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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…

Rowan Pelling

Letter from the editor

It often feels there are only three topics worth discussing: sex, death and freedom. And…

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Passing as upper class

Lots of things from the 1990s are difficult to explain to your teenage children now:…

Michael Janofsky

America’s third man

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

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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…

Kate Devlin

You’re on camera

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

Michael Janofsky

Long division

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

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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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

Reach out and AI’ll be there

Róisín Lanigan

Sporting heroes and villains

Boris Starling

The gap between winning trophies and winning hearts

The wheel turns

Nick Hunt

Why doomsday scenarios appeal to our linear concept of time

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

More than the sum of our parts

Diana Thomas

Our common identity runs deeper than our individuality

The funk of flunk

Cosmo Landesman

There’s an art to failing gracefully

Trans positive

Róisín Lanigan

We’re living in Terf times

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Gavin Esler

Sathnam Sanghera

The British writer who says our multicultural empire led to a multicultural society

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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

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Terence Blacker

Chuck Berry

The revolutionary musician who single-handedly transformed rock 'n' roll

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Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Vince Cable

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

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Sally Phillips

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

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

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Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

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Helen Brown

“Sex is the place where the animal body erupts into the life of the thinking mind”

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

Hanna Pylväinen

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

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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Gothic delights

Elizabeth Sharkey

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

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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Fevered imagination

Anne Billson

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Girls will be boys

Christobel Kent

POETRY

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

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

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The wisdom of native art

Max Lunn

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Man-made girl bands

Lily Webb

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Helen Brown

“The current generation don’t seem to be using their power for much more than shooting penis-shaped rockets into outer space”

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

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