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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

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…

Nathaniel Tapley

Defenestration nation

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

Sam Fowles

Posh performance

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

Khaled Bazzi

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…

Kate Devlin

You’re on camera

There’s a quotation by American historian Timothy Snyder currently circulating on social media. It comes…

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Sonia Sodha

Breaking the class ceiling

Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony…

Simon Heffer

Correcting our Grammar mistake

During the Blair years, when recalcitrant Conservatives longed for a…

Christopher Hart

Hedge fund

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

Monique Roffey

Only connect

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

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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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

The funk of flunk

Cosmo Landesman

There’s an art to failing gracefully

The silent struggle

Tomiwa Owolade

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

The end is nigh for old politics

Lily Webb

The young are desperate for change

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

Guns and poses

Michael Burleigh

The Ukraine invasion is changing the future of warfare

Oyster grit

Claudia Cockerell

Two Cornish fishermen defy the failings of South West Water

Freedumb, you say?

Gabrielle Bauer

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Lipika Pelham

Zahra Joya

Airlifted to London after the Taliban invasion in 2021, journalist Zahra Joya runs a platform for silenced Afghan women

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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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Caroline Calloway

The headline-hitting American social climber who found fame via a “faked” Cambridge application

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Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Sally Phillips

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

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Vince Cable

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

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

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Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Benny Higgins

Banker

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Craig Brown

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Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Katie Brand

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Helen Brown

“Mum set up the company just after her fifth child, my younger brother, left home”

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

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

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

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Gothic delights

Elizabeth Sharkey

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

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

Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

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Apocalypse now and then

Anne Billson

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Girls will be boys

Christobel Kent

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Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

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

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

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The herstory of art

Max Lunn

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Hop aboard the turntable

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

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

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

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