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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

An age without rival

It wasn’t long before Hallowe’en that I noted many of the significant women in my life – including my wife and the editrix of this august publication – were devoting…

Nathaniel Tapley

Cradle of libertines

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

Kate Devlin

You’re on camera

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

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Peter Phelps

Time for a class act

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Bonkers bunkers

In December 2023 Ron Hubbard, a security consultant from Texas (not to be confused with…

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Sonia Sodha

The pitfalls of assisted dying

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are…

Simon Heffer

An age without rival

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Michael Janofsky

Fight madness with more madness

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

Peter Phelps

Hopeful histories

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

Wade Graham

The rewilding Republican

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

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

AI makes you stupid

Susie Alegre

It's shrinking your brain – but don't panic, because swearing can reboot your cognitive creativity

Stealth wealth

Róisín Lanigan

A crack in the Millennial dream of equality

Talking back to Big Brother

Laura Dodsworth

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

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

Guns and poses

Michael Burleigh

The Ukraine invasion is changing the future of warfare

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

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Hein de Haas

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

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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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Mic Wright

Caroline Calloway

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

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Phil Hammond

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Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

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Doctor, author and science presenter

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Benny Higgins

Banker

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Dan Snow

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Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

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Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Rosie Holt

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Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Sally Phillips

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

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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Joanna Lumley

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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

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

Francesca Beauman

The Persephone Books publisher discusses forgotten gems written by women and the imprint’s 150th book

Hanna Pylväinen

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

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Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

Shakespeare’s Richard II was pure treason, so how did he get away with it? asks the author

There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and trouble alcoholic

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Gangster wrap

Anne Billson

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Girls will be boys

Christobel Kent

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Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

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

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The art of perturbation

Rachel Campbell Johnston

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Rock and Rigoletto

Laura Barton

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Helen Brown

“Mum set up the company just after her fifth child, my younger brother, left home”

Francesca Beauman

The Persephone Books publisher discusses forgotten gems written by women and the imprint’s 150th book

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