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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

Correcting our Grammar mistake

During the Blair years, when recalcitrant Conservatives longed for a pledge to open new grammar schools, no class warrior threw himself into the battle against selective education with such ferocity…

Sarah Hall

Natural hazards

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

Sam Fowles

Might is not right

The date of 26 January 2024 may become a watershed moment in the history of…

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Michael Janofsky

America’s third man

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Defenestration nation

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

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Sonia Sodha

The road to recovery

First in 1945, then 1997 and now 2024. The three…

Simon Heffer

Correcting our Grammar mistake

During the Blair years, when recalcitrant Conservatives longed for a…

Michael Janofsky

Defensive positions

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

Mic Wright

High society

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

Rowan Pelling

Letter from the editor

It often feels there are only three topics worth discussing: sex, death and freedom. And…

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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

Reviled swimmers

Claudia Cockerell

Restricted access to clean waters leads to legal action

AI: A wake-up call

Khaled Bazzi

I post therefore I am

Róisín Lanigan

Uncovering the online persona

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

The canary in my coalmine

Paul Moss

Close encounters of a conspiratorial kind

All my friends are having Botox now

Róisín Lanigan

Beside the sea

Madeleine Bunting

English seaside resorts evoke both deep nostalgia and class divisions

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Henry Dimbleby

Our diet is killing us, but politicians and big business don’t want to know, says the food entrepreneur and writer

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Joanna Grochowicz

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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Simon Heffer

Chips Channon

Brilliance blighted by poor judgment

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Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Benny Higgins

Banker

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Sally Phillips

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

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

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Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Benny Higgins

Banker

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Mike Figgis

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Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

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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

Francesca Beauman

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

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

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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Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

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

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

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Apocalypse now and then

Anne Billson

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Dressing for doomsday

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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The art of perturbation

Rachel Campbell Johnston

MUSIC

Man-made girl bands

Lily Webb

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Helen Brown

“The current generation don’t seem to be using their power for much more than shooting penis-shaped rockets into outer space”

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