Zoe Strimpel

Zoe Strimpel is a British conservative columnist and commentator. Strimpel writes a weekly opinion column for The Sunday Telegraph.

Early life and education

Strimpel was born into a Jewish family in London in 1982. She has a brother. She grew up in Boston in the United States, and moved back to England aged 16. She attended the independent Bedales School, then read English at Jesus College, Cambridge, and later attended Wolfson College, Cambridge, where she completed an MPhil in Gender Studies. She then undertook a PhD in Modern British History at the University of Sussex, funded by an Asa Briggs scholarship, before becoming a research fellow for two years on a Leverhulme Trust-funded project at Sussex, Cambridge and the British Library on the business practices of feminist publishers in the 1970s.
In November 2020, Strimpel became a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the University of Warwick, researching relational tumult following the Divorce [Reform Act 1969].

Career

From 2008, Strimpel was a features and lifestyle writer for City AM. She has written on gender relations for Elle, the Sunday Times Style magazine, and HuffPost. She has also contributed to The Jewish Chronicle, and writes for The Spectator, and UnHerd. She writes a weekly opinion column for The Sunday Telegraph, covering gender, dating, identity, and topical events.
Strimpel has appeared on radio and television to discuss topics such as dating, feminism, and diversity. She presented a podcast on culture called Hyped! with the historian Tom Stammers from 2020 to 2024. She has declared that she is a "pretty major fan of Israel" and wants "Israel’s case to be disseminated to the world".

Personal life

Strimpel lives in a Jewish neighbourhood of north London.
She had a daughter in 2024. She is a US citizen.