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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

An age without rival

It wasn’t long before Hallowe’en that I noted many of the significant women in my life – including my wife and the editrix of this august publication – were devoting…

Michael Janofsky

Fight madness with more madness

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

Peter Lawlor

Creative destruction

According to a quip once made by Peter Ustinov, “Just before the world blows itself…

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Bonkers bunkers

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

Guy Shrubsole

English pastoral

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

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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

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…

Mic Wright

High society

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

Michael Janofsky

Roar deal

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

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

Sporting heroes and villains

Boris Starling

The gap between winning trophies and winning hearts

A side dish of bugs, please

Taras Grescoe

Taras travels to Mexico in search of sustainable food for the future

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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

Toxic in the extreme

Anjana Menon

India’s women still face a widespread culture of lethal misogyny

The risk factor

Robert Jackman

New fiscal regulations don’t address the thin line between scams and foolish investments

Know thy past

Gillian Mosely

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

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Shami Chakrabarti

Lawyer and human rights activist Shami Chakrabarti defends the ECHR and discusses how notions of liberty are inverted to justify oppression

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Michael Palin

Talks about his new volume of diaries, his support for the Prison Reform Trust, the loss of his wife Helen, and his determination to keep travelling in his 80s

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Ben Wilson

Pasquale Paoli

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

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Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

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Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Sally Phillips

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

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Vince Cable

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

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Daniel Howell

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Lynn Barber

author and journalist

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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

Francesca Beauman

The Persephone Books publisher discusses forgotten gems written by women and the imprint’s 150th book

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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Elizabeth Sharkey

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

There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and trouble alcoholic

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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The life fantastic

Anne Billson

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Give cardis the slip

Christobel Kent

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There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

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

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Art is not a luxury

Rachel Campbell Johnston

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Man-made girl bands

Lily Webb

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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