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Breaking the class ceiling

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

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

Time’s arrow

“Lest we forget” is carved into stone in village squares, town halls and city monuments…

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All that jazz

When we were finally released from lockdown in summer 2021, a hedonistic return to real…

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Caste list

From Modi to cricket to young influencers, caste is no longer a barrier to the top in India

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The politics of colour

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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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

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

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