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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…

Simon Heffer

New protest laws would be extreme

Having been bored into a stupor by a supposedly Conservative government’s serial failure to be conservative, something Rishi Sunak said recently suddenly had a voice inside me crying, “Whoa!”. His…

Sam Fowles

Posh performance

I recently wrote a column for The National that provoked some, let’s say, passionate reactions. Two…

Michael Janofsky

America’s third man

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

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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Wade Graham

The new nomadism

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Passing as upper class

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Sonia Sodha

The road to recovery

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

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An age without rival

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Guy Shrubsole

English pastoral

Guy Shrubsole explores England’s buried tradition of land reform, where less than one percent of…

Peter Phelps

Hopeful histories

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

Peter Phelps

Free for all

When you’re stuck in the swamp of a midlife crisis, there’s generally only two ways…

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Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

Stealth wealth

Róisín Lanigan

A crack in the Millennial dream of equality

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Gavin Esler

The rise of Britain's new patriotism: loud, flag-obsessed and convinced the nation is falling apart

The young ones

Lily Webb

The new generation of men are emotionally literate and comfortable in their skin

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

Don’t look now

Susie Alegre

We’re being monitored at home, at work and on our streets

Covet Coventry

Lily Webb

Bleak, beautiful and built on hope

The 15-minute protesters

Fred Skulthorp

Green measures are stirring up populist dissent

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Sathnam Sanghera

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

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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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Catherine the Great

The enlightened empress who inoculated herself to protect her subjects and advance science

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Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Andrew Roberts

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Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Craig Brown

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Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Zandra Rhodes

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Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Vince Cable

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

Ronni Ancona

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Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

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Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Andrew Roberts

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Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Jeremy Paxman

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Chris van Tulleken

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Ed Vaizey

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John Lloyd

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Dan Snow

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Ed Balls

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Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

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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

Hanna Pylväinen

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

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

Francesca Beauman

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

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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

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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Fevered imagination

Anne Billson

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Girls will be boys

Christobel Kent

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Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

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Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

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Art in an emergency

Max Lunn

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Hop aboard the turntable

Laura Barton

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Helen Brown

“People ask, is it prose or poetry? Put it on whichever shelf you want, I don’t fucking care!”

Max Porter

Award-winning British novelist, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers discusses his new book Shy

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

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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