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• Zeinab Badawi

  BBC World News presenter

• Robert Baer

  Ex-CIA officer and author

• Julian Baggini

  Philosopher whose books include The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten: 100 Experiments For The Armchair Philosopher

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  Founder, Chairman, and Publisher of I.B.Tauris&Co

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• Ed Balls

  MP for Morley and Outwood

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• Lynn Barber

  A Sunday Times journalist and author of "An Education", a coming-of-age memoir which was made into an oscar-nominated film last year in 2009