English novelist, non-fiction and short story writer and broadcaster.
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Kate Pickett
Kate Pickett (born 1965), FRSA is a British epidemiologist who is Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York and was a National Institute for Health Research Career Scientist from 2007-2012.
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Ken Robinson (educationalist)
Sir Kenneth Robinson (born 4 March 1950) is a British author, speaker and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education and arts bodies.
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Kiran Desai
Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author.
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Leonard Susskind
Leonard Susskind (born 1940)his 60th birthday was celebrated with a special symposium at Stanford University.
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Lesley Chamberlain
Lesley Chamberlain (born 26 September 1951, Rochford, Essex) is a British journalist, travel writer and historian of Russian and German culture and has published short stories and novels and written about food.
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Lewis Wolpert
Lewis Wolpert CBE FRS FRSL FMedSci (born 19 October 1929) is a South African-born British developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster.
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Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey
Margaret Omolola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey (born 1 June 1951) is a British actress, author, and Crossbench peer.
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Madeleine Bunting
Madeleine Clare J. Bunting (born March 1964) is an English writer.
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Marcus du Sautoy
Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy (born 26 August 1965) is a British mathematician, author, and populariser of science and mathematics.
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Marek Kohn
Marek Kohn is a British science writer on evolution, biology and society.
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher and environmental activist.
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Martin Bell
Martin Bell, OBE, (born 31 August 1938) is a British UNICEF (UNICEF UK) Ambassador, a former broadcast war reporter and former independent politician who became the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton from 1997 to 2001.
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Matt Frei
Matthias "Matt" Frei (born 26 November 1963) is a German-born British television news journalist and writer, formerly the Washington, DC correspondent for Channel 4 News.
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Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, (born 6 October 1939), is an English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian.
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Michael Mansfield
Michael Mansfield (born 12 October 1941) is an English barrister.
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Michael Shermer
Michael Brant Shermer (born September 8, 1954) is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and editor-in-chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims.
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Mike Hodges
Michael Tommy "Mike" Hodges (born 29 July 1932) is an English screenwriter, film director, playwright and novelist.
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Misha Glenny
Misha Glenny (born 25 April 1958) is a multilingual British journalist, specialising in southeast Europe, global organised crime, and cybersecurity.
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Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus (মুহাম্মদ ইউনূস; born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist, and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance.
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Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization and of capitalism.
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Neal Lawson
Neal Lawson (born 1963) is a British political commentator.
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Niall Ferguson
Niall Campbell Ferguson (born 18 April 1964) Niall Ferguson is a conservative British historian and political commentator.
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Nick Cohen
Nicholas Cohen (born 1961) is a British journalist, author and political commentator.
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Nick Davies
Nicholas Davies (born 28 March 1953) is a British investigative journalist, writer and documentary maker.
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Nick Hornby
Nicholas Peter John Hornby (born 17 April 1957) is an English writer and lyricist.
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Norman Stone
Norman Stone (born 8 March 1941) is a Scottish historian and author.
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Oliver James (psychologist)
Oliver James (born 1953) is a chartered psychologist, registered with the British Psychological Society.
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Paddy Ashdown
Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, (born 27 February 1941), known as Paddy Ashdown, is a British politician and former diplomat who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until August 1999.
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Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra (born 1969) is an Indian essayist and novelist.
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Pat Kane
Patrick Mark "Pat" Kane (born 10 March 1964) is a Scottish musician, journalist, political activist and one half of the pop duo Hue and Cry with his younger brother Greg.
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Patrick Cockburn
Patrick Oliver Cockburn (born 5 March 1950) is an Irish journalist who has been a Middle East correspondent for the Financial Times since 1979 and, from 1990, The Independent.
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Paul Collier
Sir Paul Collier, (born 23 April 1949) is professor of economics and public policy in the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford.
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Paul Davies
Paul Charles William Davies, AM (born 22 April 1946) is an English physicist, writer and broadcaster, a professor at Arizona State University as well as the Director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science.
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Paul Nurse
Sir Paul Maxime Nurse (born 25 January 1949), is an English geneticist, former President of the Royal Society and Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute.
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Paul Ormerod
Paul Andrew Ormerod (born 20 March 1950) is a British economist who is a partner at Volterra Partners consultancy.
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Paul Rusesabagina
Paul Rusesabagina (born 15 June 1954) is a Rwandan humanitarian who, while working as a house manager at the Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali, hid and protected 1,200 Hutu and Tutsi refugees from the Interahamwe militia during the Rwandan genocide.
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Peter Hitchens
Peter Jonathan Hitchens (born 28 October 1951) is an English journalist and author.
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Peter Singer
Peter Albert David Singer, AC (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher.
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Peter Tatchell
Peter Gary Tatchell (born 25 January 1952) is a British human rights campaigner, originally from Australia, best known for his work with LGBT social movements.
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Philip Ball
Philip Ball (born 1962) is a British science writer.
