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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

Correcting our Grammar mistake

During the Blair years, when recalcitrant Conservatives longed for a pledge to open new grammar schools, no class warrior threw himself into the battle against selective education with such ferocity…

Wade Graham

The rewilding Republican

Some years ago, I saw the legendary radical environmentalist Dave Foreman give his famous “howl…

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 Phelps

Hopeful histories

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Defenestration nation

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

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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…

Mic Wright

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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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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

Toxic in the extreme

Anjana Menon

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

The 15-minute protesters

Fred Skulthorp

Green measures are stirring up populist dissent

Squeezed dry

Claudia Cockerell

The water companies have drained the coffers as well as the rivers

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

The silent struggle

Tomiwa Owolade

Disadvantages in education can be more nuanced than just race and gender

Baby Doomers

Róisín Lanigan

Falling birth rates are a sign of existential angst

Deadly game

Nicholas Blincoe

Palestinians have been kicked around for decades – could football have something to teach politicians on every side?

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Martin Rees

Gavin Esler talks to the UK’s Astronomer Royal. "The solutions for reducing existential threats are within our grasp"

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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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Andrew Lownie

The Duke of Windsor

How he actively engaged with Nazi Germany during World War II

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Vince Cable

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

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Sally Phillips

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

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

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Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Vince Cable

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

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

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

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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

Cathy Newman

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

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

Tessa Hadley

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

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There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and trouble alcoholic

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

FILM

Dressing for utopia

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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Sucking the marrow out of life

Laura Barton

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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

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