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Sonia Sodha

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…

Simon Heffer

An age without rival

It wasn’t long before Hallowe’en that I noted many of the significant women in my life – including my wife and the editrix of this august publication – were devoting…

Peter Phelps

Time for a class act

January is San Francisco’s coldest and wettest month, and generally its quietest. That wasn’t the…

Michael Janofsky

Fight madness with more madness

Most of my friends and I live in a bubble (Los Angeles) within a bubble…

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

As headlines veer toward the apocalyptic – from collapsing ecosystems to vanishing species – it’s…

Guy Shrubsole

English pastoral

Guy Shrubsole explores England’s buried tradition of land reform, where less than one percent of…

Nathaniel Tapley

Defenestration nation

Postmortems on the corpse of the Conservative party are much like those on real bodies:…

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Sonia Sodha

Breaking the class ceiling

Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony…

Simon Heffer

Why Labour has to be conservative

Here’s a paradox for you: Britain is a conservative country…

Christopher Hart

Hedge fund

According to the great Dr Oliver Rackham, hedges may be the oldest manmade structures on…

Lucy Moore

All that jazz

When we were finally released from lockdown in summer 2021, a hedonistic return to real…

Nathaniel Tapley

Passing as upper class

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

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

All my friends are having Botox now

Róisín Lanigan

My generation’s missing out on the naughties

Róisín Lanigan

Perspectives

Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

Les Temps Modernes

Antony Beevor

The Liberation of Paris in August 1944 led to an era of philosophical, political and sexual ferment

AI makes you stupid

Susie Alegre

It's shrinking your brain – but don't panic, because swearing can reboot your cognitive creativity

More than the sum of our parts

Diana Thomas

Our common identity runs deeper than our individuality

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Joanna Grochowicz

Charles Spencer

The writer, historian, podcaster and 9th Earl Spencer Charles Spencer talks about boarding school trauma, class aspirations and the importance of speaking out

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Rowan Pelling

Ian Anderson

The leader of prog rock band Jethro Tull talks about the end of days, faith, fencesitting, Jacob Rees-Mogg and the band’s new album, RökFlöte

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Lucy Ward

Catherine the Great

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

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE - Q&As

Vince Cable

Former Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Secretary of State (2010-2015)

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

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John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Vince Cable

Former Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Secretary of State (2010-2015)

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

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Helen Brown

“The vitriol online can really knock your confidence”

Cathy Newman

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

Naomi Alderman

The novelist, gamer and Bailey Women’s Prize winner discusses tech billionaires, apocalypse bunkers, her fans Obama and Gates, and her new book The Future

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

Hanna Pylväinen

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

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Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

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

The politics of colour

Tina Gharavi

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

There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and troubled alcoholic

FILM

Dressing for doomsday

Christobel Kent

POETRY

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

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Rock and Rigoletto

Laura Barton

CULTURE

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Helen Brown

“Mum set up the company just after her fifth child, my younger brother, left home”

Francesca Beauman

The Persephone Books publisher discusses forgotten gems written by women and the imprint’s 150th book

Sarah Hall

The acclaimed novelist discusses her Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Helm, writing a "strange biography" of Britain's only named wind, climate collapse and "radical optimism," and why sorority is the key to consolidating power shifts and positive change

Tessa Hadley

The critically acclaimed novelist discusses her 1950s-set novella The Party with Helen Brown

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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