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Montgomerie says it will 'challenge out-of-date, incorrect and even dangerous thinking on economics, politics, technology, religion and the media'.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:
- Douglas Murray
- Peter Franklin
- Charlotte Pickles, ex-Reform think tank and previously Accenture
- Allan Mallinson
- Liam Halligan
- Henry Olsen
- 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
- Reihan Salam, executive editor of National Review, a fellow at the National Review Institute, and a columnist at Slate
- 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
- Andy McSmith
- 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'.
Funding
At least some of the money used to establish UnHerd came from hedge fund manager Paul Marshall.<ref>
Contact
- Website: https://unherd.com