Stephen Bates

Stephen Bates read Modern History at New College, Oxford before working as a journalist for the BBC, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and, for 22 years, The Guardian, successively there as a political correspondent, European Affairs Editor in Brussels and religious and royal corespondent. A regular broadcaster, he has also written widely for newspapers and magazines in the UK and internationally. He is married with there adult children and lives in Kent. He has written ten books.