Harriet Sergeant

HARRIET SERGEANT

I have built my career on curiosity. I go where the story is, see it with my own eyes, and talk to people others overlook. I have befriended a gang in Brixton, spent a night in a squat with vegan activists, followed a porter through an NHS hospital, attended a Black Trades Union meeting in Soweto during apartheid, interviewed a Russian bodyguard who fought for a Chinese warlord in the 1920s, and dined with a Red Guard in Shanghai — to name just a few of the people and places that have shaped my work.

These experiences have culminated in four non-fiction books and several think-tank reports, which have attracted extensive coverage in print and broadcast media in the UK and abroad, and were serialised by the Daily Mail. My work has sparked wide debate and informed aspects of UK policy at the time. I have written for the Sunday Times, Financial Times, Sun, Spectator, and Standpoint, and I am a regular contributor to television and radio, appearing on Question Time, Newsnight, GB News and more.