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Sonia Sodha

The pitfalls of assisted dying

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are introduced to is Isaiah Berlin’s famous distinction between “freedom to” and “freedom from”: an illustration of the fact that giving…

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…

Sam Fowles

Posh performance

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

Christopher Hart

Hedge fund

According to the great Dr Oliver Rackham, hedges may be the oldest manmade structures on…

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Peter Phelps

Beware Project Fear

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the googly-eyed sage Yoda lectured…

Lucy Moore

All that jazz

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

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Sonia Sodha

Breaking the class ceiling

Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony…

Simon Heffer

Correcting our Grammar mistake

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Passing as upper class

Lots of things from the 1990s are difficult to explain to your teenage children now:…

Sam Fowles

Time’s arrow

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

Sally Hayden

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

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

Falling short of the Four Freedoms

Boris Starling

How Britain is failing Roosevelt's benchmark for a healthy democracy

Put AI in its place

Susie Alegre

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

Toxic in the extreme

Anjana Menon

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

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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

Faux fizz

Rebecca Gibb

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

Defining women

Milli Hill

Hard-won rights are at stake

The risk factor

Robert Jackman

New fiscal regulations don’t address the thin line between scams and foolish investments

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Henry Dimbleby

Our diet is killing us, but politicians and big business don’t want to know, says the food entrepreneur and writer

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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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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)

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Sally Phillips

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

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Benny Higgins

Banker

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

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Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Benny Higgins

Banker

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Sally Phillips

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

Dan Snow

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Ronni Ancona

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John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

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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

Francesca Beauman

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

Tessa Hadley

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

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

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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

Gothic delights

Elizabeth Sharkey

Exploring the history of a genre that first bewitched Elizabeth as a teenage Joy Division fan

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Apocalypse now and then

Anne Billson

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Tribal fashion

Christobel Kent

POETRY

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

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

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The herstory of art

Max Lunn

MUSIC

Raye against the machine

Laura Barton

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Fiona Sturges

“Climate change is the most important crisis to face us within the memory of human consciousness”

Ben Okri

The recently knighted novelist, essayist, playwright, poet and Booker Prize winner discusses climate change and his new book Tiger Work with Fiona Sturges

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

Cathy Newman

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

Bee Wilson

The food writer, journalist, author and charity campaigner for TastEd discusses festive family rituals, celebrating Christmas as a newly single parent and her first recipe book

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