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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…

Guy Shrubsole

English pastoral

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

Monique Roffey

Only connect

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

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Where hope takes root

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

Michael Janofsky

Defensive positions

When I was a kid and the Cold War was in full bloom, we were…

Sam Fowles

Posh performance

I recently wrote a column for The National that provoked some, let’s say, passionate reactions. Two…

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Sonia Sodha

The pitfalls of assisted dying

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are…

Simon Heffer

New protest laws would be extreme

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Michael Janofsky

Fight madness with more madness

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

Sarah Hall

Natural hazards

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

Sam Fowles

Unfree speech

Free speech is “under threat”, or so we are continually told. Under threat from whom?…

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

The disappearance of Abdullah Öcalan

Toby Green

Imprisoned for a quarter-century, the Kurdish leader has been all but forgotten

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

Deadly game

Nicholas Blincoe

Palestinians have been kicked around for decades – could football have something to teach politicians on every side?

The nostalgia myth

Gavin Esler

The UK’s historical illiteracy has led to delusions that create problems for the future

The canary in my coalmine

Paul Moss

Close encounters of a conspiratorial kind

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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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Pasquale Paoli

The Corsican guerilla commander who inspired the modern quest for charismatic political leaders

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Benny Higgins

Banker

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

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Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Dan Snow

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Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Craig Brown

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Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Zandra Rhodes

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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

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

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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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

Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

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The life fantastic

Anne Billson

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Give cardis the slip

Christobel Kent

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

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Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

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Digital art merits attention

Max Lunn

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Sucking the marrow out of life

Laura Barton

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Helen Brown

“All I had ever wanted to do was write a novel. When I held the first copy, aged 42, I cried”

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

Bee Wilson

The food writer, journalist, author and charity campaigner for TastEd discusses festive family rituals, celebrating Christmas as a newly single parent and her first recipe book

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