Editors

Dr Helen Szamuely

Helen is Head of Research at the Bruges Group, co-author of EU Referendum blog and author of Conservative History blog as well as editor of the Conservative History Journal. She is the co-author with Bill Jamieson of A 'Coming Home' or Poisoned Chalice? and with Dennis O'Keeffe of Samizdat, both published by the Centre for Research for Post-Communist Economies (CRCE).

She has also written briefing papers on enlargement and other matters to do with Eastern Europe for the CRCE and has appeared on the media, including internet media, to speak on subjects to do with the European Union and post-Communist affairs.

At times, she has worked and still works as a researcher and brief writer in the House of Lords.

Dr Richard North

Formerly a local authority official and then private consultant and journalist, Richard spent four years in the European Parliament as research director for a political group and now works as a political researcher for Westminster MPs.

With an original background in food safety, he became a relentless opponent of excessive bureaucracy and has fought some notable campaigns on agricultural and farming issues, working with trade groups in those sectors. That involvement brought him into mainstream politics and he has since widened his scope. He now campaigns on a much wider front, not least for better armour and equipment for our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Richard works closely with Christopher Booker, the well-known Sunday Telegraph journalist, and has co-authored three books on European issues with him: The Mad Officials, The Castle of Lies and The Great Deception. He has also published his own book on The Death of British Agriculture and is shortly, again with Christopher Booker, to publish a new work, Scared to Death – an anatomy of the scare phenomenon.