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Sonia Sodha

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…

Peter Phelps

Beware Project Fear

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

Wade Graham

The new nomadism

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

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Peter Lawlor

Creative destruction

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

Guy Shrubsole

English pastoral

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

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Sonia Sodha

Breaking the class ceiling

Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony…

Simon Heffer

Why Labour has to be conservative

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

Peter Phelps

Time for a class act

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Passing as upper class

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

Michael Janofsky

Roar deal

A century ago, America was ablaze in progressive change: Jazz. Flappers. Shorter skirts. Speakeasies. The…

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

Spun sugar

Kate Devlin

Childhood books feed us Christmas dreams by the spoonful

Calorie counter

Róisín Lanigan

How arbitrary numbers altered my relationship with food

Fantastic fungi

Nick Hunt

Why we should lose our fear of the ancient art of foraging

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

#MeToo returns

Charlotte Proudman

New high-profile cases expose deep-rooted misogyny

Birth room battles

Milli Hill

Women are not being properly consulted about their wishes during childbirth

Put AI in its place

Susie Alegre

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

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Sam Fowles

Shami Chakrabarti

Lawyer and human rights activist Shami Chakrabarti defends the ECHR and discusses how notions of liberty are inverted to justify oppression

In Conversation In Conversation – Front Page TCE

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Rowan Pelling

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

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Terence Blacker

Chuck Berry

The revolutionary musician who single-handedly transformed rock 'n' roll

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Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Benny Higgins

Banker

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

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Benny Higgins

Banker

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

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Helen Brown

“Most people, most of the time, are if not collaborators then co-operators with the ruling regime”

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

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

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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Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and trouble alcoholic

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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Apocalypse now and then

Anne Billson

STYLE

Dressing for utopia

Christobel Kent

POETRY

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

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

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

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New images, new perceptions

Max Lunn

MUSIC

Man-made girl bands

Lily Webb

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Helen Brown

“For too long, women writing literary fiction – especially the funny kind – were not being taken seriously”

Amanda Craig

Discusses older women and her new book The Three Graces

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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