Henry Porter (journalist)

He is also an activist, chairing the Joint Media Unit of the People’s Vote campaign (until 2019) and The Convention, which stages large scale political conferences.

The event was designed to explore the implications of the global surveillance disclosures by the NSA contractor Edward Snowden, published by, among others, the Guardian during the summer of 2013.

On 12–13 May 2017, Porter put on Convention on Brexit and the Political Crash at Central Hall, Westminster with speakers as diverse as Bob Geldof, Michael Gove, Akala, Alastair Campbell, and Jarvis Cocker.

His novel Brandenburg, set at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, which he covered as a journalist, won the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award.

Firefly, which is set on the migrant trail in 2015 and is the first in a quartet of contemporary thrillers, won the Wilbur Smith Prize for Adventure writing.

[citation needed] In 2015, he was surprised to find himself elected as the President of Cricket Club at Birlingham, Worcestershire, whose ground he inherited from his father Harry Porter in 2014.