Daniel Hind Author

Daniel Hind is an independent publisher and journalist. He was the first editorial director of the revived Bodley Head imprint at Random House in 2007. In 2024, he was awarded a doctorate for his thesis The Matter of Opinion: Popular Sovereignty and the Constitution of Social Reality. He is the author of The Threat to Reason, The Return of the Public, and The Magic Kingdom, as well as several policy papers. 

Dr Tom Mills is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Aston University, where he works on media, communication, and the sociology of elites. A former chair of the Media Reform Coalition, he is the author of The BBC: Myth of a Public Service, which examines the BBC’s relationship with the state and the impact of neoliberalism on its organisation and culture.

Dr Tom Chivers is a research associate in British media policy at Goldsmiths, University of London and co-author of Our Mutual Friend: The BBC in the Digital Age.