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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

New protest laws would be extreme

Having been bored into a stupor by a supposedly Conservative government’s serial failure to be conservative, something Rishi Sunak said recently suddenly had a voice inside me crying, “Whoa!”. His…

Mic Wright

High society

In 1989, Richard Hoggart wrote in his introduction to George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan…

Sam Fowles

Time’s arrow

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

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Cradle of libertines

England likes to think of itself as “the cradle of liberty”. True, if you think…

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Sonia Sodha

The pitfalls of assisted dying

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are…

Simon Heffer

Correcting our Grammar mistake

During the Blair years, when recalcitrant Conservatives longed for a…

Lucy Moore

All that jazz

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

Peter Phelps

Time for a class act

January is San Francisco’s coldest and wettest month, and generally its quietest. That wasn’t the…

Peter Lawlor

Rent in two

In this class-themed issue I want to touch on an important social distinction in the…

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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

Put AI in its place

Susie Alegre

And that’s a job for human rights experts, not tech billionaires

Fake farm story

Joy Lo Dico

Shouldn’t we be doing more for British farmers?

Faux fizz

Rebecca Gibb

The dishonourable history of wine fraud, from fake bubbly to bogus Bordeaux

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

Flying the flag

Gavin Esler

The rise of Britain's new patriotism: loud, flag-obsessed and convinced the nation is falling apart

Keeping Russia in check

Peter Hitchens

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

Flying the flag

Gavin Esler

The rise of Britain's new patriotism: loud, flag-obsessed and convinced the nation is falling apart

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Ben Delo

Entrepreneur, philanthropist and co-founder of BitMEX

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Joanna Grochowicz

Michael Palin

Talks about his new volume of diaries, his support for the Prison Reform Trust, the loss of his wife Helen, and his determination to keep travelling in his 80s

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Simon Heffer

Chips Channon

Brilliance blighted by poor judgment

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Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Sally Phillips

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

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

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

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Vince Cable

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

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

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Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Sally Phillips

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

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

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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

Cathy Newman

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

Francesca Beauman

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

Hanna Pylväinen

Whiting Award and Balcones Fiction Prize-winner discusses her strict Lutheran upbringing and her novel The End of Drum-Time

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Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

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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Dressing for dinner

Christobel Kent

POETRY

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

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

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

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Hop aboard the turntable

Laura Barton

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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

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

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

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