Daniel Finkel­stein is a week­ly polit­i­cal colum­nist at The Times of Lon­don. For­mer­ly an advis­er to Prime Min­is­ter John Major, he was appoint­ed to the House of Lords in 2013. He recent­ly became a direc­tor of Chelsea Foot­ball Club. He is mar­ried with three chil­dren and lives in Pin­ner, a sub­urb of Lon­don. He is grand­son of Dr. Alfred Wiener, founder of the Wiener Library, the world’s old­est Holo­caust archive, where he is a patron.