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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

Why Labour has to be conservative

Here’s a paradox for you: Britain is a conservative country that hates the Conservative party. As our American cousins vulgarly say: “Do the math.” On 4 July 24 per cent…

Peter Lawlor

Creative destruction

According to a quip once made by Peter Ustinov, “Just before the world blows itself…

Rowan Pelling

Letter from the editor

It often feels there are only three topics worth discussing: sex, death and freedom. And…

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Michael Janofsky

Defensive positions

When I was a kid and the Cold War was in full bloom, we were…

Sam Fowles

Might is not right

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

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Sonia Sodha

The road to recovery

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

Simon Heffer

An age without rival

It wasn’t long before Hallowe’en that I noted many of…

Sally Hayden

War reporter

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

Michael Janofsky

America’s third man

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

Monique Roffey

Only connect

Last month I went to Susheila Nasta’s 70th birthday party in Greenwich, south-east London. I’d…

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

One of us

Nicola Rollock

Social class and race are not mutually exclusive

The young ones

Lily Webb

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

A ban on thinking

Mic Wright

Even contemplating protest now risks arrest

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

The funk of flunk

Cosmo Landesman

There’s an art to failing gracefully

From crusader crosses at marches to political speeches quoting the Old Testament, a strident form of Christian nationalism is crossing the Atlantic, threatening Britain's traditional separation of church and state

The nostalgia myth

Gavin Esler

The UK’s historical illiteracy has led to delusions that create problems for the future

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Sathnam Sanghera

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

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Rowan Pelling

Ian Anderson

The leader of prog rock band Jethro Tull talks about the end of days, faith, fencesitting, Jacob Rees-Mogg and the band’s new album, RökFlöte

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Ben Wilson

Pasquale Paoli

The Corsican guerilla commander who inspired the modern quest for charismatic political leaders

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Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Sally Phillips

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

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Benny Higgins

Banker

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Vince Cable

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

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

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DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Sally Phillips

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

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Dan Snow

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Phil Hammond

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Helen Brown

“The vitriol online can really knock your confidence”

Cathy Newman

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

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

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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Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

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

There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and trouble alcoholic

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Fevered imagination

Anne Billson

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Tribal fashion

Christobel Kent

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Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

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

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

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The art of perturbation

Rachel Campbell Johnston

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Hop aboard the turntable

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