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Christopher Rufo is an American conservative activist and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. He is an opponent of critical race theory and has worked to bring about its regulation in the school system. In January 2023 he was appointed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to the board of trustees of New College of Florida. Rufo has also worked alongside the Governor to counte...

Scott Adams is an American author and cartoonist. He is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, and the author of several nonfiction works of business, commentary, and satire. In 2023, Dilbert was dropped by its distributor and numerous newspapers after Adams published a controversial video about race relations. He has just released a new book, ‘Reframe Your Brain: The User Interface for Happiness...

Andrew Bogut is an Australian former professional basketball player. Born into a family of immigrants who had fled Croatia to escape socialism, he worked his way up to the National Basketball Association (NBA). The 7-foot center was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks with the first overall pick in the 2005 NBA draft. He earned All-NBA Third Team honors with the Bucks in 2010. He was traded to the Gol...

Her Honour Wendy Joseph KC was a judge at the Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, which deals with only the most serious crimes in the nation. Having recently retired, Joseph has written a book about her experiences, focussing on six particular murder and manslaughter cases. The book, ‘Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey’, was an instant best...

Tim Urban is a blogger who writes about a wide range of topics, from science and technology to psychology and philosophy. He is known for creating minimalist stick-figure illustrations to help explain complex concepts in a simple way. His musings are collected on his website, ‘Wait But Why’, and featured in his newly-released book, ‘What's Our Problem? A Self-Help Book for Societies’ - available h...

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Aaron Bastani is a British journalist and writer. He co-founded the left-wing media organisation Novara Media in 2011, and has hosted and co-hosted many of its podcasts and videos. He has written for The Guardian, London Review of Books, UnHerd and Vice, and is the author of Fully Automated Luxury Communism (2019) the title for which is a term coined by Bastani which refers to a post-capitalist so...

Miriam Grossman MD is a psychiatrist and specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry. Her practice currently focuses on gender-distressed young people and their parents. Dr Grossman features in the Daily Wire’s ‘What Is A Woman?’ documentary. She is the author of five books including ‘You’re Teaching My Child WHAT?’ - a critique of modern American sex education - and, most recently, ‘Lost in Tra...

Hannah Barnes is an award-winning journalist based in London. She is Investigations Producer at the BBC's flagship news and current affairs programme, Newsnight. Having led Newsnight’s investigative coverage of the controversial clinic, Barnes went on to write ‘Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children’ - available here: https://www.amazon.co.uk...

Geoff Norcott is an English comedian, writer and political commentator. He has appeared on Mock the Week, Live at the Apollo and Question Time, and has written for The Daily Telegraph, The Independent and Spiked.  He is the author of ‘The British Bloke, Decoded: From Banter to Man-Flu. Everything finally explained’ available here: amzn.to/3FX7xdS See Geoff on tour: https://www.livenation.co.uk/art...

Rav Arora is a 22-year-old journalist and essayist based in Vancouver, Canada. Rav has recently joined with Dr Jay Bhattacharya to produce a regular Substack entitled 'The Illusion of Consensus' which aims to dismantle illusory consensus on scientific issues pertaining to Covid, Big Pharma, and gender-affirming care: https://www.illusionconsensus.com/. He also occasionally writes personal reflecti...

Kenan Malik is an Indian-born British writer, lecturer and broadcaster, trained in neurobiology and the history of science. As an academic author, his focus is on the philosophy of biology, and contemporary theories of multiculturalism, pluralism, and race. He is the author of many books, the latest of which is ‘Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics’-...

Mark Steel is an English author, broadcaster, stand-up comedian and newspaper columnist. He is a regular on British TV and radio, appearing on such shows as Mock the Week, Have I Got New for You and QI. He has also written for The Guardian, The Independent and Daily Mirror. He presents BBC Radio programmes The Mark Steel Lectures, The Mark Steel Solution, Mark Steel's in Town and the podcast What...

Brendan O'Neill is a British political commentator and author. He was the editor of Spiked from 2007 to September 2021, and is currently its chief political writer. Once a Trotskyist, O'Neill was formerly a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party and wrote for the party's journal Living Marxism. O'Neill currently defines himself as a Marxist libertarian. Brendan's book: https://www.amazon.co.u...

Nicholas de Santo is an Italian/Iranian stand-up comedian based in the UK. His material is unapologetically right wing, causing him to be regarded as controversial by many in the British comedy industry. However, the crowds seem to like him! Decide for yourself what you think... https://www.youtube.com/angloitaliancomedy SPONSORED BY: EasyDNS - domain name registrar provider and web host. Use spec...

Marc Sidwell is Director of Research at The Henry Jackson Society. He has worked as a senior editor for the Telegraph and City A.M. and as publisher for the New Statesman. He is a Senior Fellow at the New Culture Forum for which he wrote and presented THE WEST, a landmark six-part documentary series celebrating the history, achievements and genius of Western Civilisation. Watch THE  WEST: https://...

Curtis Yarvin, also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug, is an American blogger. He is known, along with philosopher Nick Land, for founding the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic philosophical movement known as the Dark Enlightenment or neoreactionary movement (NRx). He argues that American democracy is a failed experiment which should be replaced by an accountable monarchy, similar to the go...

Sharron Davies MBE is a former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in three Olympic Games. In 1980 she famously lost out on a gold medal, placing second to a doped East German competitor. She has recently released a book, ‘Unfair Play: The Battle For Women's Sport’, partly as a response to the impact of trans identifying males competing in women’s sports. Available here: https://www....

Sophie Spital is Triggernometry's video editor and the first employee to have joined the Trig team all the way back in 2020. When she's not behind a computer screen making us look good, she speaks and writes about issues including gender dysphoria, autism and ideology - topics with which she has had more than her fair share of first hand experience! Sophie's Twitter: https://twitter.com/SophieSpit...

Simon Evans is an English comedian, writer and broadcaster. He has been an established figure in British comedy for several decades having made many TV appearances and six series of BBC Radio 4’s Simon Evans Goes to Market. He is a columnist for several publications including Spiked and the presenter of Headliners on GB News. Check out Simon's website: https://thesimonevans.com/ SPONSORED BY: AG1....

Dr Brian Keating is an American cosmologist who holds the position of Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of physics at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences in the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. He is a public speaker, inventor, and an expert in the study of the universe’s oldest light, the cosmic microwave background (CMB), using it to learn about the o...

Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist and author. His 1976 book The Selfish Gene popularised the gene-centred view of evolution, as well as coining the term meme. Dawkins is a vocal atheist and is often referred to as one of the four horsemen of the New Atheism movement which began to grain traction in the mid-2000s, catalysed in large part by Dawkin's 2006 book, The God Delusion. SP...

Dr Bjørn Lomborg is a researcher, writer and the founder of the  think tank, Copenhagen Consensus. He has collaborated with hundreds of the world’s top economists and seven Nobel Laureates to find and promote the most effective solutions to the world’s greatest challenges, from disease and hunger to climate and education. His latest book, ‘Best Things First’ posits 12 of these solutions and detail...

Eric Weinstein is an American physicist and podcaster. He attained his PhD in mathematical physics from Harvard and went on to be the joint managing director for Thiel Capital from 2013 until 2022. He is a public thinker, commentating regularly on the interaction between math, markets, music, science, technology, rationality, mysticism, creativity, learning and culture. He hosts the podcast ‘The P...

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