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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…

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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…

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Posh performance

I recently wrote a column for The National that provoked some, let’s say, passionate reactions. Two…

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Creative destruction

According to a quip once made by Peter Ustinov, “Just before the world blows itself…

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Where hope takes root

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

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War reporter

Cambridge In early September I attended the British Red Cross summer school in international humanitarian…

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Defenestration nation

Postmortems on the corpse of the Conservative party are much like those on real bodies:…

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The pitfalls of assisted dying

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An age without rival

It wasn’t long before Hallowe’en that I noted many of…

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Fight madness with more madness

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

Monique Roffey

Only connect

Last month I went to Susheila Nasta’s 70th birthday party in Greenwich, south-east London. I’d…

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Might is not right

The date of 26 January 2024 may become a watershed moment in the history of…

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Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

Beside the sea

Madeleine Bunting

English seaside resorts evoke both deep nostalgia and class divisions

Spun sugar

Kate Devlin

Childhood books feed us Christmas dreams by the spoonful

Muddle class

Joshua Mcloughlin

Social divides are increasingly ambiguous

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

Baby Doomers

Róisín Lanigan

Falling birth rates are a sign of existential angst

A side dish of bugs, please

Taras Grescoe

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

Reviled swimmers

Claudia Cockerell

Restricted access to clean waters leads to legal action

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

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Dan Snow

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Sally Phillips

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

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Daniel Howell

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Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Joanna Lumley

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Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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Rosie Holt

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DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

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Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Vince Cable

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

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Andrew Roberts

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Chris van Tulleken

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Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Vince Cable

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

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Craig Brown

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Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Jeremy Paxman

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Lynn Barber

author and journalist

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Helen Brown

“It is a religion that asks women to have many children and really sacrifice their bodies”

Hanna Pylväinen

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

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

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

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Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

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

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Elizabeth Sharkey

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

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Anne Billson

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Dressing for utopia

Christobel Kent

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Max Lunn

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Laura Barton

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Helen Brown

This is a book that faces the awful possibility of a wind’s death amid climate collapse

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

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