Please Welcome Joshua Livestro
I’m happy to announce that we’ve got a new co-blogger: a conservative Dutchman living in London (yes, the capital of Britain, that one): Joshua Livestro, a married father of two. He studied Politics at Leiden University (which is almost as good as the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) and History at the University of Cambridge, and worked as a policy adviser at Conservative Party head quarters in Westminster, England, before moving on to become a speechwriter to a European Commissioner in Brussels, Belgium. Currenly based in Nottingham, England, he’s a columnist with Holland’s largest-circulation newspaper De Telegraaf (Europe’s 8th largest newspaper by circulation, slightly bigger than The Times of London) and with the Dutch edition of Reader’s Digest Magazine. He’s published extensively in both the Dutch and international press, with his English language pieces appearing in (among others) the Wall Street Journal, National Review, Weekly Standard, European Voice (a Brussels-based subsidiary of The Economist), Jerusalem Post, and on sites like TCS Daily and Pajamas Media.
Joshua created a new Dutch blog last month for which I also write: Dagelijkse Standaard. It’s a big conservative group blog best described as the Dutch version of NRO’s the Corner.
Unlike yours truly, Joshua doesn’t have a liberal bone in his body. His greatest wish is to work for the 2012 Sarah Palin presidential campaign.
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