David Toube

David Toube is Director of Policy at Quilliam. David was educated at Southampton University and at Brasenose College, Oxford, and is a barrister by training. He taught law at Queen Mary University of London, and then practiced law for 25 years, where he headed the European bank regulatory practice of a prominent international law firm. David has been active in counter-extremism activism and writing for fifteen years, and has written for The Guardian, the Spectator, the New Statesman and other news outlets, and has appeared widely on current affairs television programmes. His focus is on far Left, far Right and Islamist extremism, and on polarisation and conspiracism within political culture.