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The protest lasted for just under five hours. Around 1,500 protesters have marched through central London to call on the UK Government to close the Iranian embassy. Demonstrators gathered outside…
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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…
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…
Falling better
The only thing slower than writing books, it seems, is publishing them. The mechanisms of…
Roar deal
A century ago, America was ablaze in progressive change: Jazz. Flappers. Shorter skirts. Speakeasies. The…
Where hope takes root
As headlines veer toward the apocalyptic – from collapsing ecosystems to vanishing species – it’s…
Time’s arrow
“Lest we forget” is carved into stone in village squares, town halls and city monuments…
Time for a class act
January is San Francisco’s coldest and wettest month, and generally its quietest. That wasn’t the…
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Correcting our Grammar mistake
During the Blair years, when recalcitrant Conservatives longed for a…
All that jazz
When we were finally released from lockdown in summer 2021, a hedonistic return to real…
America’s third man
With all the focus on Joe Biden-Donald Trump redux, it’s easy to ignore more than…
Passing as upper class
Lots of things from the 1990s are difficult to explain to your teenage children now:…
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Silence of the lambs
The Left’s embrace of the covid consensus has badly impacted the world’s poor
Fierce courage
How a Belgian princess, a waitress and a British nurse risked their lives during WWI
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Dollar fever
Competing currencies won’t unlock the world from the shackles of US financial hegemony
Magical Money Theory
The challenges facing the UK economy and long-term issues that hinder growth
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Charles Spencer
The writer, historian, podcaster and 9th Earl Spencer Charles Spencer talks about boarding school trauma, class aspirations and the importance of speaking out
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
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Acts of sedition
Shakespeare’s Richard II was pure treason, so how did he get away with it? asks the author
The politics of colour
Tina Gharavi’s full response to the controversy surrounding Queen Cleopatra, a Netflix series about the identity of the legendary last pharaoh
Gothic delights
Exploring the history of a genre that first bewitched Elizabeth as a teenage Joy Division fan
CULTURE
“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 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
The critically acclaimed novelist discusses her 1950s-set novella The Party with Helen Brown
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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Mid-life fever
A return to India prompts reflection on cycles of change in medicine and life
Hungry Ghosts
Clearing the flat of her late, estranged father, Patricia finds the recipe for forgiveness
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