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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

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…

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Kate Devlin

You’re on camera

There’s a quotation by American historian Timothy Snyder currently circulating on social media. It comes…

Michael Janofsky

Fight madness with more madness

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

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?…

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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 Lawlor

Creative destruction

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

Michael Janofsky

Roar deal

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

Michael Janofsky

America’s third man

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

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

The young ones

Lily Webb

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

Magical Money Theory

Vince Cable

The challenges facing the UK economy and long-term issues that hinder growth

Bacteria Wars

Lee Hudson

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

All my friends are having Botox now

Róisín Lanigan

Keeping Russia in check

Peter Hitchens

A wrong move by a fractious West could trigger all-out war

The joy of text

Kate Devlin

Online life brings perennial pleasures

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Henry Dimbleby

Our diet is killing us, but politicians and big business don’t want to know, says the food entrepreneur and writer

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Rory Stewart

The former MP talks to Peter Phelps and Rowan Pelling about global conflict and the possibility of his return to front-line politics

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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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Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Benny Higgins

Banker

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

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Sally Phillips

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

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Vince Cable

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

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

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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

Francesca Beauman

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

Hanna Pylväinen

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

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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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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The life fantastic

Anne Billson

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Anything goes

Christobel Kent

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

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

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Digital art merits attention

Max Lunn

MUSIC

Sucking the marrow out of life

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

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

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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