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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

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…

Peter Phelps

Time for a class act

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Defenestration nation

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

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Keiran Goddard

Falling better

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

Peter Phelps

Beware Project Fear

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the googly-eyed sage Yoda lectured…

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Sonia Sodha

The road to recovery

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

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:…

Peter Lawlor

Rent in two

In this class-themed issue I want to touch on an important social distinction in the…

Sam Fowles

Time’s arrow

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

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

The wheel turns

Nick Hunt

Why doomsday scenarios appeal to our linear concept of time

A side dish of bugs, please

Taras Grescoe

Taras travels to Mexico in search of sustainable food for the future

Magical Money Theory

Vince Cable

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

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

Too broke to multiply

Róisín Lanigan

Covet Coventry

Lily Webb

Bleak, beautiful and built on hope

Too low for zero

Khaled Bazzi

We need to talk about testosterone deficiency, a debilitating syndrome that affects millions of men

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Sathnam Sanghera

The British writer who says our multicultural empire led to a multicultural society

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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

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Andrew Lownie

Earl Mountbatten

Re-evaluating the legacy of one of the last century’s most controversial leaders

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Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Benny Higgins

Banker

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Vince Cable

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

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

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Benny Higgins

Banker

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Sally Phillips

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

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Vince Cable

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

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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

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

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

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Hymn to Hestia

Natalie Haynes

The forgotten goddess of the hearth

Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

Shakespeare’s Richard II was pure treason, so how did he get away with it? asks the author

There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and troubled alcoholic

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The life fantastic

Anne Billson

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Give cardis the slip

Christobel Kent

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Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

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Digital art merits attention

Max Lunn

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Sucking the marrow out of life

Laura Barton

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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

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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