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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

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…

Michael Janofsky

Fight madness with more madness

Most of my friends and I live in a bubble (Los Angeles) within a bubble…

Sarah Hall

Natural hazards

The first novel that truly affected me as a young reader was eschatological in nature.…

Christopher Hart

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According to the great Dr Oliver Rackham, hedges may be the oldest manmade structures on…

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Sonia Sodha

The pitfalls of assisted dying

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are…

Simon Heffer

Why Labour has to be conservative

Here’s a paradox for you: Britain is a conservative country…

Michael Janofsky

Roar deal

A century ago, America was ablaze in progressive change: Jazz. Flappers. Shorter skirts. Speakeasies. The…

Sally Hayden

War reporter

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

Peter Phelps

Hopeful histories

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

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

A calamity of lost youth

Toby Green

High numbers of deaths among young people are being ignored by the media and politicians

Beside the sea

Madeleine Bunting

English seaside resorts evoke both deep nostalgia and class divisions

Xi the Peacemaker

Michael Burleigh

China’s diplomatic manoeuvring wrong-foots the West

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

Democracy inaction

Gavin Esler

From Russia to Rwanda, a year of record global voting masks a deepening crisis for democratic freedom

Put AI in its place

Susie Alegre

And that’s a job for human rights experts, not tech billionaires

The funk of flunk

Cosmo Landesman

There’s an art to failing gracefully

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Sathnam Sanghera

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

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Joanna Grochowicz

Michael Palin

Talks about his new volume of diaries, his support for the Prison Reform Trust, the loss of his wife Helen, and his determination to keep travelling in his 80s

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Ben Wilson

Pasquale Paoli

The Corsican guerilla commander who inspired the modern quest for charismatic political leaders

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Andrew Roberts

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Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Sally Phillips

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

Benny Higgins

Banker

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Vince Cable

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

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

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Vince Cable

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

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Sally Phillips

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

Craig Brown

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Zandra Rhodes

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Helen Brown

“Mum set up the company just after her fifth child, my younger brother, left home”

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

Tessa Hadley

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

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

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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

Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

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

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Primetime Potus

Anne Billson

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Anything goes

Christobel Kent

POETRY

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

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

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Digital art merits attention

Max Lunn

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Man-made girl bands

Lily Webb

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Helen Brown

“All I had ever wanted to do was write a novel. When I held the first copy, aged 42, I cried”

Emma Flint

The crime author discusses her new book Other Women

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