Oliver Kamm

Oliver Kamm is a chief columnist for the London Times . As a self-confessed reformed pedant he is the newspaper's unofficial expert on language and style, a subject he tackles in his long-running immensely popular weekly column "The Pedant." He writes two weekly columns: "The Pedant," on language; and a "Notebook" on economics, international affairs, and culture. He is a regular columnist for The Jewish Chronicle , and his writings have also appeared in The Guardian , The New York Times , The...See more

Oliver Kamm is a chief columnist for the London Times . As a self-confessed reformed pedant he is the newspaper's unofficial expert on language and style, a subject he tackles in his long-running immensely popular weekly column "The Pedant." He writes two weekly columns: "The Pedant," on language; and a "Notebook" on economics, international affairs, and culture. He is a regular columnist for The Jewish Chronicle , and his writings have also appeared in The Guardian , The New York Times , The New Republic , Foreign Policy , the New Statesman , and many other publications. He lives in England. See less