Matthew d'Ancona

Matthew d’Ancona is an award-winning editor and columnist. He is currently Editor‑at-Large of The New World, contributing a weekly column and culture newsletter, and co-hosting its flagship current affairs podcast. He also serves as Contributing Editor at Prospect and is a visiting research fellow at Queen Mary University of London. He was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, in 1989.

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He previously served as an editor and partner at Tortoise Media and wrote a weekly column for the Guardian. Prior to that, he was Editor of the Spectator, Deputy Editor of the Sunday Telegraph, a contributing writer at the International New York Times, and held roles at Index on Censorship and The Times. He is a past judge of the Booker Prize. His most recent book is Identity, Ignorance, Innovation: Why the old politics is useless - and what to do about it (2021).

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