PERSON: Emma Webb

Common Sense Society

Founding Director

Emma is a writer, broadcaster and presenter on GB News. Previously, she was the founding director of the U.K. Branch of the Common Sense Society, and podcast host for the New Culture Forum. Prior to that, Emma was the deputy research director at the Free Speech Union, co-founded the heritage campaign group Save Our Statues, director of the Forum on Integration, Democracy and Extremism (FIDE) at Civitas, and research fellow at the Centre on Radicalisation and Terrorism at the Henry Jackson Society, where she specialised in Islamist social networks and organisations.

Emma has written for the Telegraph, Spectator, spiked, Unherd and The Times, among others, and has appeared on BBC Politics Live, the Big Questions, and Sunday Morning Live, Good Morning Britain, NewsNation and TalkTV.

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