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Sohrab Ahmari is a founder and editor of Compact: A Radical American Journal. Previously, he spent nearly a decade at News Corp., as op-ed editor of the New York Post and as a columnist and editor with the Wall Street Journal opinion pages in New York and London. In addition to those publications, his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Spectator, Chronicle of Higher Education, Times Literary Supplement, Dissent, and The American Conservative, for which he is a contributing editor. His books include The Unbroken Thread (2021) and Tyranny, Inc. (2023), both published by Penguin Random House.

Fr Toby studied law at Cambridge and had a gap year before and after Uni, something which he would thoroughly recommend, though probably not with your parents listening. After his second gap year, he worked as lawyer for an international firm for 7 years. However, something stirred in him after World Youth Day in Sydney and he began looking for something different, but wasn’t sure what it was. After thinking about joining the police or becoming a teacher, he decided to enter the Dominicans, having met a Dominican Sister while doing a part-time philosophy degree and finding himself intrigued by Dominican life and in a surprising for him of voluntarily playing less rugby so he could study more philosophy.

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In 2012 he ditched the city suit for the habit, spending a year in Cambridge, followed by 4 years studying in Oxford and then 3 years in Rome. He was ordained 3 ½ years ago, and since returning to London has worked as a hospital chaplain ministering to the dying during COVID, and is also a University Chaplain at KCL. Most recently he has been running a radio station, Radio Maria. His friends say that they always said he had a face for radio, his mother says this is not true, and he should take no notice!

Lord Maurice Glasman, a political theorist, social commentator and academic at St May’s University. He is also the director of the Common Good Foundation and just this year published ‘Blue Labour: The Politics of the Common Good’.

Delphine is a London-based cradle Catholic who experienced her true heart conversion when she hit 30. A former mainstream women’s magazine journalist, Delphine now uses her writing talents for a Christian legal advocacy organisation, as well as running her own befriending charity, CareDogs. She can be found on Twitter sharing stories of people fighting for freedom of speech, religious belief and the right to life or on Christian YouTube channel Salt speaking on the topic of holy love in the modern world. You can connect with Delphine on Instagram.