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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

New protest laws would be extreme

Having been bored into a stupor by a supposedly Conservative government’s serial failure to be conservative, something Rishi Sunak said recently suddenly had a voice inside me crying, “Whoa!”. His…

Michael Janofsky

Roar deal

A century ago, America was ablaze in progressive change: Jazz. Flappers. Shorter skirts. Speakeasies. The…

Wade Graham

The rewilding Republican

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

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Peter Phelps

Time for a class act

January is San Francisco’s coldest and wettest month, and generally its quietest. That wasn’t the…

Nathaniel Tapley

Cradle of libertines

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

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Sonia Sodha

Breaking the class ceiling

Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony…

Simon Heffer

Why Labour has to be conservative

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

Mic Wright

High society

In 1989, Richard Hoggart wrote in his introduction to George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan…

Guy Shrubsole

English pastoral

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

Wade Graham

The new nomadism

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

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

Flying the flag

Gavin Esler

The rise of Britain's new patriotism: loud, flag-obsessed and convinced the nation is falling apart

Freedumb, you say?

Gabrielle Bauer

Xi the Peacemaker

Michael Burleigh

China’s diplomatic manoeuvring wrong-foots the West

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

Don’t look now

Susie Alegre

We’re being monitored at home, at work and on our streets

#MeToo returns

Charlotte Proudman

New high-profile cases expose deep-rooted misogyny

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Gavin Esler

Hein de Haas

Sociologist and myth-buster Hein de Haas explains how politicians’ pandering to prejudice has backfired

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Rowan Pelling

Ian Anderson

The leader of prog rock band Jethro Tull talks about the end of days, faith, fencesitting, Jacob Rees-Mogg and the band’s new album, RökFlöte

Reputations Reputations – Front Page

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Mic Wright

Caroline Calloway

The headline-hitting American social climber who found fame via a “faked” Cambridge application

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Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Benny Higgins

Banker

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Sally Phillips

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

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

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Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Benny Higgins

Banker

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Phil Hammond

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Helen Brown

“The vitriol online can really knock your confidence”

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

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

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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

Gothic delights

Elizabeth Sharkey

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

There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and troubled alcoholic

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Poverty porn

Anne Billson

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Girls will be boys

Christobel Kent

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Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

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

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

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The art of perturbation

Rachel Campbell Johnston

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Rock and Rigoletto

Laura Barton

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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

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

Bee Wilson

The food writer, journalist, author and charity campaigner for TastEd discusses festive family rituals, celebrating Christmas as a newly single parent and her first recipe book

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