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Sonia Sodha

Breaking the class ceiling

Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony Blair’s “education, education, education” pitch in 1997. They are similarly echoed in Keir Starmer’s vision for Britain: he has repeatedly framed his desire to be…

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…

Sam Fowles

Time’s arrow

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

Christopher Hart

Hedge fund

According to the great Dr Oliver Rackham, hedges may be the oldest manmade structures on…

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Mic Wright

High society

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

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

The pitfalls of assisted dying

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are…

Simon Heffer

An age without rival

It wasn’t long before Hallowe’en that I noted many of…

Guy Shrubsole

English pastoral

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

Peter Lawlor

Creative destruction

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

Peter Lawlor

Rent in two

In this class-themed issue I want to touch on an important social distinction in the…

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

AI: A wake-up call

Khaled Bazzi

Flying the flag

Gavin Esler

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

Too broke to multiply

Róisín Lanigan

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

Reach out and AI’ll be there

Róisín Lanigan

Fantastic fungi

Nick Hunt

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

Covet Coventry

Lily Webb

Bleak, beautiful and built on hope

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Ben Delo

Entrepreneur, philanthropist and co-founder of BitMEX

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Lysette Anthony

The actress speaks about the repercussions of outing Harvey Weinstein for repeatedly assaulting her as a young woman

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Chuck Berry

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

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Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Benny Higgins

Banker

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Sally Phillips

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

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

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Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Benny Higgins

Banker

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Vince Cable

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

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Andrew Roberts

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Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Craig Brown

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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

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

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

Hanna Pylväinen

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

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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

Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

Shakespeare’s Richard II was pure treason, so how did he get away with it? asks the author

There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and trouble alcoholic

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Fevered imagination

Anne Billson

STYLE

Dressing for dinner

Christobel Kent

POETRY

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

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

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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

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