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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

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…

Sam Fowles

Might is not right

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

Michael Janofsky

Fight madness with more madness

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

Mic Wright

High society

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

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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…

Wade Graham

The new nomadism

Thrust into the global warming era, there’s much handwringing about how to build, and increasingly…

Peter Lawlor

Question time

A little while ago, I was invited to a small private dinner at a well-known…

Guy Shrubsole

English pastoral

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

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

Too low for zero

Khaled Bazzi

We need to talk about testosterone deficiency, a debilitating syndrome that affects millions of men

Les Temps Modernes

Antony Beevor

The Liberation of Paris in August 1944 led to an era of philosophical, political and sexual ferment

Xi the Peacemaker

Michael Burleigh

China’s diplomatic manoeuvring wrong-foots the West

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

Magical Money Theory

Vince Cable

The challenges facing the UK economy and long-term issues that hinder growth

The silent struggle

Tomiwa Owolade

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

Trans positive

Róisín Lanigan

We’re living in Terf times

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Henry Dimbleby

Our diet is killing us, but politicians and big business don’t want to know, says the food entrepreneur and writer

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Ian Anderson

The leader of prog rock band Jethro Tull talks about the end of days, faith, fencesitting, Jacob Rees-Mogg and the band’s new album, RökFlöte

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Simon Heffer

Chips Channon

Brilliance blighted by poor judgment

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Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Sally Phillips

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

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Vince Cable

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

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Andrew Roberts

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Sally Phillips

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

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Daniel Howell

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Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

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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

Hanna Pylväinen

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

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

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

Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

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

Gothic delights

Elizabeth Sharkey

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

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Poverty porn

Anne Billson

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Dressing for utopia

Christobel Kent

POETRY

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

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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Hop aboard the turntable

Laura Barton

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Helen Brown

“Most people, most of the time, are if not collaborators then co-operators with the ruling regime”

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

Tessa Hadley

The critically acclaimed novelist discusses her 1950s-set novella The Party with Helen Brown

Cathy Newman

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

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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