Toby Young is an associate editor of the Spectator and a blogger for the Telegraph. He is the author of two books, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (2001) and The Sound of No Hands Clapping (2006), and has performed in the West End in a stage adaptation of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. He co-produced the film version of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) and more recently co-produced and co-wrote a dramadoc for More4 called When Boris Met Dave (2009).

His teaching experience includes working as a teaching fellow at Harvard and a teaching assistant at Cambridge. He is the co-founder of the West London Free School which became the first free school to sign a Funding Agreement earlier this year.