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	Managing Editor Merrie Cave A former teacher and College Lecturer, Merrie Cave has been the Managing Editor since 1989. She has been a lay magistrate for twenty three years and active in grass roots politics, standing for the local council in the Conservative interest on several occasions.
	Consulting Editor Roger Scruton Roger Scruton, who is considered to be one of the most outstanding intellects of his generation, is now Professor of Philosophy at Buckingham University. A Renaissance man, his prolific output in journalism and over twenty academic books ranges over architecture, music, the philosophy of sex, hunting, as well as political comment. He is a frequent broadcaster on radio and television and columnist in newspapers in the UK and America. His books include Modern Philosophy, The Meaning of Conservatism, The Aesthetics of Music, the most recent being England: an Elegy and The West and the Rest, a study of the relationship of Islam to the West. Read an article by Roger Scruton.
	Consulting Editor Myles Harris Myles Harris is a doctor and a journalist. He spent the first half of his medical career working in Australian outback, in the Papua New Guinea rain forest, on the Canadian prairie, in a hospital in the Kalahari desert and then in the Caribbean. He worked for the Red Cross in 1984 during the Ethiopian famine, returning to Britain to publish Breakfast in Hell describing the famine, the failure of international aid, and how the west sees catastrophes in the third world both as TV entertainments and a cause for self-flagellation. He has written for The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph, The London Evening Standard and The Daily Mail. In 1998 he published a monograph Come back Miss Nightingale (SAU) which laid the failure of modern nursing at the door of feminism. He has published works on the fraudulent claims of counselling, and in 2003 Tomorrow is Another Country (Civitas), an account of uncontrolled mass immigration to Britain. He lives in London.
	Consulting Editor Mark Baillie Mark Baillie has lived or worked in more than 14 countries in the fields of security, finance, business and politics as a soldier, foreign correspondent, diplomat and business consultant. His main areas of interest are terrorism and foreign affairs.
	Consulting Editor Christie Davies Christie Davies was for eighteen years Professor of Sociology at a British University, has been a visiting scholar in India and the United States, taught in Australia and has lectured and given papers by invitation in many other countries including Brazil, Bulgaria Canada, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Norway, Poland and Japan. He is the author of many books and academic articles on the empirical study of morality and on his other main research area the comparative study of humour. His most recent books are The Mirth of Nations 2002 and The Strange Death of Moral Britain 2006 and he is currently engaged on a new book Jokes and Targets. He has also lectured and written extensively on politics and political economy and is a frequent reviewer of art exhibitions in both Britain and the United States. He is a frequent broadcaster and often writes for magazines, the press and websites. In addition to being a world expert on the academic study of jokes, he is the author of many satirical articles and sketches and of a volume of humorous magical science fiction stories Dewi the Dragon 2006.
	Consulting Editor Charles Cecil Charles Cecil has worked in international banking and other private equity-related financial services since 1973. He is a board member and trustee of a number of private companies and trusts. He has been a frequent speaker at international private equity conferences and symposia and occasional contributor of articles to specialised publications. He is a trustee of the Foundation for Social and Economic Thinking and a council member of the RS Surtees Society.
	Literary Editor Ian Crowther Ian Crowther is a freelance Creative Consultant and copywriter having been a copywriter with various London Advertising agencies as well as being Creative DIrector and co-owner of Lonsdale Advertising of London which he sold in 1988. He is the Literary Editor for The Salisbury Review and is an essayist and book reviewer for this and other publications. He is the author of Chesterton (published 1991); contributor to Permanent Things, Conservative Thoughts and Conservative Thinkers; occasional TV and radio broadcaster (Personal View, BBC World Service, BBC 1 Question Time, Channel 4 Right Talk, and others); and one-time lecturer on Eric Voegelin's political philosophy for the Jan Hus Institute in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Ian lives in Child Okeford in Dorset and is a Governor of St Antony's Leweston School, Sherborne , Dorset.