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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…

Sam Fowles

Posh performance

I recently wrote a column for The National that provoked some, let’s say, passionate reactions. Two…

Michael Janofsky

Defensive positions

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

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Mic Wright

High society

In 1989, Richard Hoggart wrote in his introduction to George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan…

Peter Lawlor

Creative destruction

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

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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…

Nathaniel Tapley

Defenestration nation

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

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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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

Fake farm story

Joy Lo Dico

Shouldn’t we be doing more for British farmers?

The end is nigh for old politics

Lily Webb

The young are desperate for change

Defining women

Milli Hill

Hard-won rights are at stake

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

The 15-minute protesters

Fred Skulthorp

Green measures are stirring up populist dissent

The Place of No Return

Nick Hunt

The human-caused devastation of the Aral Sea landscape has given birth to the strangest myths

The funk of flunk

Cosmo Landesman

There’s an art to failing gracefully

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Gavin Esler

Hein de Haas

Sociologist and myth-buster Hein de Haas explains how politicians’ pandering to prejudice has backfired

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Rory Stewart

The former MP talks to Peter Phelps and Rowan Pelling about global conflict and the possibility of his return to front-line politics

Reputations Reputations – Front Page

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Mic Wright

Caroline Calloway

The headline-hitting American social climber who found fame via a “faked” Cambridge application

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Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Sally Phillips

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

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Vince Cable

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

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

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Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Sally Phillips

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

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Benny Higgins

Banker

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

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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

Cathy Newman

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

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

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The politics of colour

Tina Gharavi

Tina Gharavi’s full response to the controversy surrounding Queen Cleopatra, a Netflix series about the identity of the legendary last pharaoh

There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and troubled alcoholic

Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

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Primetime Potus

Anne Billson

STYLE

Girls will be boys

Christobel Kent

POETRY

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

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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Art is not a luxury

Rachel Campbell Johnston

MUSIC

Rock and Rigoletto

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

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