Phil Tinline Keynote Speaker

Phil Tinline is a journalist and author, and a speaker on government and politics.

His book The Death of Consensus: 100 Years of British Political Nightmares was chosen as the Times Politics Book of the Year 2022. Matthew Taylor, former Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Arts, described it as “one of the best books on politics I’ve ever read.”

In the course of a twenty-year career with BBC Radio 4, Phil presented many acclaimed documentaries about how political history and ideas shape the present. He has written for publications including The Times, The Daily Telegraph, Engelsberg Ideas, Economics Observatory, Unherd, Prospect and The New Statesman.

Much of his recent work has focused on the unfolding crisis in British politics, and how a range of issues can be interpreted as signals of a long-term political transition process, in the wake of the 2008 Crash. He also writes about the fear of authoritarianism, and about the political role of conspiracy theory. His Radio 4 series, Conspiracies – The Secret Knowledge, returned for a second run in summer 2023.

 He contributes regularly to Times Radio, on topics from political protest to the timing of general elections. He has been interviewed about his analysis of Britain’s current political troubles by ITV, German news channel ZDF, and a wide range of podcasts.

He is currently writing a book about the roots of America’s current political turmoil, for publication in the UK by Head of Zeus, and in the US by Scribner, in spring 2025.