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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…

Michael Janofsky

Long division

Our good friend Kalyan, a gay Indian-American, was so distraught by rising discrimination against Blacks,…

Christopher Hart

Hedge fund

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

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…

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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Sonia Sodha

The pitfalls of assisted dying

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are…

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…

Wade Graham

The rewilding Republican

Some years ago, I saw the legendary radical environmentalist Dave Foreman give his famous “howl…

Peter Lawlor

History’s false promises

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

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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

Defining women

Milli Hill

Hard-won rights are at stake

Talking back to Big Brother

Laura Dodsworth

Trust is a two-way process and self-reliance is needed to counter government overreach

One of us

Nicola Rollock

Social class and race are not mutually exclusive

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

All my friends are having Botox now

Róisín Lanigan

The wheel turns

Nick Hunt

Why doomsday scenarios appeal to our linear concept of time

Beside the sea

Madeleine Bunting

English seaside resorts evoke both deep nostalgia and class divisions

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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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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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Lucy Ward

Catherine the Great

The enlightened empress who inoculated herself to protect her subjects and advance science

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Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Benny Higgins

Banker

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Sally Phillips

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

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

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DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Sally Phillips

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

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Vince Cable

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

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Andrew Roberts

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Helen Brown

“When you see extremely violent sexual stuff on stage you always need to ask: who’s creating it for who and why?”

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

Tessa Hadley

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

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

Cathy Newman

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

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There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and trouble alcoholic

Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

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Playing through the nose

Anne Billson

STYLE

Tribal fashion

Christobel Kent

POETRY

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

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

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The herstory of art

Max Lunn

MUSIC

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

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