Portraits of an establishment

Kofi Annan

Secretary-General of the United Nations

Sir David Cannadine

Historian

James Earl Carter

President of the United States

Doris Lessing

Writer and Nobel Laureate

Secretary of State

 

 

Joe Biden

President of the United States

Jude Law

Actor

Sir Alex Younger

Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

A.N. Wilson

Writer

The Duke of Sussex

Sir Jeremy Fleming

Director of GCHQ

Abbas Kiarostami

Film-maker

Lord Renfrew

Archaeologist

Nancy Pelosi

Speaker of the House of Representatives

James Binney

Astrophysicist

© The Warden and Fellows of Merton College

Lady Barbara Judge

Chair of the UK Atomic Energy Authority

Artur Ekert

Professor of Quantum Physics

© The Warden and Fellows of Merton College, Oxford

Stacey Abrams

Politician, political activist and founder of Fair Fight Action

Hamid Karzai

President of Afghanistan

Mindy Chen-Wishart

Dean of the Faculty of Law at Oxford University

© The Warden and Fellows of Merton College, Oxford

Aung San Suu Kyi

President of Burma

Sir Michael Palin

Python

William J. Burns

Director of the CIA

Boris Johnson

Prime Minister

Tawakkol Karman

Journalist and Nobel Peace Laureate

Uhuru Kenyatta

President of Kenya

Noam Chomsky

Philosopher

Dame Cressida Dick

Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police

Bonnie Greer

Playwright

Baroness Scotland of Asthal

Secretary-General of the Commonwealth

The Duke of Cambridge

Emma Sky

Academic

David Cameron

Prime Minister

Tony Blair

Prime Minister

Francesca Shakespeare

Artist

Brian Eno

Musician

Mark Esper

US Secretary of Defence

Dame Mary Beard

Classicist

Sir Keir Starmer QC

Director of Public Prosecutions and Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition

Katrín Jakobsdóttir

Prime Minister of Iceland

General David Petraeus

Director, Central Intelligence Agency, Commander, USCENTCOM, ISAF

Andrew Forrest

Businessman and philanthropist

Sabine Azéma

Actress

Margaret Atwood

Writer

Philip Hensher

Novelist

Efraim Halevy

Head of Mossad

Michael Bloomberg

Mayor of New York City and CEO of Bloomberg L.P.

Michel Roux

Master chef

1941-2020

Mario Vargas Llosa

Writer and Diplomat

Michel Barnier

Politician

Sir John Major

Prime Minister

Gordon Brown

Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer

Robert Swan Mueller III

Director of the FBI and US Justice Department Special Prosecutor

Prince Turki bin Faisal Abdulaziz Al Saud

Head of Saudi Intelligence; Ambassador to the United Kingdom and the United States

Alexander McCall Smith

Writer and Professor of Medical Law

John Randolph Lucas

Philosopher

Alassane Ouattara

President of Côte d’Ivoire

Dame Gillian Beer

Literary critic and President of Clare Hall, Cambridge

Amartya Sen

Economist, Nobel Laureate and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge

Barham Salih

President of Iraq

Raila Odinga

Prime Minister of Kenya

Ban Ki-moon

Secretary-General of the United Nations

Shimon Peres

President and Prime Minister of Israel

Hermann Achille, Count van Rompuy

Prime Minister of Belgium and President of the European Council

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Robert Hannigan

Director-General of GCHQ

John Mahama

President of Ghana

Amélie Nothomb

Novelist

Martti Ahtisaari

President of Finland and Nobel Peace laureate

Imran Khan

Cricketer and Prime Minister of Pakistan

Nambaryn Enkhbayar

Prime Minister and President of Mongolia

Hashim Thaçi

President of Kosovo

Sir Richard Dearlove

Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

Ana Brnabić

Prime Minister of Serbia

Ehud Olmert

Prime Minister of Israel

Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud

Saudi Ambassador to the USA, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist

Rowan Williams

Archbishop of Canterbury and Master of Magdalene College Cambridge

Ashraf Ghani

President of Afghanistan

Sir John Scarlett

Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

Carles Puigdemont

President of Catalonia

Damon Hill

Formula 1 World Champion

Lord Foster

Architect

Erna Solberg

Prime Minister of Norway

Olusegun Obasanjo

President of Nigeria and Chair of the African Union

Joyce Banda

President of Malawi

Sharif Sheikh Ahmed

President of Somalia

Sir David Omand

Director of GCHQ

Enrique Peña Nieto

President of Mexico

Mohammed Khatami

President of Iran

Morgan Tsvangarai

Prime Minister of Zimbabwe

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Prime Minister and President of Turkey

Luis Guillermo Solis

President of Costa Rica

Arseniy Yatsenyuk

Prime Minister of Ukraine

Lord Darroch

Ambassador to the United States

“….the best of us…..”

Filipe Nyusi

President of Mozambique

Jon Stallworthy

Poet and academic

Ann Kenrick

Master of The Charterhouse

Chuka Umunna

Politician

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

President of Somalia

Michelle Bachelet

President of Chile; UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Leyla Hussein

Anti-FGM campaigner and activist; Founder of Daughters of Eve

Helen Clark

Prime Minister of New Zealand

Anne Cartier

Painter

Lauren Child

Writer

Yukiya Amano

Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency

1947-2019

Jacques Rancière

Philosopher

Sir Keith Thomas

Historian

General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith

Chief of the General Staff

Saad El-Din Rafik Al-Hariri

Prime Minister of Lebanon

Dame Ruth Hunt

Chief Executive of Stonewall

Dr. Joseph Pilat

Los Alamos National Laboratory

General Ray Odierno

Chief of Staff of the US Army

Jean-Paul Rappenau

Film Director

Adel al-Jubeir

Saudi Foreign Minister and Ambassador to UK

Evan Davis

Economist and broadcaster

Robert Crumb

Cartoonist and Creator of Fritz the Cat

Julia Gillard

Prime Minister of Australia

Frankie Dettori and Stradivarius after winning the Royal Ascot Gold Cup 2019

Peter Karel Piot, Baron Piot, KCMG, FRCP

Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

GET WELL SOON!

Sir Charles Saumarez Smith

Director of the Royal Academy

Sir David Attenborough

Cory Doctorow

Writer

Margaret MacMillan

Historian

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Prime Minister of Norway; Director-General of the World Health Organization

Lady Hale

President of the Supreme Court

Lord Stern

President of the British Academy

Neil Drury

Artist

Lord Rees

Astronomer Royal, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge and President of the Royal Society

 

Man wearing yukata, Kawaguchiko, Japan

Arata Isozaki

Architect; Winner of the 2019 Pritzker Prize

Guillaume Soro

Prime Minister of the Côte d’Ivoire

Theresa May

Prime Minister

Keith Barnes

Photographer

Louise Mushikiwabo

Secretary-General of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie

Steve Mnuchin

US Treasury Secretary

Ruth Davidson

Politician

Robin Jackson

Chief Executive of the British Academy

Raed Al Saleh

Director of Syria Civil Defence (The White Helmets)

Jasmine

The International Woman of Mystery…….returns

Trisha de Borchgrave

Journalist

Oleksiy Honcharuk

Prime Minister of Ukraine

Armand D’Angour

Classicist, musician and author of Socrates in Love

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Novelist, screenwriter and film-maker

Dalia Qasim

Founder of the Hodeidah Girls Foundation

 

Jonathan Freedland

Journalist

Rory Bremner

Satirist

Myfanwy James

Academic