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Featuring academics and experts from The Times and The Sunday Times

Rachel Sylvester

Columnist at The Times

Featuring in Women Who Have Shaped Modern Politics

Rachel Sylvester is a political columnist at The Times. She started writing about politics in 1996 and was a lobby correspondent on The Daily Telegraph before becoming political editor of The Independent on Sunday.

Jonathan Morrison

Architecture Correspondent at The Times

Featuring in Modern Masters: The Architecture of Norman Foster

As an Architecture correspondent, Jonathan Morrison writes regular pieces for the Times on building structure and design

Matthew Parris

Columnist at The Times

Featuring in Royals: The Windsors

Matthew Parris joined The Times in 1988. He was the paper’s parliamentary sketch writer for 13 years and now writes a diary column on Wednesdays and an opinion column on Saturdays.

Oliver Moody

Science correspondent at The Times

Featuring in Mapping the Human Genome

Oliver Moody has been The Times’ science correspondent since 2015. His particular interests are in biology, medicine, artificial intelligence, and behavioural economics.

Richard Morrison

Chief Music Critic at The Times

Featuring in The Orchestra: Making Beautiful Music Together

Richard Morrison is the chief music critic of The Times and writes a wide-ranging weekly column on cultural and social matters. Previously, he also edited the paper's arts pages.

Mark Bridge

Technology correspondent at The Times

Featuring in Inventions that Changed the World Intelligent Design: The Internet of Things

Mark Bridge is technology correspondent at The Times. He started his Times career in 2006 as a personal finance reporter, and has also written for the Money and Bricks & Mortar sections.

Kat Lay

Health correspondent at The Times

Featuring in Fads and Fiction: Navigating Your Nutrition

Kat Lay is health correspondent at The Times, which she joined in 2012. She has previously worked at the News of the World and the People newspapers.

Oliver Kamm

Leader Writer and Columnist at The Times

Featuring in Tongue in Cheek: A Lighthearted Look at Language The Foundations of Critical Reasoning Origins: English Words with Foreign Roots

Oliver Kamm is a leader writer and columnist for The Times. He joined the newspaper in 2008 and now writes popular weekly columns on language and the economy.

Rachel Campbell Johnston

Chief Art Critic at The Times

Featuring in Art and Its Impact: A Retrospective

Rachel Campbell-Johnston is the chief art critic at The Times. Appointed in 2002, she has also been the paper's poetry editor, leader writer, deputy comment editor, obituary writer and deputy books editor.

Tom Whipple

Science Editor at The Times

Featuring in Mapping the Human Genome It's Complicated: Composing a Theory of Everything

Tom Whipple joined The Times in 2006. As a science correspondent, he writes science news and features across the paper.

Roger Boyes

Diplomatic Editor at The Times

Featuring in It's Complicated: China's Relationship with the World

Roger Boyes has been with The Times since 1981. He is the main editorial writer on foreign matters and writes a weekly column on foreign affairs. Boyes currently serves as the paper's Diplomatic Editor and specialises in many areas, including Chinese affairs.

Bruno Waterfield

Brussels correspondent at The Times

Featuring in It's Complicated: Britain's Uneasy Relationship with Europe

Bruno Waterfield is the Brussels correspondent for The Times. He has reported on European affairs for 15 years, first from Westminster and then from the capital of the European Union.

Daniel Finkelstein

Columnist at The Times

Featuring in Superpowers: The American Establishment Cold War: From Allies to Enemies Cold War: From Crisis to Détente Cold War: The Emergence of a New World Order

Daniel Finkelstein, appointed to the House of Lords in 2013, writes a weekly column for The Times. Previously, he was adviser to Prime Minister John Major and Conservative leader William Hague.

Michael Binyon

Contributor at The Times

Featuring in Superpowers: China Rising Superpowers: Enigmatic Russia Cold War: From Crisis to Détente

Michael Binyon has been an editorial writer, columnist and foreign correspondent for The Times since 1971. For 15 years he was based overseas, reporting from Moscow, Washington, Bonn and Brussels, before returning to London in 1991.

Nancy Durrant

Arts Commissioning Editor at The Times

Featuring in Art and Its Impact: A Retrospective

Nancy Durrant is the arts commissioning editor at The Times, focusing on visual art and theatre, as well as an art critic since joining the paper in 2003.

Neil Fisher

Deputy Arts Editor at The Times

Featuring in Modern Masters: 20th Century Composers

Neil Fisher is deputy arts editor and music critic for The Times. He joined The Times in 2004 and has written reviews and features on classical music and opera since then.

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