• Alex Singleton is a Telegraph-writing liberal. Based on the newspaper's comment desk, he is part of The Daily Telegraph's leader-writing team. He is also Letters Editor of The Sunday Telegraph and an assistant editor of the daily paper's letters page.

    He was once described as "the high priest of globalisation" by Lord Malloch Brown (former Deputy General Secretary of the UN) and, more recently, as a "girly Cameroon" by James Delingpole.

    His views on trade justice have been discussed in a Rowan Williams sermon, while his research on microfinance was launched by David Cameron. He has previously written comment and obituaries for The Guardian and reviews and analysis for a variety of newsstand magazines. He is part of the daily PoliticsHome survey of 100 leading opinion formers.

    Alex can sometimes be heared promoting liberal views on the television and radio, and has appeared on programmes such as Newsnight, the Today programme and The Moral Maze.

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Speeches

Alex is a popular speaker noted for his ability to communicate complicated subjects in a simple way - and grip an audience. He has spoken to audiences of 30-700, to House of Commons & Lords select committees, to conferences from Berlin to Las Vegas, and at debating societies at universities (including the Oxford Union, Cambridge Union and Trinity College Dublin)

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