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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…

Sam Fowles

Time’s arrow

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Hold the blank page

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Where hope takes root

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

Michael Janofsky

Roar deal

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

Peter Lawlor

History’s false promises

In 2015, when interviewing Jonathan Sumption, Matt Stadlen asked a deceptively simple question: “Why does…

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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…

Sam Fowles

Might is not right

The date of 26 January 2024 may become a watershed moment in the history of…

Nathaniel Tapley

Bonkers bunkers

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Defenestration nation

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

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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

The silent struggle

Tomiwa Owolade

Disadvantages in education can be more nuanced than just race and gender

Caste list

Anjana Menon

From Modi to cricket to young influencers, caste is no longer a barrier to the top in India

Xi the Peacemaker

Michael Burleigh

China’s diplomatic manoeuvring wrong-foots the West

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

Covet Coventry

Lily Webb

Bleak, beautiful and built on hope

The colder war

Chris Lincoln-Jones

AI weaponry has already made sci-fi a reality, so the big question is: can we control the machines?

Baby Doomers

Róisín Lanigan

Falling birth rates are a sign of existential angst

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Ben Delo

Entrepreneur, philanthropist and co-founder of BitMEX

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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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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

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Sally Phillips

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

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

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Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Vince Cable

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

Sally Phillips

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Ed Balls

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Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

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Helen Brown

“The current generation don’t seem to be using their power for much more than shooting penis-shaped rockets into outer space”

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

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

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

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

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Elizabeth Sharkey

Exploring the history of a genre that first bewitched Elizabeth as a teenage Joy Division fan

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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Dressing for utopia

Christobel Kent

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Prisoner with a key

Laura Barton

CULTURE

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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

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