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Sonia Sodha

Breaking the class ceiling

Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony Blair’s “education, education, education” pitch in 1997. They are similarly echoed in Keir Starmer’s vision for Britain: he has repeatedly framed his desire to be…

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…

Wade Graham

The new nomadism

Thrust into the global warming era, there’s much handwringing about how to build, and increasingly…

Mic Wright

Past futures

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

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Peter Phelps

Free for all

When you’re stuck in the swamp of a midlife crisis, there’s generally only two ways…

Sam Fowles

Unfree speech

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

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Sonia Sodha

The road to recovery

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

Simon Heffer

New protest laws would be extreme

Having been bored into a stupor by a supposedly Conservative…

Mic Wright

Hold the blank page

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Michael Janofsky

Long division

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Passing as upper class

Lots of things from the 1990s are difficult to explain to your teenage children now:…

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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

Faux fizz

Rebecca Gibb

The dishonourable history of wine fraud, from fake bubbly to bogus Bordeaux

AI: A wake-up call

Khaled Bazzi

Toxic in the extreme

Anjana Menon

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

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

The canary in my coalmine

Paul Moss

Close encounters of a conspiratorial kind

Faux fizz

Rebecca Gibb

The dishonourable history of wine fraud, from fake bubbly to bogus Bordeaux

Freedumb, you say?

Gabrielle Bauer

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Joanna Grochowicz

Charles Spencer

The writer, historian, podcaster and 9th Earl Spencer Charles Spencer talks about boarding school trauma, class aspirations and the importance of speaking out

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Ian Anderson

The leader of prog rock band Jethro Tull talks about the end of days, faith, fencesitting, Jacob Rees-Mogg and the band’s new album, RökFlöte

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Ben Wilson

Pasquale Paoli

The Corsican guerilla commander who inspired the modern quest for charismatic political leaders

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Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Sally Phillips

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

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Benny Higgins

Banker

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

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John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Vince Cable

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

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Sally Phillips

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

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

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

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

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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

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

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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Gothic delights

Elizabeth Sharkey

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

Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

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

Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

FILM

Gangster wrap

Anne Billson

STYLE

Dressing for utopia

Christobel Kent

POETRY

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

ART

The art of perturbation

Rachel Campbell Johnston

MUSIC

Sucking the marrow out of life

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

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