Matthew Syed is an award-winning journalist on the times, writing for both the sports pages and the comment pages.He is a three-time Commonwealth table-tennis champion and competed...view moreMatthew Syed is an award-winning journalist on the times, writing for both the sports pages and the comment pages.He is a three-time Commonwealth table-tennis champion and competed in two Olympics.He studied PPE at Balliol College Oxford where he was awarded a prize-winning first class degree.view less