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Philippe Sands
Philippe Sands, QC (born 17 October 1960) is British and French lawyer at Matrix Chambers, and Professor of Laws and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals at University College London.
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Phillip Blond
Phillip Blond (born 1 March 1966) is an English political philosopher, Anglican theologian, and director of the ResPublica think tank.
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Race (human categorization)
A race is a grouping of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into categories generally viewed as distinct by society.
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Raj Patel
Raj Patel (born 1972) is a British Indian academic, journalist, activist and writer.
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Raymond Tallis
Raymond C. Tallis (born 10 October 1946) is a philosopher, poet, novelist, cultural critic and a retired medical physician and clinical neuroscientist.
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Rebecca Goldstein
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (born February 23, 1950) is an American philosopher, novelist and public intellectual.
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Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author.
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Richard Dowden
Richard Dowden (born 20 March 1949 in Surrey, United Kingdom) is a British journalist who has specialised in African issues.
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Richard Fortey
Richard Alan Fortey FRS FRSL (born 15 February 1946 in London) is a British palaeontologist, natural historian, writer and television presenter, who served as President of the Geological Society of London for its bicentennial year of 2007; he is married and has four children.
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Richard G. Wilkinson
Richard Gerald Wilkinson (born 1943) is a British social epidemiologist, author and advocate.
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Richard Gregory
Richard Langton Gregory CBE FRS FRSE (24 July 1923 – 17 May 2010) was a British psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Bristol.
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Richard Holloway
Richard Holloway, FRSE (born 26 November 1933) is a Scottish writer, broadcaster and cleric.
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Richard Holmes (biographer)
Richard Gordon Heath Holmes, OBE, FRSL, FBA (born 5 November 1945) is a British author and academic best known for his biographical studies of major figures of British and French Romanticism.
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Richard J. Evans
Sir Richard John Evans (born 29 September 1947), is a British historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe with a focus on Germany.
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Richard Wentworth (artist)
Richard Wentworth (born 1947) is a British artist, curator and teacher.
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Robert Winston
Robert Maurice Lipson Winston, Baron Winston (born 15 July 1940) is a British professor, medical doctor, scientist, television presenter and Labour Party politician.
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Roger McGough
Roger McGough CBE, FRSL (born 9 November 1937) is an English poet, performance poet, broadcaster, children's author and playwright.
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Rose George
Rose George is a British journalist and author.
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Roy Hattersley
Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron Hattersley, PC, FRSL (born 28 December 1932) is a British Labour politician, author and journalist from Sheffield.
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Ruth Padel
Ruth Sophia Padel FRSL FZS (born 8 May 1946) is a British poet, novelist and non-fiction author, known for her nature writing and connections with music, science, Greece and conservation.
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Sarah Dunant
Sarah Dunant (born 8 August 1950) is a British novelist, journalist, broadcaster and critic.
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Sebastian Junger
Sebastian Junger (born January 17, 1962) is an American journalist, author and filmmaker famous for the best-selling book The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (1997), his award-winning chronicle of the war in Afghanistan in the documentary films Restrepo (2010) and Korengal (2014), and his book War (2010).
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Semir Zeki
Semir Zeki FMedSci FRS is a British neurobiologist who has specialised in studying the primate visual brain and more recently the neural correlates of affective states, such as the experience of love, desire and beauty that are generated by sensory inputs within the field of neuroesthetics.
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Shappi Khorsandi
Shaparak "Shappi" Khorsandi (شاپرک خرسندی, born 8 June 1973) is a British comedian and author of Iranian origin.
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Sheila Rowbotham
Sheila Rowbotham (born 1943) is a British socialist feminist theorist and writer.
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Simon Hoggart
Simon David Hoggart (26 May 1946 – 5 January 2014) was an English journalist and broadcaster.
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Simon Schama
Sir Simon Michael Schama, CBE, FRSL, FBA (born 13 February 1945) is an English historian specialising in art history, Dutch history, and French history.
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Simon Singh
Simon Lehna Singh, (born 19 September 1964) is a British popular science author, theoretical and particle physicist whose works largely contain a strong mathematical element.
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St George's Church, Brandon Hill
St George's Church is a former church in Great George Street, off Park Street, on the lower slopes of Brandon Hill in Bristol, England.
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Steve Bell (cartoonist)
Steven Bell (born 26 February 1951) is an English political cartoonist, whose work appears in The Guardian and other publications.
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Steve Fuller (sociologist)
Steve William Fuller (born 12 July 1959) is an American philosopher-sociologist in the field of science and technology studies.
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Steve Jones (biologist)
(John) Stephen Jones (born 24 March 1944) is a Welsh geneticist and from 1995 to 1999 and 2008 to June 2010 was Head of the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London.
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Steven Pinker
Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author.
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Stewart Brand
Stewart Brand (born December 14, 1938) is an American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog.
