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Giles Coren is an award-winning restaurant critic for The Times, where he also writes a regular opinion column.  He has been a columnist on the Independent on Sunday, Tatler, GQ, the Mail on Sunday, The Sunday Times and Match of the Day Magazine, and in 1997 he ghost-wrote Against the Odd, the best-selling autobiography of the vacuum cleaner tycoon, James Dyson. 

Marie Colvin, became the first unembedded western journalist from a British newspaper to visit Basra for nearly two years. She worked under the cover of an abbaya. Nevertheless, Basra is an extremely dangerous place to work unembedded. So much so that one of Marie’s interviewees took no precautions when their interview was over,

Bronwen Maddox is the Chief Foreign Commentator of The Times, and writes the World Briefing, a daily commentary on foreign news, which has appeared since November 2001.  She is the author of In Defence of America, a book arguing the case for supporting the US after the Iraq war, published in the UK and US in 2008.

Caitlin Moran was a published author at the age of 16 and went on to be one of the new wave of music journalists at Melody Maker in the mid-1990s. She has been writing for The Times since 1999, mainly on popular culture.

Camilla Cavendish has been a McKinsey management consultant, an aid worker, and CEO of a not-for-profit company. She is now a leader writer and columnist on The Times

Daniel Finkelstein is a highly original political journalist. He brings experience of high level politics together with an exciting use of ideas from outside politics and an unrivalled network of contacts.

Daniel's Comment Central has become Britain's best read political blog, with more than 850,000 hits in a month. His writing there about “punk tax cutters” helped set the agenda.

David Aaronovitch is a writer, broadcaster and commentator on international politics and the media. He writes for The Times Comment page on Tuesdays. He has previously written for The Guardian, The Observer and The Independent, winning numerous accolades, including Columnist of the Year 2003 and the 2001 Orwell prize for journalism. He has appeared on the satirical TV current affairs programme Have I Got News For You and made radio broadcasts on historical topics.

Janice Turner joined The Times in 2003 from The Guardian, and writes mainly, but not exclusively, on family matters and women's issues. Her column appears on Saturdays.

Jeremy Clarkson's career as car reviewer and BBC Top Gear presenter has made motoring into show business, but he has earned himself the description of an "equal opportunities loudmouth" for his opinionated commentary on all aspects of life, appearing weekly in The Sunday Times.

Matthew Parris joined The Times as parliamentary sketchwriter in 1988, a role he held until 2001. He had formerly worked for the Foreign Office and been a Conservative MP from 1979-86. He has published many books on travel and politics and an autobiography, Chance Witness, for which he won the 2004 Orwell Prize. His diary appears in The Times on Thursdays, and his Opinion column on Saturdays.

Deputy Business Editor, Ian King  worked as a Business analyst at Midland Bank for three years before pursuing a career in journalism. He was The Sun’s Business Editor for eight years and has been awarded Business Journalist of the Year at the London Press Club Awards and Business Journalist of the Year at the UK Press Awards. Ian is a regular guest speaker on Sky News, Radio 5, LBC, CNBC, Fox Business News has also co-presented Radio Five Live's Wake Up To Money.

He was formerly a speechwriter for the Labour Party. As well as writing for The Sunday Times, he contributes to The Spectator and Country Life and presents current affairs documentaries on television.

Minette Marrin is a journalist, broadcaster and fiction writer. She is a columnist for The Sunday Times, and has also written for The Spectator, The Asian Wall Street Journal, The Observer and The Literary Review. She regularly contributes to television and radio programmes.

Peter Riddell has been a leading political commentator and an Assistant Editor for The Times since 1991. He writes mainly, but not exclusively, about British politics and has published several books on British politics, including not one, but two, on Margaret Thatcher.

Sunday Times advice columnist Sally Brampton answers your questions on life's up and downs, concerning family, partners and friends.

Simon Barnes is the multi-award-winning chief sportswriter at The Times. He also writes a Saturday column on wildlife. His 15 books include three novels and the best-selling How To Be A Bad Birdwatcher. His latest, The Meaning of Sport, was published last autumn. He lives in Suffolk with his family and five horses.

Anatole Kaletsky is widely recognised and respected for his views and analyses on the state of the economy not only in the UK but worldwide. Anatole is one of the country's leading commentators on economics, financial markets and economic policy. Anatole has won many awards for his financial and political journalism.