CLIFFORD LONGLEY is a well-known as an author, broadcaster and journalist who has specialised since 1972 in the coverage and analysis of British and international religious affairs; and since 1984 also in leader writing (editorials). Since 1972 he has written a weekly column in religion, morality and culture in the British press, for 20 years in The Times and from 1992 to September 2000 in The Daily Telegraph. His range of subjects includes Christian, Muslim and Jewish affairs, contemporary morality, secularism, politics, legal affairs, sociology and interfaith relations. He holds a number of advisory positions in religious and secular institutions, and is a frequent public speaker and lecturer. In 1996 he was consultant to the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales for the production of The Common Good and the Catholic Church's Social Teaching and in 1998 for The Catholic Church and Human Rights.

Longley has been the longest continuously appearing columnist in British national newspapers. In 1986 he was named "Specialist Writer of the Year" in the British Press Awards. He is also the only journalist to have held the byline Religious Affairs Editor at The Times and then at The Daily Telegraph. For some years he was a leader writer on The Times and the Telegraph, specialising in moral, legal, cultural and social questions and being made The Times's Assistant Editor Leaders (chief leader writer) 1990-1992. He is now independent and writes leading articles and a column, "Laylines", for The Tablet, which he edited for six months in 1996 and whose Editorial Consultant he subsequently became; and until September 2000 he wrote a weekly column for The Daily Telegraph, "Sacred and Profane", which was frequently syndicated internationally.

He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Three Faiths Forum and of the Executive Committee ot the "Remembering for the Future 2000" Holocaust Conference in Oxford and London in the summer of 2000. He has also served on the Prince of Wales's Islamic Advisory Gourp. Publications include The Times Book of Clifford Longley (HarperCollins 1990) and The Worlock Archive (Geoffrey Chapman 1999). He is an Honorary Fellow of St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill, and a Justice of the Peace at Bromley Magistrates' Court, Kent.

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