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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

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…

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Where hope takes root

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Cradle of libertines

England likes to think of itself as “the cradle of liberty”. True, if you think…

Michael Janofsky

Fight madness with more madness

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

Peter Phelps

Time for a class act

January is San Francisco’s coldest and wettest month, and generally its quietest. That wasn’t the…

Peter Phelps

Hopeful histories

“No news is good news”, the saying goes, but the reverse is also true. Good…

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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…

Peter Lawlor

Creative destruction

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

Sally Hayden

War reporter

Cambridge In early September I attended the British Red Cross summer school in international humanitarian…

Sam Fowles

Might is not right

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

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Philip Hensher

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

Reach out and AI’ll be there

Róisín Lanigan

Living on cloud wine

Nick Cohen

Our society's cavalier attitude towards alcoholism

Roaring Olympics

Boris Starling

One hundred years since the last Paris Games

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

Toxic in the extreme

Anjana Menon

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

The emblem of excess

Christobel Kent

Fashion is the essence of capitalism

Defining women

Milli Hill

Hard-won rights are at stake

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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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Dominic Cummings

Rowan Pelling talks to Dominic Cummings about a start-up party, Brexit, the covid inquiry, Whitehall and other shit-shows

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Simon Heffer

Chips Channon

Brilliance blighted by poor judgment

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Sally Phillips

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

Zandra Rhodes

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Benny Higgins

Banker

Ronni Ancona

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Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Dan Snow

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Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

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Rosie Holt

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Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Vince Cable

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

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Andrew Roberts

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Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Dan Snow

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Sally Phillips

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Helen Brown

“It is a religion that asks women to have many children and really sacrifice their bodies”

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

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

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Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and troubled 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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Apocalypse now and then

Anne Billson

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Tribal fashion

Christobel Kent

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I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

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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Sucking the marrow out of life

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

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

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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