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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…

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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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Unfree speech

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

Sam Fowles

Posh performance

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

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Where hope takes root

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Creative destruction

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

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Postmortems on the corpse of the Conservative party are much like those on real bodies:…

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Sonia Sodha

Breaking the class ceiling

Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony…

Simon Heffer

New protest laws would be extreme

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America’s third man

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

Peter Phelps

Hopeful histories

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Cradle of libertines

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

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

Bacteria Wars

Lee Hudson

Stealth wealth

Róisín Lanigan

A crack in the Millennial dream of equality

Guns and poses

Michael Burleigh

The Ukraine invasion is changing the future of warfare

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

Deadly game

Nicholas Blincoe

Palestinians have been kicked around for decades – could football have something to teach politicians on every side?

Muddle class

Joshua Mcloughlin

Social divides are increasingly ambiguous

Falling short of the Four Freedoms

Boris Starling

How Britain is failing Roosevelt's benchmark for a healthy democracy

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Gavin Esler talks to the UK’s Astronomer Royal. "The solutions for reducing existential threats are within our grasp"

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Rory Stewart

The former MP talks to Peter Phelps and Rowan Pelling about global conflict and the possibility of his return to front-line politics

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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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Lucy Easthope

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Joanna Lumley

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Dan Snow

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Craig Brown

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DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Vince Cable

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

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Benny Higgins

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Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

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England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Katie Brand

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Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

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Comedian, actress and filmmaker

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England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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Katie Brand

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Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

John Lloyd

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Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

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

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Helen Brown

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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

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

Hanna Pylväinen

Whiting Award and Balcones Fiction Prize-winner discusses her strict Lutheran upbringing and her novel The End of Drum-Time

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

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

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Jean Rhys, literary genius and troubled alcoholic

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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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Anne Billson

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Max Lunn

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Get Back

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

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