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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

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…

Mic Wright

High society

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

Sally Hayden

War reporter

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

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

Time’s arrow

“Lest we forget” is carved into stone in village squares, town halls and city monuments…

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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…

Nathaniel Tapley

Cradle of libertines

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Bonkers bunkers

In December 2023 Ron Hubbard, a security consultant from Texas (not to be confused with…

Lucy Moore

All that jazz

When we were finally released from lockdown in summer 2021, a hedonistic return to real…

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

Guns and poses

Michael Burleigh

The Ukraine invasion is changing the future of warfare

Xi the Peacemaker

Michael Burleigh

China’s diplomatic manoeuvring wrong-foots the West

Beside the sea

Madeleine Bunting

English seaside resorts evoke both deep nostalgia and class divisions

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

Caste list

Anjana Menon

From Modi to cricket to young influencers, caste is no longer a barrier to the top in India

The young ones

Lily Webb

The new generation of men are emotionally literate and comfortable in their skin

Fake farm story

Joy Lo Dico

Shouldn’t we be doing more for British farmers?

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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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Lysette Anthony

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

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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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Benny Higgins

Banker

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Vince Cable

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

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

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Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Vince Cable

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

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Benny Higgins

Banker

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Katie Brand

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Andrew Roberts

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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

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

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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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

Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

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

Hymn to Hestia

Natalie Haynes

The forgotten goddess of the hearth

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Poverty porn

Anne Billson

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Give cardis the slip

Christobel Kent

POETRY

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

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

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The herstory of art

Max Lunn

MUSIC

Prisoner with a key

Laura Barton

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Helen Brown

“Sex is the place where the animal body erupts into the life of the thinking mind”

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