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The pitfalls of assisted dying

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Simon Heffer

An age without rival

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Cradle of libertines

England likes to think of itself as “the cradle of liberty”. True, if you think…

Peter Phelps

Beware Project Fear

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Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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Peter Phelps

Time for a class act

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Only connect

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Sonia Sodha

Breaking the class ceiling

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Bonkers bunkers

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Peter Lawlor

Rent in two

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Sam Fowles

Time’s arrow

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Philip Hensher

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

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Claudia Cockerell

Two Cornish fishermen defy the failings of South West Water

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Kate Devlin

Childhood books feed us Christmas dreams by the spoonful

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Boris Starling

How Britain is failing Roosevelt's benchmark for a healthy democracy

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

From crusader crosses at marches to political speeches quoting the Old Testament, a strident form of Christian nationalism is crossing the Atlantic, threatening Britain's traditional separation of church and state

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Madeleine Bunting

English seaside resorts evoke both deep nostalgia and class divisions

My generation’s missing out on the naughties

Róisín Lanigan

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Charles Spencer

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Dominic Cummings

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Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Daniel Howell

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Michael Holding

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Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Ed Vaizey

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Helen Brown

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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

Cathy Newman

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

Hanna Pylväinen

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

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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Elizabeth Sharkey

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Helen Brown

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Emma Flint

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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