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Ella Risbridger is a writer and journalist from London. With bylines in the Financial Times, Guardian, Observer, Vogue & many others, her books span from cookery to picture books, poetry to essay collections. Her best-selling debut, Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For), won Cookbook of the Year at the Guild of Food Writers Awards, and was named a book of the year in multiple publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Sunday Times, New York Times, Daily Mail and Washington Post. She was described by the Times as “the most talented writer of a generation”, which is nice. Ella is also the creator of You Get In Love And Then…?, a best-selling newsletter with thousands of paid subscribers; an amateur painter, potter, and candlestick maker; and the part-owner of one very fat orange cat.

Steve Richards has been chief political commentator at the Independent since 2000, before which he was a BBC political correspondent and political editor for the New Statesman. He has also written for the Guardian, Observer, Evening Standard and the TLS. He currently presents Week in Westminster on BBC Radio 4 and is a regular guest on the Today programme and Newsnight. He was named political journalist of the year in 2009 by the Political Studies Association.

Richard Rayner was born in Yorkshire, and educated in North Wales and Cambridge. He is the author of ‘LA Without a Map’, and writes for ‘Granta’, ‘New York Times’ and ‘Harper’s Bazaar’. He lives in Los Angeles.

Scott Mitchell Rosenberg is a film and television producer, comic book publisher, and the chairman of Platinum Studios.

Geoff Ryman is the author of numerous highly acclaimed novels including, most recently, the bestselling ‘‘253’. He lives and works in London.

Jonathan Rutherford teaches Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Middlesex. A former community worker and journalist, he contributes regularly to the ‘Guardian’ and ‘Cosmopolitan’.

Dominic was born and raised in Buckinghamshire. He studied law at Oxford and for a masters at Cambridge where he won the Clive Parry Award for International Law. Having joined the Foreign and Commonwealth office in 2000, he later left to become Chief of Staff to the Shadow Home Secretary, the Rt. Hon David Davis MP. In 2009 Dominic was selected to represent the Conservatives in the Esher and Walton Constituency in the 2010 general election. The Assault on Liberty is his first book.