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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

New protest laws would be extreme

Having been bored into a stupor by a supposedly Conservative government’s serial failure to be conservative, something Rishi Sunak said recently suddenly had a voice inside me crying, “Whoa!”. His…

Keiran Goddard

Falling better

The only thing slower than writing books, it seems, is publishing them. The mechanisms of…

Mic Wright

High society

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

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Peter Lawlor

Rent in two

In this class-themed issue I want to touch on an important social distinction in the…

Peter Lawlor

Question time

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

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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…

Monique Roffey

Only connect

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Defenestration nation

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

Peter Phelps

Beware Project Fear

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the googly-eyed sage Yoda lectured…

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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

I post therefore I am

Róisín Lanigan

Uncovering the online persona

Dollar fever

Frances Coppola

Competing currencies won’t unlock the world from the shackles of US financial hegemony

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

Women have it good

Zoe Strimpel

Capitalism works for the sisterhood

Toxic in the extreme

Anjana Menon

India’s women still face a widespread culture of lethal misogyny

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Lipika Pelham

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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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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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

Sally Phillips

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

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Vince Cable

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

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

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John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Sally Phillips

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

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Vince Cable

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

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

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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

Tessa Hadley

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

Cathy Newman

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

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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Hymn to Hestia

Natalie Haynes

The forgotten goddess of the hearth

Gothic delights

Elizabeth Sharkey

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

Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

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Dressing for dinner

Christobel Kent

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

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

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Prisoner with a key

Laura Barton

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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

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

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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