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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…

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Correcting our Grammar mistake

During the Blair years, when recalcitrant Conservatives longed for a pledge to open new grammar schools, no class warrior threw himself into the battle against selective education with such ferocity…

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Natural hazards

The first novel that truly affected me as a young reader was eschatological in nature.…

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Roar deal

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

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Where hope takes root

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Might is not right

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Defenestration nation

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

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Sonia Sodha

The pitfalls of assisted dying

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are…

Simon Heffer

Correcting our Grammar mistake

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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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Cradle of libertines

England likes to think of itself as “the cradle of liberty”. True, if you think…

Keiran Goddard

Falling better

The only thing slower than writing books, it seems, is publishing them. The mechanisms of…

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Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

The end is nigh for old politics

Lily Webb

The young are desperate for change

A ban on thinking

Mic Wright

Even contemplating protest now risks arrest

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?

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

Freedumb, you say?

Gabrielle Bauer

Only connect

Yasmin Azad

A sense of belonging is intrinsic to our mental health

The silent struggle

Tomiwa Owolade

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

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Sociologist and myth-buster Hein de Haas explains how politicians’ pandering to prejudice has backfired

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Michael Palin

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Catherine the Great

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

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Rosie Holt

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Dan Snow

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The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

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Lord David Owen

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

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Rosie Holt

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Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Zandra Rhodes

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DBC Pierre

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Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

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Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

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Helen Brown

“Sex is the place where the animal body erupts into the life of the thinking mind”

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

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

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How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

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Jean Rhys, literary genius and trouble alcoholic

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Helen Brown

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Emma Flint

The crime author discusses her new book Other Women

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