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Sonia Sodha

The pitfalls of assisted dying

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are introduced to is Isaiah Berlin’s famous distinction between “freedom to” and “freedom from”: an illustration of the fact that giving…

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…

Wade Graham

The new nomadism

Thrust into the global warming era, there’s much handwringing about how to build, and increasingly…

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…

Kate Devlin

You’re on camera

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

Sam Fowles

Unfree speech

Free speech is “under threat”, or so we are continually told. Under threat from whom?…

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Sonia Sodha

The pitfalls of assisted dying

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are…

Simon Heffer

Why Labour has to be conservative

Here’s a paradox for you: Britain is a conservative country…

Mic Wright

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Rowan Pelling

Letter from the editor

It often feels there are only three topics worth discussing: sex, death and freedom. And…

Michael Janofsky

Fight madness with more madness

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

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

The wheel turns

Nick Hunt

Why doomsday scenarios appeal to our linear concept of time

A side dish of bugs, please

Taras Grescoe

Taras travels to Mexico in search of sustainable food for the future

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

Squeezed dry

Claudia Cockerell

The water companies have drained the coffers as well as the rivers

The canary in my coalmine

Paul Moss

Close encounters of a conspiratorial kind

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The Interview The Interview - Front Page

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Lipika Pelham

Zahra Joya

Airlifted to London after the Taliban invasion in 2021, journalist Zahra Joya runs a platform for silenced Afghan women

In Conversation In Conversation - Front Page TCE

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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

Reputations Reputations - Front Page

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Simon Heffer

Chips Channon

Brilliance blighted by poor judgment

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Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Sally Phillips

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

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

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Sally Phillips

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

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Vince Cable

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

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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

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

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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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

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

FILM

Dressing for utopia

Christobel Kent

POETRY

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

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

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

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Raye against the machine

Laura Barton

CULTURE

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Helen Brown

“For too long, women writing literary fiction – especially the funny kind – were not being taken seriously”

Amanda Craig

Discusses older women and her new book The Three Graces

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