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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…

Simon Heffer

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…

Keiran Goddard

Falling better

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

Peter Phelps

Time for a class act

January is San Francisco’s coldest and wettest month, and generally its quietest. That wasn’t the…

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Defenestration nation

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

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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Sonia Sodha

The road to recovery

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

Simon Heffer

New protest laws would be extreme

Having been bored into a stupor by a supposedly Conservative…

Nathaniel Tapley

Bonkers bunkers

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

Michael Janofsky

Roar deal

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

Michael Janofsky

Fight madness with more madness

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

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

Roaring Olympics

Boris Starling

One hundred years since the last Paris Games

A calamity of lost youth

Toby Green

High numbers of deaths among young people are being ignored by the media and politicians

Cough cough

Jennifer Traig

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

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?

Know thy past

Gillian Mosely

Current shocking violence in Israel and Gaza has its roots in ages of conflict and injustice

Faux fizz

Rebecca Gibb

The dishonourable history of wine fraud, from fake bubbly to bogus Bordeaux

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Charles Spencer

The writer, historian, podcaster and 9th Earl Spencer Charles Spencer talks about boarding school trauma, class aspirations and the importance of speaking out

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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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Simon Heffer

Chips Channon

Brilliance blighted by poor judgment

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Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Benny Higgins

Banker

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Vince Cable

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

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

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John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Sally Phillips

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

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Benny Higgins

Banker

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Dan Snow

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Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

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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

Cathy Newman

Channel 4’s first female news anchor discusses trailblazing women, internet trolls, sexual assault and her new book The Ladder

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

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Elizabeth Sharkey

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

Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

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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Gangster wrap

Anne Billson

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Girls will be boys

Christobel Kent

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I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

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The art of perturbation

Rachel Campbell Johnston

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Prisoner with a key

Laura Barton

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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

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