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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…

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…

Peter Phelps

Time for a class act

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

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

Bonkers bunkers

In December 2023 Ron Hubbard, a security consultant from Texas (not to be confused with…

Mic Wright

High society

In 1989, Richard Hoggart wrote in his introduction to George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan…

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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…

Sam Fowles

Time’s arrow

“Lest we forget” is carved into stone in village squares, town halls and city monuments…

Nathaniel Tapley

Defenestration nation

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

Michael Janofsky

Fight madness with more madness

Most of my friends and I live in a bubble (Los Angeles) within a bubble…

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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

The funk of flunk

Cosmo Landesman

There’s an art to failing gracefully

Birth room battles

Milli Hill

Women are not being properly consulted about their wishes during childbirth

Flying the flag

Gavin Esler

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

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

AI makes you stupid

Susie Alegre

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

Xi the Peacemaker

Michael Burleigh

China’s diplomatic manoeuvring wrong-foots the West

Living on cloud wine

Nick Cohen

Our society's cavalier attitude towards alcoholism

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Martin Rees

Gavin Esler talks to the UK’s Astronomer Royal. "The solutions for reducing existential threats are within our grasp"

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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

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Lucy Ward

Catherine the Great

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

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Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

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Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Dan Snow

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Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Vince Cable

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

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

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actress, comedian, author

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

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Vince Cable

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

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

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Banker

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Ronni Ancona

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Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Rosie Holt

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John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Dan Snow

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Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Sally Phillips

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

Daniel Howell

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Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Jeremy Paxman

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Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

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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

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

Cathy Newman

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

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

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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

Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

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Gangster wrap

Anne Billson

STYLE

Anything goes

Christobel Kent

POETRY

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

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

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

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Art is not a luxury

Rachel Campbell Johnston

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Get Back

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

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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