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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…

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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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Creative destruction

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

Sam Fowles

Unfree speech

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

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The road to recovery

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Correcting our Grammar mistake

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America’s third man

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Boris Starling

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

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Gavin Esler

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

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Rick Stroud

How a Belgian princess, a waitress and a British nurse risked their lives during WWI

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Fred Skulthorp

Green measures are stirring up populist dissent

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Lucy Moore

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

Fake farm story

Joy Lo Dico

Shouldn’t we be doing more for British farmers?

Know thy past

Gillian Mosely

Current shocking violence in Israel and Gaza has its roots in ages of conflict and injustice

Dollar fever

Frances Coppola

Competing currencies won’t unlock the world from the shackles of US financial hegemony

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Zahra Joya

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

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Dominic Cummings

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

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Mary Beard

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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

Sarah Hall

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Cathy Newman

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

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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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Helen Brown

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Cathy Newman

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Tessa Hadley

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Hanna Pylväinen

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Ruth Ivo

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