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The pitfalls of assisted dying

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are introduced to is Isaiah Berlin’s famous distinction between “freedom to” and “freedom from”: an illustration of the fact that giving…

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New protest laws would be extreme

Having been bored into a stupor by a supposedly Conservative government’s serial failure to be conservative, something Rishi Sunak said recently suddenly had a voice inside me crying, “Whoa!”. His…

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Our good friend Kalyan, a gay Indian-American, was so distraught by rising discrimination against Blacks,…

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Breaking the class ceiling

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Why Labour has to be conservative

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Passing as upper class

Lots of things from the 1990s are difficult to explain to your teenage children now:…

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Cradle of libertines

England likes to think of itself as “the cradle of liberty”. True, if you think…

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Last month I went to Susheila Nasta’s 70th birthday party in Greenwich, south-east London. I’d…

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Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

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Susie Alegre

We’re being monitored at home, at work and on our streets

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Claudia Cockerell

Two Cornish fishermen defy the failings of South West Water

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Rick Stroud

How a Belgian princess, a waitress and a British nurse risked their lives during WWI

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

Looking down your nose at “common” behaviour can create a constructive social dynamic

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Chris Lincoln-Jones

AI weaponry has already made sci-fi a reality, so the big question is: can we control the machines?

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Christobel Kent

Fashion is the essence of capitalism

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Róisín Lanigan

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Rory Stewart

The former MP talks to Peter Phelps and Rowan Pelling about global conflict and the possibility of his return to front-line politics

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Catherine the Great

The enlightened empress who inoculated herself to protect her subjects and advance science

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Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

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Helen Brown

“The current generation don’t seem to be using their power for much more than shooting penis-shaped rockets into outer space”

Naomi Alderman

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Ruth Ivo

The former burlesque dancer discusses her fictionalised memoir of Soho life in Performance, the exhilarating freedom of club nights in her youth and “hatching” from an egg on stage

Francesca Beauman

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Tessa Hadley

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Tina Gharavi

Tina Gharavi’s full response to the controversy surrounding Queen Cleopatra, a Netflix series about the identity of the legendary last pharaoh

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Pauline F Kiernan

Shakespeare’s Richard II was pure treason, so how did he get away with it? asks the author

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Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

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Max Lunn

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Sucking the marrow out of life

Laura Barton

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Helen Brown

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Francesca Beauman

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Hanna Pylväinen

Whiting Award and Balcones Fiction Prize-winner discusses her strict Lutheran upbringing and her novel The End of Drum-Time

Cathy Newman

Channel 4’s first female news anchor discusses trailblazing women, internet trolls, sexual assault and her new book The Ladder

Bee Wilson

The food writer, journalist, author and charity campaigner for TastEd discusses festive family rituals, celebrating Christmas as a newly single parent and her first recipe book

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