Introduction
Henry Porter (born 1953) is an English author and journalist. He is a writer of thrillers and was, until 2014, a regular columnist for The Observer. He is also the British editor of Vanity Fair.
Porter's articles are mainly concerned with liberty and civil rights. In February 2009, he co-founded the Convention on Modern Liberty.
On the Orwell Prize's journalism shortlist for 2009, he wrote the award-winning novel Brandenburg, also titled Brandenburg Gate.
Political positions
In December 2016, Porter wrote that "Not much has changed in the past 70 years. Just because we live in a post-ideological world — one where Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump may confront each other with the dismal recognition of gangsters — doesn’t mean that Russia has dropped its primary mission of destabilizing Europe." He also wrote that Russian President Putin is "a former K.G.B. agent who, it is no accident, shares the name Vladimir Ilyich with Lenin."