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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…

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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…

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Passing as upper class

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

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Where hope takes root

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Might is not right

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History’s false promises

In 2015, when interviewing Jonathan Sumption, Matt Stadlen asked a deceptively simple question: “Why does…

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Breaking the class ceiling

Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony…

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Correcting our Grammar mistake

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Falling better

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The new nomadism

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Natural hazards

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

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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

Too low for zero

Khaled Bazzi

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

AI makes you stupid

Susie Alegre

It's shrinking your brain – but don't panic, because swearing can reboot your cognitive creativity

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Philip Hensher

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

Guns and poses

Michael Burleigh

The Ukraine invasion is changing the future of warfare

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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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Christobel Kent

Fashion is the essence of capitalism

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Sathnam Sanghera

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

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Michael Palin

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Caroline Calloway

The headline-hitting American social climber who found fame via a “faked” Cambridge application

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Award-winning writer and comedian

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Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

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England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Phil Hammond

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Ed Vaizey

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Michael Holding

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Rosie Holt

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Vince Cable

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

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Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

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Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Joanna Lumley

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Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

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Phil Hammond

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Robert Peston

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Michael Holding

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Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

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Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

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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

Cathy Newman

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

Francesca Beauman

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

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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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

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Christobel Kent

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Max Lunn

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Raye against the machine

Laura Barton

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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

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

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

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