Jo-Anne Nadler
political commentator and writer; campaigner, Don't Divide Us

Jo-Anne Nadler is a political commentator and writer who went freelance after a decade as a producer and reporter chiefly with BBC political programmes. She had begun her broadcast career making music shows at Radio 1 but gave it up to pursue her chief interest, politics, by taking a job in communications for the Conservative Party – which in turn took her back into the BBC as a journalist.

After leaving the BBC to write, she published two books about the Conservative Party and has become a regular broadcast commentator and has appeared on shows from Radio 4’s Start the Week to Channel 5 and GB News.

Over the last decade Jo-Anne has also worked in political communications as a director of a specialist campaigns agency working on public policy. During lockdown she wrote a report on child sexual exploitation for the Centre for Social Justice and since then, as a concerned parent, has focussed on campaigning against the inappropriate politicisation of schools – both directly at her son’s school, and with the pressure group, Don’t Divide Us. Earlier this year she published a long essay for the think tank, Civitas on the way critical social justice is undermining British schools.

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