Tania Branigan is political correspondent for the Guardian. Born in 1975, she began writing as a music journalist for Melody Maker. After graduating in Social and Political Science at Cambridge she was granted a Scott Trust bursary to take a postgraduate diploma at City University. She joined the Manchester Evening News in 1998 and moved to the Guardian two years later. Before joining the lobby she reported on everything from teenage bohemians
in Shanghai to the impact of EU accession on the Roma in Slovakia, winning an Amnesty International award for her coverage of Guantanamo Bay. She has also worked on The Australian in Sydney and the Washington Post in DC. Her
interests include reading, music, food and travel, especially within Asia.