Allison Pearson
award-winning Daily Telegraph columnist; bestselling novelist; free speech campaigner

Allison Pearson is an award-winning journalist and columnist at the Daily Telegraph. She is a free speech campaigner and was visited by Essex Police on Remembrance Sunday over a tweet she had deleted a year earlier. Allison was recently victorious in her legal case against the Essex Police and Crime Commissioner.

Allison’s debut novel, I Don’t Know How She Does It, became an international bestseller which was translated into 32 languages. It was also made into a film starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Pierce Brosnan.

Allison is co-presenter with fellow Telegraph columnist Liam Halligan of the renowned Planet Normal podcast featuring ‘news and views from beyond the bubble’.

Follow Allison on X: @AllisonPearson

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