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Sonia Sodha

The pitfalls of assisted dying

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are introduced to is Isaiah Berlin’s famous distinction between “freedom to” and “freedom from”: an illustration of the fact that giving…

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

Defenestration nation

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

Peter Phelps

Time for a class act

January is San Francisco’s coldest and wettest month, and generally its quietest. That wasn’t the…

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Sam Fowles

Unfree speech

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

Sally Hayden

War reporter

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

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Sonia Sodha

Breaking the class ceiling

Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony…

Simon Heffer

Correcting our Grammar mistake

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

Christopher Hart

Hedge fund

According to the great Dr Oliver Rackham, hedges may be the oldest manmade structures on…

Peter Lawlor

Question time

A little while ago, I was invited to a small private dinner at a well-known…

Michael Janofsky

Long division

Our good friend Kalyan, a gay Indian-American, was so distraught by rising discrimination against Blacks,…

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

Xi the Peacemaker

Michael Burleigh

China’s diplomatic manoeuvring wrong-foots the West

Put AI in its place

Susie Alegre

And that’s a job for human rights experts, not tech billionaires

More than the sum of our parts

Diana Thomas

Our common identity runs deeper than our individuality

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

Roaring Olympics

Boris Starling

One hundred years since the last Paris Games

The emblem of excess

Christobel Kent

Fashion is the essence of capitalism

Keeping Russia in check

Peter Hitchens

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

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Gavin Esler

Sathnam Sanghera

The British writer who says our multicultural empire led to a multicultural society

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Rowan Pelling

Lysette Anthony

The actress speaks about the repercussions of outing Harvey Weinstein for repeatedly assaulting her as a young woman

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Andrew Lownie

The Duke of Windsor

How he actively engaged with Nazi Germany during World War II

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Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Benny Higgins

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DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Ronni Ancona

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Chris van Tulleken

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Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

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Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Chris van Tulleken

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Zandra Rhodes

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Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Mike Figgis

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Ed Vaizey

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Rosie Holt

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Dan Snow

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Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Craig Brown

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Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Sally Phillips

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

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Helen Brown

“Most people, most of the time, are if not collaborators then co-operators with the ruling regime”

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

Francesca Beauman

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

Cathy Newman

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

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

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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

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Apocalypse now and then

Anne Billson

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Dressing for doomsday

Christobel Kent

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Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

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

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

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The art of perturbation

Rachel Campbell Johnston

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Man-made girl bands

Lily Webb

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Fiona Sturges

“Climate change is the most important crisis to face us within the memory of human consciousness”

Ben Okri

The recently knighted novelist, essayist, playwright, poet and Booker Prize winner discusses climate change and his new book Tiger Work with Fiona Sturges

Tessa Hadley

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

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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