UnHerd
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UnHerd is a website established in 2017 by Tim Montgomerie with the financial backing of Brexit supporter Paul Marshall.
Montgomerie says it will 'challenge out-of-date, incorrect and even dangerous thinking on economics, politics, technology, religion and the media'.
People
- Tim Montgomerie, founder editor
- Chris Bullivant, COO and columnist; ex-director of UK2020, the right-wing think tank set up by Owen Paterson; and previously Centre for Social Justice.
Columnists and guest writers
These include in 2017:
- Henry Olsen, author for National Review magazine, which describes Olsen as 'an elections analyst and political essayist who studies conservative politics in the US and abroad'. Olsen 'looks at election returns and poll data to understand why people vote the way they do and how conservative politicians and thinkers can best advance their ideas in the climate they face.' Olsen is also a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, ex-vice president of the American Enterprise Institute, ex-vice president at the Manhattan Institute, and ex-president of the Commonwealth Foundation[1]
- Reihan Salam, executive editor of National Review, a fellow at the National Review Institute, and a columnist at Slate
- Douglas Murray, Associate Director at The Henry Jackson Society, founded the Centre for Social Cohesion.
- Peter Franklin, ex-Conservative policy adviser to among others Oliver Letwin and Greg Clark
- Charlotte Pickles, ex-Reform think tank and previously Accenture
- Liam Halligan, writer for Sunday Telegraph; on Advisory Board of the Social Market Foundation; previously with Prosperity Capital Management, the world's largest Russia/CIS-focused asset manager.[2]
- Michael Burleigh
- Harriet Maltby, ex-Head of Policy for the Legatum Institute’s global Prosperity Index
- Jonathan Aitken
- Katie Harrison, leads the Faith Research Centre at ComRes
- Lionel Shriver, writer
- Nigel Cameron, founder of Washington think tank The Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies
- David Laws, ex-Lib Dem Minister
- Ian Birrell, advisory board member of Bright Blue
- James Kirkup, director of Social Market Foundation; ex-Telegraph
- Graeme Archer, ex-Telegraph writer
- Andy McSmith, journalist
- Juliet Samuel, Telegraph columnist
- Colin Bloom, ex-International Director of the UK's Conservative Party. Sept 2017 launched the Wilberforce Alliance, a US/UK Christian organisation that says it will 'undertake political research and train future leaders'.
- Allan Mallinson, author and retired British Army officer
Funding
At least some of the money used to establish UnHerd came from hedge fund manager Paul Marshall.<ref>
Contact
- Website: https://unherd.com
