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Campaigners warn of ‘damage’ caused by the Government’s aid decisions

Yvette Cooper announced allocations under the official development assistance (ODA) regime on Thursday. Campaigners and aid organisers have been damning in their assessments of the Government’s funding decisions following cuts…

Scotland at a crossroads ahead of ‘critical’ election, says Reform’s Offord

Meningitis outbreak: Students turned away for vaccines in Kent

Ban all mass religious observances, says Farage

Swinney calls on PM to host four nations energy summit amid Middle East conflict

‘Forearmed is forewarned’ William tells students learning life skills

Stalker who posted air gun and handcuffs to Myleene Klass given hospital order

Bank of England holds interest rates but hints at possible hikes

COMMENT

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…

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…

Natural hazards

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

Time for a class act

January is San Francisco’s coldest and wettest month, and generally its quietest. That wasn’t the…

Where hope takes root

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

History’s false promises

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

Creative destruction

According to a quip once made by Peter Ustinov, “Just before the world blows itself…

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COMMENT

The pitfalls of assisted dying

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are…

Why Labour has to be conservative

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

Only connect

Last month I went to Susheila Nasta’s 70th birthday party in Greenwich, south-east London. I’d…

Nathaniel Tapley

Defenestration nation

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

English pastoral

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

Perspectives

All that jazz

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

Nuanced thinking

The disappearance of Abdullah Öcalan

Imprisoned for a quarter-century, the Kurdish leader has been all but forgotten

Silence of the lambs

The Left’s embrace of the covid consensus has badly impacted the world’s poor

Perspectives

All that jazz

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

Beside the sea

Madeleine Bunting

English seaside resorts evoke both deep nostalgia and class divisions

A calamity of lost youth

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

Guns and poses

Michael Burleigh

The Ukraine invasion is changing the future of warfare

PEOPLE

PEOPLE

TCE The Interview The Interview - Front Page

BY

Sathnam Sanghera

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

In Conversation In Conversation - Front Page TCE

BY

Ian Anderson

The leader of prog rock band Jethro Tull talks about the end of days, faith, fencesitting, Jacob Rees-Mogg and the band’s new album, RökFlöte

Reputations Reputations - Front Page

BY

Chips Channon

Brilliance blighted by poor judgment

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE - Q&As

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Tom Curry

Black and white photo of Tom Curry in England Rugby kit

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Benny Higgins

Banker

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE – Q&As

Vince Cable

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

Benny Higgins

Banker

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Tom Curry

Black and white photo of Tom Curry in England Rugby kit

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

CULTURE

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“The vitriol online can really knock your confidence”

Cathy Newman

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

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

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

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

FEATURES

Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

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

Gothic delights

Elizabeth Sharkey

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

There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and trouble alcoholic

Apocalypse now and then

Girls will be boys

Christobel Kent

POETRY

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

New images, new perceptions

Prisoner with a key

CULTURE

The author Interview

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“Climate change is the most important crisis to face us within the memory of human consciousness”

Ben Okri

The recently knighted novelist, essayist, playwright, poet and Booker Prize winner discusses climate change and his new book Tiger Work with Fiona Sturges

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

FEATURES

Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

Film, Film - Front Page, TCE

Primetime Potus

Style, Style - Front Page, TCE

Anything goes

Christobel Kent

POETRY

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

Art, Art - Front Page, TCE

The art of perturbation

Rachel Campbell Johnston

Music, Music - Front Page, TCE

Get Back

Book Reviews

LIFE

Everything started with an E

The enduring legacy of acid house

Funny Woman

The challenges of being a female comic

Crush addict

What makes infatuation so compelling

Buffalo Gal

Unpacking the formative impact of an iconic 1980s pop video

LIFE

Funny Woman

The challenges of being a female comic

Trussst in me…

Siân Wainwright

How do we stop snakes from scamming the elderly?

Hungry Ghosts

Patricia Campbell

Clearing the flat of her late, estranged father, Patricia finds the recipe for forgiveness

The go-between

Growing up in a tied cottage on a landed estate

MIND OVER MATTER

Neurological-based
advice

FROM DR ASH RANPURA

How to be optimistic and an autism diagnosis

Yo-yo dieting and a petrolhead husband

Teenage consent and a flaky friend

Dealing with a child who lies and a dinner party refusenik

Gender norms and New Age neighbours

MIND OVER MATTER

Neurological-based
advice

FROM DR ASH RANPURA

A personality change and a foot fetish

Finding new love and domestic stand-offs

Festive family tensions & disordered eating

In-law etiquette, and seeking an ADHD diagnosis

Mid-life rage and teenage drugs