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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

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…

Monique Roffey

Only connect

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

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…

Kate Devlin

You’re on camera

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Passing as upper class

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

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Sonia Sodha

The road to recovery

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

Simon Heffer

Correcting our Grammar mistake

During the Blair years, when recalcitrant Conservatives longed for a…

Guy Shrubsole

English pastoral

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

Peter Lawlor

Question time

A little while ago, I was invited to a small private dinner at a well-known…

Lucy Moore

All that jazz

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

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

Don’t look now

Susie Alegre

We’re being monitored at home, at work and on our streets

Guns and poses

Michael Burleigh

The Ukraine invasion is changing the future of warfare

The young ones

Lily Webb

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

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

Sporting heroes and villains

Boris Starling

The gap between winning trophies and winning hearts

Les Temps Modernes

Antony Beevor

The Liberation of Paris in August 1944 led to an era of philosophical, political and sexual ferment

The end is nigh for old politics

Lily Webb

The young are desperate for change

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Gavin Esler

Sathnam Sanghera

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

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Rowan Pelling

Dominic Cummings

Rowan Pelling talks to Dominic Cummings about a start-up party, Brexit, the covid inquiry, Whitehall and other shit-shows

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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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Sally Phillips

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

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Vince Cable

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

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

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Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Vince Cable

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

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

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Helen Brown

“When you see extremely violent sexual stuff on stage you always need to ask: who’s creating it for who and why?”

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

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

Francesca Beauman

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

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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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

Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

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Girls will be boys

Christobel Kent

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Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

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

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Raye against the machine

Laura Barton

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Helen Brown

“While there was no shortage of women writers getting published, their novels weren’t being honoured like the ones men were writing”

Kate Mosse

Kate Mosse discusses the new women’s prize for non-fiction and her latest novel The Ghost Ship with Helen Brown

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