Alice Thomson is an award-winning columnist and interviewer and associate editor of The Times. A journalist for nearly 30 years, she has covered revolutions in Eastern Europe, the break-up of Yugoslavia, genocide in Rwanda, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, numerous British elections and Brexit. She has contributed to Vogue, The Spectator and the Financial Times and appears regularly on The Today Programme, Newsnight, Question Time and Any Questions. Thomson’s best-selling book, The Singing Line, tells the story of an ancestor of hers who built the telegraph line across Australia in the 19th century and named Alice Springs after his wife.