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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

Why Labour has to be conservative

Here’s a paradox for you: Britain is a conservative country that hates the Conservative party. As our American cousins vulgarly say: “Do the math.” On 4 July 24 per cent…

Keiran Goddard

Falling better

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

Peter Lawlor

History’s false promises

In 2015, when interviewing Jonathan Sumption, Matt Stadlen asked a deceptively simple question: “Why does…

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Peter Lawlor

Question time

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

Michael Janofsky

Defensive positions

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

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Sonia Sodha

Breaking the class ceiling

Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony…

Simon Heffer

New protest laws would be extreme

Having been bored into a stupor by a supposedly Conservative…

Michael Janofsky

America’s third man

With all the focus on Joe Biden-Donald Trump redux, it’s easy to ignore more than…

Christopher Hart

Hedge fund

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

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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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

Magical Money Theory

Vince Cable

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

The joy of text

Kate Devlin

Online life brings perennial pleasures

Oyster grit

Claudia Cockerell

Two Cornish fishermen defy the failings of South West Water

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

Reach out and AI’ll be there

Róisín Lanigan

Silence of the lambs

Fred Skulthorp

The Left’s embrace of the covid consensus has badly impacted the world’s poor

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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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Joanna Grochowicz

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

Reputations Reputations – Front Page TCE

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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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Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Sally Phillips

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

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Benny Higgins

Banker

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

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Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Vince Cable

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

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Benny Higgins

Banker

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

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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

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

Hanna Pylväinen

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

Tessa Hadley

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

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There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and trouble alcoholic

Gothic delights

Elizabeth Sharkey

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

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Apocalypse now and then

Anne Billson

STYLE

Dressing for dinner

Christobel Kent

POETRY

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

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

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New images, new perceptions

Max Lunn

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Hop aboard the turntable

Laura Barton

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Helen Brown

“For too long, women writing literary fiction – especially the funny kind – were not being taken seriously”

Amanda Craig

Discusses older women and her new book The Three Graces

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