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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…

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Free for all

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

Peter Phelps

Hopeful histories

“No news is good news”, the saying goes, but the reverse is also true. Good…

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Keiran Goddard

Falling better

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

Michael Janofsky

America’s third man

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

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Sonia Sodha

The road to recovery

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

Simon Heffer

Why Labour has to be conservative

Here’s a paradox for you: Britain is a conservative country…

Sam Fowles

Time’s arrow

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

Guy Shrubsole

English pastoral

Guy Shrubsole explores England’s buried tradition of land reform, where less than one percent of…

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

Virtual appetites

Sanjana Modha

Hits from a fusion food influencer

Keeping Russia in check

Peter Hitchens

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

Roaring Olympics

Boris Starling

One hundred years since the last Paris Games

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

The Place of No Return

Nick Hunt

The human-caused devastation of the Aral Sea landscape has given birth to the strangest myths

A ban on thinking

Mic Wright

Even contemplating protest now risks arrest

Birth room battles

Milli Hill

Women are not being properly consulted about their wishes during childbirth

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Sathnam Sanghera

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

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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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Earl Mountbatten

Re-evaluating the legacy of one of the last century’s most controversial leaders

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Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

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

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

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Sally Phillips

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

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Ronni Ancona

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Rosie Holt

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Jeremy Paxman

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Vince Cable

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

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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

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

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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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

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

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Gangster wrap

Anne Billson

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Dressing for doomsday

Christobel Kent

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I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

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The art of perturbation

Rachel Campbell Johnston

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Get Back

Laura Barton

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Helen Brown

This is a book that faces the awful possibility of a wind’s death amid climate collapse

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

Cathy Newman

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

Bee Wilson

The food writer, journalist, author and charity campaigner for TastEd discusses festive family rituals, celebrating Christmas as a newly single parent and her first recipe book

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