Sebastian Quarryman

Sebastian Quarryman read Philosophy at Oxford, where he discovered that the most important thing about any argument is winning it. He joined Eleutheria in 2001 as a general opinion columnist, a role that suits him because it requires no particular expertise and rewards confidence absolutely. Over the course of his career Sebastian has argued for and against Brexit, for and against the monarchy, for and against foxhunting, and on one memorable occasion both for and against bicycle lanes in the same edition. He considers this not inconsistency but intellectual range. His critics, of whom there are many, describe his columns as "deliberately provocative," "occasionally brilliant," and "written by someone who genuinely enjoys the sound of his own prose." Sebastian lives in Notting Hill. He has a podcast nobody asked for. He is considering a second one.