Columnists
The combined talents of over 821 years of experience pooled together in one newspaper!The Evening Standard's team of journalists are widely regarded as the best editorial team within the newspaper marketplace.
Our exciting team of writers deliver every shade of opinion on all the subjects that matter to all those living and working in London.
Evening Standard Wins Top Press Awards
Andrew Gilligan was named Journalist of the Year, Jeremy Selwyn was named Photographer of the Year and Paul Dacre was awarded for his Outstanding Contribution to Journalism at the British Press Awards.
Jeremy Selwyn was named Photographer of the Year for an unprecedented third time. The judges said his portfolio illustrated the best of newspaper photography. He was praised for the depth and quality of his work, which included the defining image of a distraught Kate McCann the day after her daughter Madeleine went missing, and scenes of London life.
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Paul Dacre, Editor in Chief of Associated Newspapers won the Press Gazette Special Award for his Oustanding Contribution to Journalism
Below are just a few selected biographies.
Fay Maschler
Brian Sewell
Brian Sewell has been the art critic of the Evening Standardsince 1984, where he has won many press awards, including Critic of the Year 1988, Arts Journalist of the Year 1994, Hawthornden Prize for Art Criticism 1995 and the Foreign Press Award (Arts) 2000. He has become a household media figure through his appearances on television and is noted for his acerbic reviews of the Turner Prize and contemporary art. Sewell previously worked at Christie’s, specialising in Old Master paintings and drawings, after graduating from the Courtauld Institute in 1957. In his criticisms of the Tate Gallery’s art, he coined the phrase, the "Serota Tendency", after its director Nicholas Serota. He is also patron of the British charity NORM-UK and a museums adviser in South Africa, Germany and the US.Will Self
with counter-culture figures, restaurant reviews and literary criticism. Self has made several appearances on British television, notably as a contestant on Have I Got News for You,and as a regular on Shooting Stars and Grumpy Old Men.
Anthony Hilton
Norman Lebrecht
Andrew Gilligan
Andrew Gilligan writes for the Evening Standard on defence and diplomatic affairs and on other issues, including the paper's campaign to preserve the Routemaster London bus. Public transport has long been one of Gilligan's interests and he is a passionate defender of cycling in the capital.Gilligan is best known for his controversial 2003 report alleging major flaws in a government account of Iraq and weapons of mass destruction while working for BBC Radio 4's The Today Programme as its defence correspondent. Educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, Gilligan began at the Independent in 1994, later moving on to the Sunday Telegraph where he became a specialist reporter on defence. In 1999 he was recruited by the Today programme , before becoming Defence and Diplomatic Editor of The Spectator.
Anne McElvoy
Anne McElvoy is Executive Editor of the Evening Standard where she currently writes the main weekly political column on domestic and international issues, setting the agenda for the following day’s national newspapers. She is a regular broadcaster, appearing on Newsnight and Question Time among other programmes. McElvoy has also published several books on Germany including The Saddled Cow: East Germany’s Life & Legacy in 1992 and she was co-author of the memoirs of the spymaster Markus Wolf. Previously she was a foreign correspondent for The Times, reporting on the fall of the Berlin Wall, the unification of Germany and the break up of Yugoslavia. She became Deputy Editor of The Spectator, also working as a columnist on the Daily Telegraph and later The Independent.Nirpal Dhaliwal
Nirpal Dhaliwal is a refreshing and contentious voice, writing provocative columns for the Evening Standard on topics ranging from racial issues to his personal life. He writes also for The Times, The Guardian and the Daily Mail. Dhaliwal was raised a non-practising Sikh and state-schooleducated before going on to Nottingham University to read English and American literature. In 2000, he worked as a radio journalist for the BBC, before writing his first novel Tourism, published in 2006.
David Sexton
David Sexton is the literary editor of The Evening Standard. His Friday column focuses on cultural affairs in the capital, but he is also knows for his outspoken views on Islam. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge,Sexton was after a columnist for the Times Literary Supplement and a contributor for Private Eye. Sexton was a judge of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2005 and a longstanding Radio Critic for the Sunday Telegraph from 1991-2007. His critical study, The Strange World of Thomas Harris,was published in 2001.Nick Cohen
Nick Cohen's witty and excoriating voice commands a loyal readership for his Evening Standard columns. He is further known for his views from his Channel Four documentaries and general media appearances. Cohen writes also for the Observer and New Statesman, including occasional pieces for the New Humanist. Cruel Britannia, a collection of his journalism, was published by Verso in 1999, and Pretty Straight Guys, a history of Britain under Tony Blair, was published by Faber in 2003. His provocative book What’s Left? (2007), presenting a powerful dissection of how the British liberal-left has lost its way, sparked a huge response from readers and critics.Dominic Sandbrook
Dominic Sandbrook writes a weekly column on history and current affairs for the Evening Standard. He is a British historian and writer, educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and Jesus College, Cambridge and his numerous articles and reviews have appeared in the Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph, The Observer and The Daily Telegraph. Sandbrook has appeared on BBC radio and television, most notably as a critic of John Lennon and in 2005 he published Never Had It So Good, to glowing reviews. It was nominated as a Book of the Year and in 2007 Sandbrook was named one of Waterstone's 25 Authors for the Future.Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown contributes a weekly column to the Evening Standard, covering a wide spectrum of class, gender, age, race relations and the war on terror with her cosmopolitan and pragmatic views. At first a journalist on the New Statesman magazine in the early 1980s, she has also contributed to the New York Times, Newsweed, The Guardian and The Independent.Alibhai-Brown has been a fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research(IPPR), a think tank associated with New Labour, although she has distanced herself from the Labour Party over the war in Iraq and other issues. She is a Fellow of the British-American Project. She was awarded an MBE in 2001,though she subsequently returned it at the end of 2003, inspired by Benjamin Zephaniah's decision to reject his proposed honour.
