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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…

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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…

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Cradle of libertines

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

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Fight madness with more madness

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Where hope takes root

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

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English pastoral

Guy Shrubsole explores England’s buried tradition of land reform, where less than one percent of…

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The pitfalls of assisted dying

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Correcting our Grammar mistake

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Free for all

When you’re stuck in the swamp of a midlife crisis, there’s generally only two ways…

Sam Fowles

Posh performance

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

Wade Graham

The rewilding Republican

Some years ago, I saw the legendary radical environmentalist Dave Foreman give his famous “howl…

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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 nostalgia myth

Gavin Esler

The UK’s historical illiteracy has led to delusions that create problems for the future

Falling short of the Four Freedoms

Boris Starling

How Britain is failing Roosevelt's benchmark for a healthy democracy

Xi the Peacemaker

Michael Burleigh

China’s diplomatic manoeuvring wrong-foots the West

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Boris Starling

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

All my friends are having Botox now

Róisín Lanigan

Freedumb, you say?

Gabrielle Bauer

The disappearance of Abdullah Öcalan

Toby Green

Imprisoned for a quarter-century, the Kurdish leader has been all but forgotten

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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

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Dominic Cummings

Rowan Pelling talks to Dominic Cummings about a start-up party, Brexit, the covid inquiry, Whitehall and other shit-shows

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Brilliance blighted by poor judgment

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John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

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

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

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Booker Prize-winning author

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

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Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Dan Snow

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Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

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Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Vince Cable

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

Sally Phillips

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

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Craig Brown

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John Lloyd

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Mike Figgis

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Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

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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

Francesca Beauman

The Persephone Books publisher discusses forgotten gems written by women and the imprint’s 150th book

Hanna Pylväinen

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

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

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Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and trouble alcoholic

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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Anne Billson

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Girls will be boys

Christobel Kent

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The art of perturbation

Rachel Campbell Johnston

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Raye against the machine

Laura Barton

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Helen Brown

“Most people, most of the time, are if not collaborators then co-operators with the ruling regime”

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

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

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