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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

Why Labour has to be conservative

Here’s a paradox for you: Britain is a conservative country that hates the Conservative party. As our American cousins vulgarly say: “Do the math.” On 4 July 24 per cent…

Sam Fowles

Posh performance

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

Lucy Moore

All that jazz

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

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Sam Fowles

Unfree speech

Free speech is “under threat”, or so we are continually told. Under threat from whom?…

Keiran Goddard

Falling better

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

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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…

Mic Wright

Hold the blank page

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Sam Fowles

Might is not right

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

Peter Phelps

Time for a class act

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

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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

The nostalgia myth

Gavin Esler

The UK’s historical illiteracy has led to delusions that create problems for the future

Magical Money Theory

Vince Cable

The challenges facing the UK economy and long-term issues that hinder growth

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

Baby Doomers

Róisín Lanigan

Falling birth rates are a sign of existential angst

Fantastic fungi

Nick Hunt

Why we should lose our fear of the ancient art of foraging

#MeToo returns

Charlotte Proudman

New high-profile cases expose deep-rooted misogyny

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Lipika Pelham

Zahra Joya

Airlifted to London after the Taliban invasion in 2021, journalist Zahra Joya runs a platform for silenced Afghan women

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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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Andrew Lownie

The Duke of Windsor

How he actively engaged with Nazi Germany during World War II

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Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Sally Phillips

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

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

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Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Andrew Roberts

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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

Tessa Hadley

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

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

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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 trouble alcoholic

Gothic delights

Elizabeth Sharkey

Exploring the history of a genre that first bewitched Elizabeth as a teenage Joy Division fan

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Gangster wrap

Anne Billson

STYLE

Give cardis the slip

Christobel Kent

POETRY

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

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

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Art in an emergency

Max Lunn

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Sucking the marrow out of life

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

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

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