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Sonia Sodha

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…

Simon Heffer

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…

Nathaniel Tapley

Bonkers bunkers

In December 2023 Ron Hubbard, a security consultant from Texas (not to be confused with…

Michael Janofsky

Fight madness with more madness

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

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Monique Roffey

Only connect

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

Sarah Hall

Natural hazards

The first novel that truly affected me as a young reader was eschatological in nature.…

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Sonia Sodha

Breaking the class ceiling

Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony…

Simon Heffer

An age without rival

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

Mic Wright

High society

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

Michael Janofsky

Defensive positions

When I was a kid and the Cold War was in full bloom, we were…

Nathaniel Tapley

Cradle of libertines

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

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

All my friends are having Botox now

Róisín Lanigan

Calorie counter

Róisín Lanigan

How arbitrary numbers altered my relationship with food

Keeping Russia in check

Peter Hitchens

A wrong move by a fractious West could trigger all-out war

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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

The joy of text

Kate Devlin

Online life brings perennial pleasures

The end is nigh for old politics

Lily Webb

The young are desperate for change

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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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Michael Palin

Talks about his new volume of diaries, his support for the Prison Reform Trust, the loss of his wife Helen, and his determination to keep travelling in his 80s

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Lucy Ward

Catherine the Great

The enlightened empress who inoculated herself to protect her subjects and advance science

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Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Sally Phillips

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

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

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Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Mike Figgis

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Helen Brown

“When you see extremely violent sexual stuff on stage you always need to ask: who’s creating it for who and why?”

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

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

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

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Hymn to Hestia

Natalie Haynes

The forgotten goddess of the hearth

There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and troubled alcoholic

Gothic delights

Elizabeth Sharkey

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

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Apocalypse now and then

Anne Billson

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Dressing for doomsday

Christobel Kent

POETRY

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

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

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

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Digital art merits attention

Max Lunn

MUSIC

Sucking the marrow out of life

Laura Barton

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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

Tessa Hadley

The critically acclaimed novelist discusses her 1950s-set novella The Party with Helen Brown

Francesca Beauman

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

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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