10 Facts About Tim Stanley

Timothy Randolph Stanley was born on 1 April 1982 and is a British journalist, author and historian.

Active in student journalism at Cambridge and, contributing to student newspaper Varsity, Tim Stanley unsuccessfully ran for a sabbatical post on Cambridge University Students' Union.

Tim Stanley held lectureships at the University of Sussex and Royal Holloway College, London and, from 2011 to 2012, he became an Associate Member of the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford, receiving a Leverhulme Trust Grant.

Tim Stanley contributes to History Today and Literary Review, and has written pieces for The Guardian and The Spectator.

Tim Stanley is an occasional pundit on BBC News, CNBC, Sky News and Channel 4 News.

Tim Stanley has presented BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day, is a contributor on The Moral Maze and has appeared several times on the panel of BBC's Question Time.

Tim Stanley has since distanced himself from Labour, and has argued in support of the Republican Party in the United States.

At the 2017 UK general election, Tim Stanley allied himself with the Conservative Party, voting for them again in 2019.

Tim Stanley announced his voting preference in favour of the Social Democratic Party at the 2024 UK general election, preferring its emphasis on national solidarity to that of the Reform Party whose focus was on British exceptionalism.

Tim Stanley subsequently aligned himself with the Church of England's Anglo-Catholic wing, before being received into the Catholic Church, aged 23.