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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

New protest laws would be extreme

Having been bored into a stupor by a supposedly Conservative government’s serial failure to be conservative, something Rishi Sunak said recently suddenly had a voice inside me crying, “Whoa!”. His…

Michael Janofsky

Roar deal

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Defenestration nation

Postmortems on the corpse of the Conservative party are much like those on real bodies:…

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Wade Graham

The rewilding Republican

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

Peter Lawlor

Question time

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

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The pitfalls of assisted dying

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are…

Simon Heffer

An age without rival

It wasn’t long before Hallowe’en that I noted many of…

Guy Shrubsole

English pastoral

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

Lucy Moore

All that jazz

When we were finally released from lockdown in summer 2021, a hedonistic return to real…

Michael Janofsky

Defensive positions

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

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The end of days

Boris Starling

If the apocalypse comes, we will almost certainly have brought it on ourselves

The canary in my coalmine

Paul Moss

Close encounters of a conspiratorial kind

Roaring Olympics

Boris Starling

One hundred years since the last Paris Games

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Róisín Lanigan

How arbitrary numbers altered my relationship with food

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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

I post therefore I am

Róisín Lanigan

Uncovering the online persona

The many and the few

Amir Amirani

Reflecting on the twentieth anniversary of the Iraq War

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Amir Amirani

Reflecting on the twentieth anniversary of the Iraq War

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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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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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Pasquale Paoli

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

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Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

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actress, comedian, author

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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Phil Hammond

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Craig Brown

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Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Zandra Rhodes

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Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

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Booker Prize-winning author

Dan Snow

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Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

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Lynn Barber

author and journalist

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England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

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Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

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The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

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Katie Brand

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Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

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Member of the House of Lords

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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

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

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

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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Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

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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Anything goes

Christobel Kent

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Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

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

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

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The wisdom of native art

Max Lunn

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Hop aboard the turntable

Laura Barton

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Helen Brown

“People ask, is it prose or poetry? Put it on whichever shelf you want, I don’t fucking care!”

Max Porter

Award-winning British novelist, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers discusses his new book Shy

Tessa Hadley

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

Hanna Pylväinen

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

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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