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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…

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I recently wrote a column for The National that provoked some, let’s say, passionate reactions. Two…

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

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Tessa Hadley

The critically acclaimed novelist discusses her 1950s-set novella The Party, why female writers dread sex scenes and male writers don't, and starting her career at 46

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The Whiting Award and Balcones Fiction Prize-winner discusses her novel The End of Drum-Time, the Lutheran church she left at 21 and growing up with seven siblings and thirteen aunts and uncles

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

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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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How a gap year full of travel and adventure became a “gap life” boundaried only by possibility and curiosity

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