Henry Porter

Henry Porter (born 1953) is an English author and journalist. He is a writer of award-winning thrillers and was, until 2014, a regular columnist for The Observer, focusing on civil liberties and the threat to democracy. He is also an activist, chairing the Joint Media Unit of the People’s Vote campaign (until 2019) and The Convention, which stages large scale political conferences. Until 2018, he was the British editor of Vanity Fair, a position he held for 25 years. He has written ten novels, including a children’s book. The third part of a quartet of thrillers, The Old Enemy, is due to be published in April 2021. Early life Porter was born into a military family. His father was the fifth generation to serve in the King's Royal Rifle Corps. His early years were spent in Germany and a succession of Army camps. He was educated at a village school in Worcestershire, a prep school he heartily loathed, Wellington College, and the University of Manchester. Activism and events