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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

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…

Peter Lawlor

Creative destruction

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

Sam Fowles

Posh performance

I recently wrote a column for The National that provoked some, let’s say, passionate reactions. Two…

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Mic Wright

Past futures

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

Sam Fowles

Might is not right

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

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Sonia Sodha

The pitfalls of assisted dying

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are…

Simon Heffer

An age without rival

It wasn’t long before Hallowe’en that I noted many of…

Nathaniel Tapley

Passing as upper class

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

Mic Wright

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Peter Lawlor

Question time

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

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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

The silent struggle

Tomiwa Owolade

Disadvantages in education can be more nuanced than just race and gender

La La land

Joan Harrison

The road to Hollywood is paved with anti-ageing procedures

#MeToo returns

Charlotte Proudman

New high-profile cases expose deep-rooted misogyny

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

The carefree socialites of the 1920s can teach us how to let our hair down

Mumbo Jumbo

Ben Wormald

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

Silence of the lambs

Fred Skulthorp

The Left’s embrace of the covid consensus has badly impacted the world’s poor

More than the sum of our parts

Diana Thomas

Our common identity runs deeper than our individuality

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Ben Delo

Entrepreneur, philanthropist and co-founder of BitMEX

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Dominic Cummings

Rowan Pelling talks to Dominic Cummings about a start-up party, Brexit, the covid inquiry, Whitehall and other shit-shows

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Simon Heffer

Chips Channon

Brilliance blighted by poor judgment

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Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Benny Higgins

Banker

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Vince Cable

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

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Sally Phillips

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

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

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Benny Higgins

Banker

Vince Cable

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

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Sally Phillips

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

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Daniel Howell

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DBC Pierre

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Helen Brown

“It is a religion that asks women to have many children and really sacrifice their bodies”

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

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

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Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and trouble alcoholic

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Apocalypse now and then

Anne Billson

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Tribal fashion

Christobel Kent

POETRY

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

Things to Consider in the Design of Your First Space Suit by Harry Man

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

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The herstory of art

Max Lunn

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Raye against the machine

Laura Barton

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Helen Brown

“While there was no shortage of women writers getting published, their novels weren’t being honoured like the ones men were writing”

Kate Mosse

Kate Mosse discusses the new women’s prize for non-fiction and her latest novel The Ghost Ship 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

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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