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Andrew Adonis
Joan Bakewell
Ed Balls
Melissa Benn
Simon Blackburn
Alain de Botton
Melvyn Bragg
John Burnside
A S Byatt
Lesley Chamberlain
Sarah Churchwell
Amanda Craig
Anita Desai
Margaret Drabble
John Gray
Simon Heffer
Michael Holroyd
Paul Johnson
Benjamin Kunkel
Hari Kunzru
John Lanchester
Toby Litt
David Marquand
Anne McElvoy
Ed Miliband
A D Miller
Chris Mullin
Julie Myerson
Martha Nussbaum
Alex Preston
Leo Robson
Jane Shilling
Robert Skidelsky
Jon Snow
Daniel Swift
Craig Raine
Geoffrey Robertson
Rowan Williams