Ella Whelan is the co-convenor of the Battle of Ideas festival. She is a journalist and author of What Women Want: Fun, Freedom and an End to Feminism. She is also a director of Academy of Ideas Ltd.
Ella is a frequent commentator on TV and radio and a regular columnist for spiked and The Critic. She also writes for the Sun, the Spectator, The Sunday Times, The Economist, The Telegraph, Conscience and others. Her interviews feature in the spiked review and BBC Radio 4.