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Reducing EHCP entitlement would be ‘the wrong place for the Government to start reforming’ the Send system, the Education Committee chairwoman said. The Department for Education (DfE) should establish national…

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Sonia Sodha

Breaking the class ceiling

Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony Blair’s “education, education, education” pitch in 1997. They are similarly echoed in Keir Starmer’s vision for Britain: he has repeatedly framed his desire to be…

Simon Heffer

Correcting our Grammar mistake

During the Blair years, when recalcitrant Conservatives longed for a pledge to open new grammar schools, no class warrior threw himself into the battle against selective education with such ferocity…

Mic Wright

High society

In 1989, Richard Hoggart wrote in his introduction to George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan…

Peter Lawlor

Question time

A little while ago, I was invited to a small private dinner at a well-known…

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Wade Graham

The new nomadism

Thrust into the global warming era, there’s much handwringing about how to build, and increasingly…

Michael Janofsky

Long division

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

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Sonia Sodha

Breaking the class ceiling

Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony…

Simon Heffer

New protest laws would be extreme

Having been bored into a stupor by a supposedly Conservative…

Sam Fowles

Might is not right

The date of 26 January 2024 may become a watershed moment in the history of…

Guy Shrubsole

English pastoral

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

Kate Devlin

You’re on camera

There’s a quotation by American historian Timothy Snyder currently circulating on social media. It comes…

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

Caste list

Anjana Menon

From Modi to cricket to young influencers, caste is no longer a barrier to the top in India

The risk factor

Robert Jackman

New fiscal regulations don’t address the thin line between scams and foolish investments

Faux fizz

Rebecca Gibb

The dishonourable history of wine fraud, from fake bubbly to bogus Bordeaux

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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

The end is nigh for old politics

Lily Webb

The young are desperate for change

Living on cloud wine

Nick Cohen

Our society's cavalier attitude towards alcoholism

All my friends are having Botox now

Róisín Lanigan

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Henry Dimbleby

Our diet is killing us, but politicians and big business don’t want to know, says the food entrepreneur and writer

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Joanna Grochowicz

Michael Palin

Talks about his new volume of diaries, his support for the Prison Reform Trust, the loss of his wife Helen, and his determination to keep travelling in his 80s

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Simon Heffer

Chips Channon

Brilliance blighted by poor judgment

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Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Sally Phillips

The much-loved UK actress on comedy, faith, disability and Christmas

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Vince Cable

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

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Rosie Holt

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Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Sally Phillips

The much-loved UK actress on comedy, faith, disability and Christmas

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

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actress, comedian, author

DBC Pierre

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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

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

Tessa Hadley

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

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

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Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

Acts of sedition

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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Fevered imagination

Anne Billson

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Dressing for doomsday

Christobel Kent

POETRY

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

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Art in an emergency

Max Lunn

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Get Back

Laura Barton

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Helen Brown

“When you see extremely violent sexual stuff on stage you always need to ask: who’s creating it for who and why?”

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

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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