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Charlie Laderman is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge and was previously Smith Richardson Fellow in International Security Studies at Yale University.

Walter Laqueur

Walter Laqueur is the author of Terrorism (first published in 1977) and Guerrilla (1976), which are among the leading texts in this field and have been translated into many languages. Read more

Bryan Lask

Bryan Lask is Emeritus Professor at the University of London and Academic Director of Ellern Mede Centre for Eating Disorders in North London. Read more

Sheila Lawlor

Sheila Lawlor is director of the think-tank Politeia. Her next book will be on the politics of post-war social policy.

Nigel Lawson

Nigel Lawson is a Conservative politician and former Chancellor of the Exchequer. His latest book is An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming. An updated edition of his memoirs, Memoirs of a Tory Radical, is published by Biteback. He is on the Advisory Board of Standpoint.

Oliver Letwin and Nigel Lawson

Former Tory chancellor Nigel Lawson challenges David Cameron’s Conservatives and their global warming policies, whilst the party’s policy chief Oliver Letwin defends them.

Dominic Lawson

Dominic Lawson is a columnist for the Sunday Times and the Independent. He is also the author of The Inner Game (Hardinge Simpole Publishing). Read more

Ruth Lea

Ruth Lea is economic adviser to the Arbuthnot Banking Group and a Vice-President of the National Churches Trust. Read more

Rodney Leach

Rodney Leach is the Director of Jardine Matheson Group and chairman of Open Europe. He is the author of Europe, A Concise Encyclopedia, and was made a life peer in 2006.

Adam LeBor

Adam LeBor is a British author and journalist based in Budapest. He reports from Central Europe for The Times and is the author of City of Oranges.

Norman Lebrecht

Norman Lebrecht is an author and broadcaster. His latest book is Why Mahler? (Faber).

Catesby Leigh

Catesby Leigh writes about art and architecture and his commentary has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and other publications. He is based Washington. Read more

Oliver Letwin

Oliver Letwin MP, a Minister in the Cabinet Office, chairs the Conservative Research Department and the party's Policy Review. Read more

Angela Levin

Angela Levin is a journalist and broadcaster who writes chiefly for the Mail on Sunday. She is the author of Loving Peter, a memoir of Peter Cook.

Davis Lewin

Davis Lewin is Political Director at The Henry Jackson Society.

Francesca Lewis

Francesca Lewis is a graduate of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and the London School of Economics. Read more

Sophie Lewis

Sophie Lewis manages the Europe office of Dalkey Archive Press in London. Her translation of Stendhal's De l'Amour is published by Hesperus.

Oliver Lewis

Oliver Lewis has worked for the Conservative politicians Michael Gove and Andrew Lansley. He was involved with the launch of the first free schools. Read more

Julian Lewis

Julian Lewis is the Conservative MP for New Forest East and a former Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office. Read more

Conrad Leyser

Conrad Leyser is Fellow and Tutor in History at Worcester College, Oxford. He is the author of Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great (OUP).

Ottoline Leyser

Ottoline Leyser is Professor of Plant Developmental Genetics at the University of York.

Mark Littlewood

Mark Littlewood is Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs and former head of media for the Liberal Democrats. Read more

Joseph Loconte

Joseph Loconte is an associate professor of history at King's College, New York, and the author of The Searchers: A Quest for Faith in the Valley of Doubt (Thomas Nelson).

Robert Low

Robert Low is Consultant Editor at Standpoint.

Anthony Loyd

Anthony Loyd has been a special correspondent for The Times for 15 years. He has been a frequent visitor to Afghanistan since 1996.

Edward Lucas

Edward Lucas is the author of The New Cold War: how the Kremlin threatens both Russia and the West. He is the Central and Eastern Europe correspondent of The Economist, and has reported on the region for more than 20 years.

Edward Lucas and Mary Dejevsky

Edward Lucas and Mary Dejevsky, both leading commentators on Russia and eastern Europe, discuss the Georgian crisis and its implications for the West. Read more

Margot Lurie

Margot Lurie is associate editor of Jewish Ideas Daily. Her work has appeared in the New Criterion, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Commentary and the Jewish Review of Books.