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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…

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…

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Past futures

When we reach for past visions of the future to measure against our reality, we…

Guy Shrubsole

English pastoral

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

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Where hope takes root

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Creative destruction

According to a quip once made by Peter Ustinov, “Just before the world blows itself…

Michael Janofsky

Defensive positions

When I was a kid and the Cold War was in full bloom, we were…

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Sonia Sodha

The road to recovery

First in 1945, then 1997 and now 2024. The three…

Simon Heffer

New protest laws would be extreme

Having been bored into a stupor by a supposedly Conservative…

Mic Wright

High society

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Defenestration nation

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

Keiran Goddard

Falling better

The only thing slower than writing books, it seems, is publishing them. The mechanisms of…

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Philip Hensher

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

Don’t look now

Susie Alegre

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

Too broke to multiply

Róisín Lanigan

The funk of flunk

Cosmo Landesman

There’s an art to failing gracefully

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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

Mumbo Jumbo

Ben Wormald

Political discourse has become a cauldron of curses, conspiracies and clickbait, where inflammatory rhetoric can manifest into deadly reality

Toxic in the extreme

Anjana Menon

India’s women still face a widespread culture of lethal misogyny

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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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Lysette Anthony

The actress speaks about the repercussions of outing Harvey Weinstein for repeatedly assaulting her as a young woman

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Chuck Berry

The revolutionary musician who single-handedly transformed rock 'n' roll

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Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Andrew Roberts

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Sally Phillips

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

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Dan Snow

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Dan Snow

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Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Andrew Roberts

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Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Craig Brown

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Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

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Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

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Helen Brown

This is a book that faces the awful possibility of a wind’s death amid climate collapse

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

Cathy Newman

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

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

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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

Hymn to Hestia

Natalie Haynes

The forgotten goddess of the hearth

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Fevered imagination

Anne Billson

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Dressing for dinner

Christobel Kent

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Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

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Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

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The wisdom of native art

Max Lunn

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Sucking the marrow out of life

Laura Barton

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Helen Brown

“People ask, is it prose or poetry? Put it on whichever shelf you want, I don’t fucking care!”

Max Porter

Award-winning British novelist, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers discusses his new book Shy

Hanna Pylväinen

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

Francesca Beauman

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

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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