Perspective Media | Read the world differently

LATEST HEADLINES

Angela Rayner stripped of Unite union membership over Birmingham bins dispute

Unite has also voted to ‘re-examine its relationship with Labour’, in a sign of a growing divide between the union and the Labour Party. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has been…

‘Extreme’ wildfire warning in place for much of Scotland as heatwave hits

Wimbledon tells fans to take time out of sun after Centre Court emergencies

National Trust to cut 550 staff in bid to slash wage bill following tax hikes

‘Shameful’ that bonfire with migrant effigies was allowed to go ahead

Woman pleads not guilty to murder of Joanne Penney

Flutter takes 100% ownership of US firm FanDuel after £1.3bn deal

Hosepipe ban announced for Kent and Sussex amid ‘record water demand’

MORE NEWS

COMMENT

VIEW ALL

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…

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…

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Sally Hayden

War reporter

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

Sarah Hall

Natural hazards

The first novel that truly affected me as a young reader was eschatological in nature.…

GET THE PERSPECTIVE NEWSLETTER

For some of the world’s best independent writing on the stories and ideas shaping our world

COMMENT

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…

Peter Lawlor

History’s false promises

In 2015, when interviewing Jonathan Sumption, Matt Stadlen asked a deceptively simple question: “Why does…

Nathaniel Tapley

Bonkers bunkers

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

Sam Fowles

Might is not right

The date of 26 January 2024 may become a watershed moment in the history of…

VIEW ALL

Perspectives

VIEW ALL

All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

Don’t look now

Susie Alegre

We’re being monitored at home, at work and on our streets

The joy of text

Kate Devlin

Online life brings perennial pleasures

Defining women

Milli Hill

Hard-won rights are at stake

Perspectives

The end of days

Boris Starling

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

Bacteria Wars

Lee Hudson

Squeezed dry

Claudia Cockerell

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

VIEW ALL

PEOPLE

VIEW ALL

TCE The Interview The Interview - Front Page

BY

Sam Fowles

Shami Chakrabarti

Lawyer and human rights activist Shami Chakrabarti defends the ECHR and discusses how notions of liberty are inverted to justify oppression

In Conversation In Conversation - Front Page TCE

BY

Rowan Pelling

Dominic Cummings

Rowan Pelling talks to Dominic Cummings about a start-up party, Brexit, the covid inquiry, Whitehall and other shit-shows

Reputations Reputations - Front Page

BY

Andrew Lownie

Earl Mountbatten

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

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE - Q&As

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Sally Phillips

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

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE – Q&As

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Sally Phillips

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

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Vince Cable

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

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

VIEW ALL

CULTURE

MORE AUTHOR INTERVIEWS

Author Interview - Front Page TCE The author Interview

by

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

Francesca Beauman

The Persephone Books publisher discusses forgotten gems written by women and the imprint’s 150th book

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

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

FEATURES

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

Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

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

FILM

Poverty porn

Anne Billson

STYLE

Anything goes

Christobel Kent

POETRY

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

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

ART

The wisdom of native art

Max Lunn

MUSIC

Rock and Rigoletto

Laura Barton

CULTURE

The author Interview

by

Helen Brown

“While there was no shortage of women writers getting published, their novels weren’t being honoured like the ones men were writing”

Kate Mosse

Kate Mosse discusses the new women’s prize for non-fiction and her latest novel The Ghost Ship with Helen Brown

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