Angus is Head of External Relations at the Institute of Ideas, a Battle of Ideas committee member, has written for spiked, and reviewed for Culture Wars. He is is particularly interested in new forms of political language, especially when they advance further erosions of our liberties and display an increasing contempt for our ability to live without interference or regulation. Environmentalism and public health campaigns to protect us from ourselves are contemporary cases in point. Angus believes that we should be free to say what we want and are quite capable of taking responsibility for what we do: words and deeds can still change the world. He wants a politics for adults: not patronising lectures and bans.

Angus has a degree in Classics from Oxford, in Linguistics from the University of London and an M. Phil. in Artificial Intelligence from Dundee University. He has always been interested in language, literature and questions of reading and meaning. His professional background is in IT consultancy and software process improvement. His immodest ambition is to be widely-read and well-travelled.