Jour­nal­ist and broad­cast­er Jonathan Freed­land is a week­ly colum­nist for the Guardian, where he edits the paper’s op-ed pages and chairs its Edi­to­r­i­al Board. He was pre­vi­ous­ly the Guardian’s Wash­ing­ton cor­re­spon­dent. In 2014 he won the George Orwell Prize for Jour­nal­ism. He lives in Lon­don with his wife and their two chil­dren. @Freedland.