During her years as a columnist at The Independent, Christina established a reputation for treading where others fear to tread. In a column about “the limits of multiculturalism”, for example, she argued that it was important to be clear about the things a multicultural society could accommodate, and the things it couldn’t. The column went viral, and Christina was invited to speak about multiculturalism on TV and radio and at events around the country.

In columns about nursing, she has broken the taboo that all nurses are “angels”, and has had hundreds of emails and letters from readers thanking her for saying the things they haven’t felt able to say.

In columns about immigration, she has said what many left-leaning liberal journalists often don’t say: that the white working classes in this country have good reason to feel fed up. She has also written about the casual racism  - the “prejudice and pursuit of cool” – that still runs through almost every aspect of British society, from the bottom to the top.

In The Guardian, she has written about topics ranging from cancer to poetry, the joys of middle-class drinking and the ethics of banking. Her column about the importance of the arts in education, has had more than 85,000 shares on social media.

Her readers range from bankers and businessmen to poets, writers, policy makers and politicians. She has been invited by politicians across the party political spectrum to talk about issues arising from her columns. A fiercely independent thinker, she writes in a clear, distinctive voice.