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Susan Blackmore
Susan Jane Blackmore (born 29 July 1951) is a British writer, lecturer, sceptic, broadcaster, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth, in Plymouth.
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Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield
Susan Adele Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield (born 1 October 1950) is a British scientist, writer, broadcaster, and member of the House of Lords.
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Suzanne Moore
Suzanne Lynn Moore (born 17 July 1958 in Ipswich, Suffolk) is an English journalist.
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Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali (Punjabi, طارق علی; born 21 October 1943) is a British Pakistani writer, journalist, historian, filmmaker, political activist, and public intellectual.
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Tariq Modood
Tariq Modood, (born 1952) is a British Pakistani Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy at the University of Bristol (1997–). Modood is the founding director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship and one of the leading authorities on ethnic minorities in Britain.
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Tariq Ramadan
Tariq Ramadan (طارق رمضان; born 26 August 1962) is a Swiss Muslim academic, philosopher, and writer.
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Thatcherism
Thatcherism describes the conviction, economic, social and political style of the British Conservative Party politician Margaret Thatcher, who was leader of her party from 1975 to 1990.
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The Spirit Level (book)
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do BetterUK Hardback edition: The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better.
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The Two Cultures
The Two Cultures is the first part of an influential 1959 Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow.
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Tim Harford
Tim Harford (born 27 September 1973) is an English economist and journalist who lives in Oxford.
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Tobacco Factory
The Tobacco Factory is the last remaining part of the old W. D. & H. O. Wills tobacco factory site on Raleigh Road, Southville, Bristol.
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Tony Benn
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (3 April 1925 – 14 March 2014), originally known as Anthony Wedgwood Benn, but later as Tony Benn, was a British politician, writer, and diarist.
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Tristram Hunt
Tristram Julian William Hunt is a British historian, broadcast journalist and former Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central from 2010 to 2017.
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Tristram Stuart
Tristram James Avondale Stuart (born 1977 in London) is an English author and campaigner.
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Vic Reeves
James Roderick Moir (born 24 January 1959), better known by the stage name Vic Reeves, is an English comedian, artist, actor and television presenter, best known for his double act with Bob Mortimer (see Vic and Bob).
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Victoria Rooms, Bristol
The Victoria Rooms, also known as the Vic Rooms, houses the University of Bristol's music department in Clifton, Bristol, England, on a prominent site at the junction of Queens Road and Whiteladies Road.
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Vince Cable
Sir John Vincent Cable (born 9 May 1943) is a British politician serving as Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Member of Parliament for Twickenham since 2017.
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Virginia Ironside
Virginia Ironside (born 1945) is a British journalist, agony aunt and author.
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Wallace and Gromit
Wallace and Gromit is a British clay animation comedy series created by Nick Park of Aardman Animations.
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Watershed (Bristol)
Watershed opened in June 1982 as the United Kingdom's first dedicated media centre.
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Wayne Hemingway
Wayne Andrew Hemingway, MBE (born 19 January 1961) is an English designer and co-founder of Red or Dead.
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We The Curious
We The Curious (previously @Bristol) is a science centre and charity in Bristol, England.
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Wendy M. Grossman
Wendy M. Grossman (born January 26, 1954 in New York City) is a journalist, blogger, and folksinger.
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Will Hutton
William Nicolas Hutton (born 21 May 1950) is a British political economist, academic administrator, and journalist.
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Will Self
William Woodard Self (born 26 September 1961) is an English novelist, journalist, political commentator and television personality.
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William Dalrymple (historian)
William Dalrymple FRSL, FRGS, FRAS, FRSE (born William Hamilton-Dalrymple on 20 March 1965) is a Scottish historian and writer, art historian and curator, as well as a prominent broadcaster and critic.
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William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill
William Arthur Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill, PC (born 15 August 1946) is a British Conservative politician who served in the Cabinet from 1990 until 1997 and is a life member of the Tory Reform Group.
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Wills Memorial Building
The Wills Memorial Building (also known as the Wills Memorial Tower or simply the Wills Tower) is a Neo Gothic building designed by Sir George Oatley and built as a memorial to Henry Overton Wills III http://www.about-bristol.co.uk/lnd-03.asp by his sons George and Henry Wills.
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Wole Soyinka
Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka (Yoruba: Akinwándé Oluwo̩lé Babátúndé S̩óyinká,; born 13 July 1934), known as Wole Soyinka, is a Nigerian playwright, poet and essayist.
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Zac Goldsmith
Frank Zacharias Robin Goldsmith (born 20 January 1975) is a British politician and journalist serving as the Member of Parliament for Richmond Park since 2017, after previously holding the seat between 2010 and 2016.
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Ziauddin Sardar
Ziauddin Sardar (ضیاء الدین سردار; born 31 October 1951) is a London-based scholar, award-winning writer, cultural critic and public intellectual who specialises in Muslim thought, the future of Islam, futures studies and science and cultural relations.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Festival_of_Ideas
