Thomson became a trainee on The Times in 1990 before becoming a foreign correspondent, feature writer and political reporter for the newspaper.
In 1997 she moved to The Daily Telegraph as a columnist and leader writer and also wrote the restaurant reviews and political interviews before re-joining The Times in 2008.
[7] In December 2022, Thomson was chosen as the Interviewer of the Year at the Press Gazette British Journalism Awards.
Her grandfather, GP Thomson, was awarded the Nobel prize for physics for the discovery of the wave properties of the electron.
Alice along with her husband live at Chevithorne Barton, an estate in Devon, which houses the Plant Heritage National Oak collection.