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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…

Nathaniel Tapley

Cradle of libertines

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

Mic Wright

Past futures

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

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Mic Wright

High society

In 1989, Richard Hoggart wrote in his introduction to George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan…

Nathaniel Tapley

Defenestration nation

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

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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…

Nathaniel Tapley

Passing as upper class

Lots of things from the 1990s are difficult to explain to your teenage children now:…

Peter Phelps

Beware Project Fear

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

Michael Janofsky

America’s third man

With all the focus on Joe Biden-Donald Trump redux, it’s easy to ignore more than…

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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

Reviled swimmers

Claudia Cockerell

Restricted access to clean waters leads to legal action

A side dish of bugs, please

Taras Grescoe

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

Put AI in its place

Susie Alegre

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

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

Reviled swimmers

Claudia Cockerell

Restricted access to clean waters leads to legal action

Beside the sea

Madeleine Bunting

English seaside resorts evoke both deep nostalgia and class divisions

Muddle class

Joshua Mcloughlin

Social divides are increasingly ambiguous

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Entrepreneur, philanthropist and co-founder of BitMEX

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Lysette Anthony

The actress speaks about the repercussions of outing Harvey Weinstein for repeatedly assaulting her as a young woman

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Pasquale Paoli

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

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Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Benny Higgins

Banker

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Sally Phillips

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

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Vince Cable

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

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

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Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Benny Higgins

Banker

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Vince Cable

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

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

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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

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

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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Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

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

Zealots not harlots

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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Poverty porn

Anne Billson

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Dressing for doomsday

Christobel Kent

POETRY

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

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Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

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New images, new perceptions

Max Lunn

MUSIC

Hop aboard the turntable

Laura Barton

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Helen Brown

“Sex is the place where the animal body erupts into the life of the thinking mind”

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