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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

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…

Mic Wright

Past futures

When we reach for past visions of the future to measure against our reality, we…

Sam Fowles

Posh performance

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

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Cradle of libertines

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

Peter Phelps

Hopeful histories

“No news is good news”, the saying goes, but the reverse is also true. Good…

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Sonia Sodha

The pitfalls of assisted dying

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are…

Simon Heffer

Why Labour has to be conservative

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

Peter Lawlor

Creative destruction

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

Sam Fowles

Time’s arrow

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

Michael Janofsky

America’s third man

With all the focus on Joe Biden-Donald Trump redux, it’s easy to ignore more than…

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

Beside the sea

Madeleine Bunting

English seaside resorts evoke both deep nostalgia and class divisions

Fierce courage

Rick Stroud

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

Silence of the lambs

Fred Skulthorp

The Left’s embrace of the covid consensus has badly impacted the world’s poor

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

Stealth wealth

Róisín Lanigan

A crack in the Millennial dream of equality

Muddle class

Joshua Mcloughlin

Social divides are increasingly ambiguous

The wheel turns

Nick Hunt

Why doomsday scenarios appeal to our linear concept of time

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Shami Chakrabarti

Lawyer and human rights activist Shami Chakrabarti defends the ECHR and discusses how notions of liberty are inverted to justify oppression

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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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Mic Wright

Caroline Calloway

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

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Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Vince Cable

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

Benny Higgins

Banker

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Sally Phillips

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

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

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Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Benny Higgins

Banker

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Sally Phillips

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

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

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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

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

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

Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

Shakespeare’s Richard II was pure treason, so how did he get away with it? asks the author

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Playing through the nose

Anne Billson

STYLE

Dressing for utopia

Christobel Kent

POETRY

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

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

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New images, new perceptions

Max Lunn

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Get Back

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

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

Cathy Newman

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

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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