Mark Pack has extensive experience of conducting, commissioning and analysing political opinion polls, and his previous books include Bad News: What the Headlines Don’t Tell Us (2020) and 101 Ways To Win An Election (2021).

P. E. Caquet is an Associate at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge. His books include The Orient, the Liberal Movement, and the Eastern Crisis of 1839–41 (2016) and The Bell of Treason: The 1938 Munich Agreement in Czechoslovakia (2018).

Panikos Panayi is Professor of European History at De Montfort University and the author or editor of 25 books, including Life and Death in a German Town: Osnabrück from the Weimar Republic to World War Two and Beyond (2020), Spicing Up Britain: The Multicultural History of British Food (Reaktion, 2008) and Migrant City: A New History of London (2020).

Elza Adamowicz is Emerita Professor of French Literature and Visual Culture at Queen Mary University of London. She has published numerous studies on the European avant-garde, including Dada Bodies: Between Battlefield and Fairground (2019).

Jeremy Robbins is Emeritus Forbes Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. His books include Incomparable Realms: Spain during the Golden Age, 1500–1700 (Reaktion, 2022).

Hilary French is Professor of Design Studies at Bath Spa University. She is also a ballroom dancer and occasional competitor. She lives in London.

Irven M. Resnick is Professor and Chair of Excellence in Philosophy and Religion at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr is Professor Emeritus of Classics at Louisiana State University and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Luke White is Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture and Fine Art at Middlesex University, London, and his books include Legacies of the Drunken Master: Politics of the Body in Hong Kong Kung Fu Comedy Films (2020).

Kim Dhillon is an essayist, poet and art theorist who teaches critical theory and curating at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She lives on the unceded territory of the W̱SÁNEĆ people on Vancouver Island, Canada.