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Sonia Sodha

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

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…

Mic Wright

Past futures

When we reach for past visions of the future to measure against our reality, we…

Peter Phelps

Hopeful histories

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

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Cradle of libertines

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

Peter Phelps

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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Sonia Sodha

The road to recovery

First in 1945, then 1997 and now 2024. The three…

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…

Peter Lawlor

History’s false promises

In 2015, when interviewing Jonathan Sumption, Matt Stadlen asked a deceptively simple question: “Why does…

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

The funk of flunk

Cosmo Landesman

There’s an art to failing gracefully

Women have it good

Zoe Strimpel

Capitalism works for the sisterhood

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

Magical Money Theory

Vince Cable

The challenges facing the UK economy and long-term issues that hinder growth

Magical Money Theory

Vince Cable

The challenges facing the UK economy and long-term issues that hinder growth

From crusader crosses at marches to political speeches quoting the Old Testament, a strident form of Christian nationalism is crossing the Atlantic, threatening Britain's traditional separation of church and state

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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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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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Ben Wilson

Pasquale Paoli

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

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Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Vince Cable

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

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Sally Phillips

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

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Benny Higgins

Banker

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

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Benny Higgins

Banker

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

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)

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Sally Phillips

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

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

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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

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

Tessa Hadley

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

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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

Gothic delights

Elizabeth Sharkey

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

There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and trouble alcoholic

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Primetime Potus

Anne Billson

STYLE

Tribal fashion

Christobel Kent

POETRY

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

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

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

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New images, new perceptions

Max Lunn

MUSIC

Hop aboard the turntable

Laura Barton

CULTURE

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Helen Brown

“The vitriol online can really knock your confidence”

Cathy Newman

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

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