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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…

Michael Janofsky

Defensive positions

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

Mic Wright

Hold the blank page

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Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Michael Janofsky

Long division

Our good friend Kalyan, a gay Indian-American, was so distraught by rising discrimination against Blacks,…

Rowan Pelling

Letter from the editor

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

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Sonia Sodha

The pitfalls of assisted dying

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are…

Simon Heffer

New protest laws would be extreme

Having been bored into a stupor by a supposedly Conservative…

Michael Janofsky

Fight madness with more madness

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

Christopher Hart

Hedge fund

According to the great Dr Oliver Rackham, hedges may be the oldest manmade structures on…

Nathaniel Tapley

Cradle of libertines

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

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

The silent struggle

Tomiwa Owolade

Disadvantages in education can be more nuanced than just race and gender

A ban on thinking

Mic Wright

Even contemplating protest now risks arrest

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

Covet Coventry

Lily Webb

Bleak, beautiful and built on hope

Keeping Russia in check

Peter Hitchens

A wrong move by a fractious West could trigger all-out war

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Shami Chakrabarti

Lawyer and human rights activist Shami Chakrabarti defends the ECHR and discusses how notions of liberty are inverted to justify oppression

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Rowan Pelling

Lysette Anthony

The actress speaks about the repercussions of outing Harvey Weinstein for repeatedly assaulting her as a young woman

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Andrew Lownie

Earl Mountbatten

Re-evaluating the legacy of one of the last century’s most controversial leaders

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Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Vince Cable

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

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Sally Phillips

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

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Benny Higgins

Banker

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

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Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Sally Phillips

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

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Vince Cable

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

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Andrew Roberts

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Ronni Ancona

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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

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

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

Tessa Hadley

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

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Gothic delights

Elizabeth Sharkey

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

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

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Apocalypse now and then

Anne Billson

STYLE

Dressing for doomsday

Christobel Kent

POETRY

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

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

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Digital art merits attention

Max Lunn

MUSIC

Rock and Rigoletto

Laura Barton

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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

Hanna Pylväinen

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

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