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Sonia Sodha

The road to recovery

First in 1945, then 1997 and now 2024. The three times in history that a Labour government has been elected on a sweeping majority, crushing the Conservative incumbents. What Keir Starmer…

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…

Michael Janofsky

Defensive positions

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

Sally Hayden

War reporter

Cambridge In early September I attended the British Red Cross summer school in international humanitarian…

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Sam Fowles

Time’s arrow

“Lest we forget” is carved into stone in village squares, town halls and city monuments…

Nathaniel Tapley

Bonkers bunkers

In December 2023 Ron Hubbard, a security consultant from Texas (not to be confused with…

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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…

Mic Wright

Past futures

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

Peter Phelps

Hopeful histories

“No news is good news”, the saying goes, but the reverse is also true. Good…

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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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

La La land

Joan Harrison

The road to Hollywood is paved with anti-ageing procedures

Baby Doomers

Róisín Lanigan

Falling birth rates are a sign of existential angst

The risk factor

Robert Jackman

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

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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

Defining women

Milli Hill

Hard-won rights are at stake

Fake farm story

Joy Lo Dico

Shouldn’t we be doing more for British farmers?

Lessons from History

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We asked some of our favourite historians and writers what key insights they have gained from studying the past

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Joanna Grochowicz

Charles Spencer

The writer, historian, podcaster and 9th Earl Spencer Charles Spencer talks about boarding school trauma, class aspirations and the importance of speaking out

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Rory Stewart

The former MP talks to Peter Phelps and Rowan Pelling about global conflict and the possibility of his return to front-line politics

Reputations Reputations – Front Page

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Lucy Ward

Catherine the Great

The enlightened empress who inoculated herself to protect her subjects and advance science

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Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Benny Higgins

Banker

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Sally Phillips

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

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

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Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Benny Higgins

Banker

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

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Helen Brown

“Most people, most of the time, are if not collaborators then co-operators with the ruling regime”

Mary Beard

The classicist, Cambridge don and trustee of the British Museum discusses flamingo-brain feasts, gender surgery in antiquity and her new book Emperor of Rome

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

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

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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

FILM

Poverty porn

Anne Billson

STYLE

Dressing for doomsday

Christobel Kent

POETRY

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

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

ART

Art is not a luxury

Rachel Campbell Johnston

MUSIC

Prisoner with a key

Laura Barton

CULTURE

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Helen Brown

“The vitriol online can really knock your confidence”

Cathy Newman

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

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