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Sonia Sodha

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…

Wade Graham

The new nomadism

Thrust into the global warming era, there’s much handwringing about how to build, and increasingly…

Sam Fowles

Unfree speech

Free speech is “under threat”, or so we are continually told. Under threat from whom?…

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Cradle of libertines

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

Peter Phelps

Time for a class act

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

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Sonia Sodha

The road to recovery

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

Simon Heffer

Why Labour has to be conservative

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

Lucy Moore

All that jazz

When we were finally released from lockdown in summer 2021, a hedonistic return to real…

Michael Janofsky

Long division

Our good friend Kalyan, a gay Indian-American, was so distraught by rising discrimination against Blacks,…

Sam Fowles

Posh performance

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

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

Sporting heroes and villains

Boris Starling

The gap between winning trophies and winning hearts

The Place of No Return

Nick Hunt

The human-caused devastation of the Aral Sea landscape has given birth to the strangest myths

A calamity of lost youth

Toby Green

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

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

Freedumb, you say?

Gabrielle Bauer

Too broke to multiply

Róisín Lanigan

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Lipika Pelham

Zahra Joya

Airlifted to London after the Taliban invasion in 2021, journalist Zahra Joya runs a platform for silenced Afghan women

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Rowan Pelling

Lysette Anthony

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

Reputations Reputations – Front Page TCE

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Ben Wilson

Pasquale Paoli

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

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Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Sally Phillips

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

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Vince Cable

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

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DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Sally Phillips

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

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Vince Cable

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

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Benny Higgins

Banker

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

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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

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

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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There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and trouble alcoholic

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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Playing through the nose

Anne Billson

STYLE

Tribal fashion

Christobel Kent

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There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

Things to Consider in the Design of Your First Space Suit by Harry Man

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

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The wisdom of native art

Max Lunn

MUSIC

Rock and Rigoletto

Laura Barton

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Helen Brown

“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

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