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The pitfalls of assisted dying

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are introduced to is Isaiah Berlin’s famous distinction between “freedom to” and “freedom from”: an illustration of the fact that giving…

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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…

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A little while ago, I was invited to a small private dinner at a well-known…

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The road to recovery

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An age without rival

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Defenestration nation

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

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Fight madness with more madness

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If the apocalypse comes, we will almost certainly have brought it on ourselves

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Nicola Rollock

Social class and race are not mutually exclusive

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Anjana Menon

From Modi to cricket to young influencers, caste is no longer a barrier to the top in India

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

The canary in my coalmine

Paul Moss

Close encounters of a conspiratorial kind

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Antony Beevor

The Liberation of Paris in August 1944 led to an era of philosophical, political and sexual ferment

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The revolutionary musician who single-handedly transformed rock 'n' roll

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Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

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

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Daniel Howell

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Ed Balls

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Tom Curry

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Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

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The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

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John Lloyd

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The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

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Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

John Lloyd

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Mike Figgis

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Phil Hammond

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Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Lucy Easthope

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Benny Higgins

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Vince Cable

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

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Daniel Howell

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Andrew Roberts

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Helen Brown

“When you see extremely violent sexual stuff on stage you always need to ask: who’s creating it for who and why?”

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

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

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

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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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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Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

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

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Dressing for utopia

Christobel Kent

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The art of perturbation

Rachel Campbell Johnston

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Sucking the marrow out of life

Laura Barton

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Helen Brown

“When you see extremely violent sexual stuff on stage you always need to ask: who’s creating it for who and why?”

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

Tessa Hadley

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

Hanna Pylväinen

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

Francesca Beauman

The Persephone Books publisher discusses forgotten gems written by women and the imprint’s 150th book

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Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

Gothic delights

Elizabeth Sharkey

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

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Anne Billson

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Anything goes

Christobel Kent

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The art of perturbation

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