Our Writers

Andrew Hedges

5 articles

Andrew Hedges was a founding member of The Democratic Bloc but has since left Your Party and joined the Greens. He also sat on Momentum’s national coordinating group from 2022-2024 but left Labour in 2025.

Andy Walker

16 articles

Andy Walker is the founder and editorial director of Left Field. He is a journalist and the secretary of the Newcastle branch of the National Union of Journalists.

Andy Walsh

1 article

Andy Walsh is chair of trustees at Greater Manchester Law Centre. A former general manager and board member at FC United of Manchester and head of community ownership and the national game at the Football Supporters' Association, Andy has over 40 years experience in football and has been an adviser to a number of football clubs and supporters' groups.

Ben Sellers

1 article

Ben Sellers formerly worked for Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour MP Laura Pidcock and is now a fellow of the Democracy Collaborative. This article is written in a personal capacity.

Brian Green

4 articles

Brian Green is a socialist who helped found the modern trade union movement in South Africa. He arrived in the UK in 1977, was politically active in the left and anti-fascist movement in the 1980s and has been an anti-capitalist campaigner ever since.

Bryn Griffiths

1 article

Bryn Griffiths is an activist in Colchester and the host of the Labour Left Podcast.

Clive Hedges

4 articles

Clive Hedges is an academic and recovering ex-member of various political organisations who is currently unlucky enough to live in the constituency of Luke Akehurst MP.

Fiona Ranson

1 article

Fiona Ranson is an anti-hate activist, educator and researcher from Durham, whose research interests lie in education, children’s social care, multilingualism and the care journey of young people seeking asylum.

Gemma Thornton

1 article

Gemma Thornton is co-founder of Root & Branch and an activist in West Yorkshire.

Granville Williams

1 article

Granvile Williams edits MediaNorth which he started after the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom ceased activity in 2018. He has written and edited several books on media topics, most recently It's The Media, Stupid! The Media, the 2019 Election and the Aftermath (2020).

Harry Cross

4 articles

Dr Harry Cross is a researcher and consultant specialising in security and economic policy in the Middle East and East Africa. His recent book, Undoing a Revolution: Sudan and the Politics of Debt, examines the history of sovereign debt in Sudan in the context of regional politics.

Jamie Driscoll

1 article

Jamie Driscoll is a Green Party councillor in Newcastle and former North of Tyne Metro Mayor.  

Olly Mooney

1 article

Olly Mooney is a digital animal activist and the founder of Save the Dogs UK.

Paul Heron

1 article

Paul Heron is a solicitor and founder of the Public Interest Law Centre and is part of the centre’s legal team at the undercover policing inquiry.He also sits on the executive committee of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers.

Rob Dyer

1 article

Rob Dyer is an ecological socialist and a retired engineer, living in Durban, South Africa.

Siobhán Ovey

1 article

Siobhán Ovey is an activist whose work focuses on intersectional feminism, ending violence against women and girls, anti-racism, and youth engagement. She is also a co-founder of North Devon and Torridge Socialists.

Will McMahon

3 articles

Will McMahon is a writer for Left Field.