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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…

Nathaniel Tapley

Passing as upper class

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

Michael Janofsky

Long division

Our good friend Kalyan, a gay Indian-American, was so distraught by rising discrimination against Blacks,…

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Mic Wright

Hold the blank page

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Michael Janofsky

Fight madness with more madness

Most of my friends and I live in a bubble (Los Angeles) within a bubble…

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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…

Michael Janofsky

Roar deal

A century ago, America was ablaze in progressive change: Jazz. Flappers. Shorter skirts. Speakeasies. The…

Lucy Moore

All that jazz

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

Sam Fowles

Unfree speech

Free speech is “under threat”, or so we are continually told. Under threat from whom?…

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

Looking down your nose at “common” behaviour can create a constructive social dynamic

Democracy inaction

Gavin Esler

From Russia to Rwanda, a year of record global voting masks a deepening crisis for democratic freedom

#MeToo returns

Charlotte Proudman

New high-profile cases expose deep-rooted misogyny

The nostalgia myth

Gavin Esler

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

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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

Democracy inaction

Gavin Esler

From Russia to Rwanda, a year of record global voting masks a deepening crisis for democratic freedom

A ban on thinking

Mic Wright

Even contemplating protest now risks arrest

A ban on thinking

Mic Wright

Even contemplating protest now risks arrest

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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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Terence Blacker

Chuck Berry

The revolutionary musician who single-handedly transformed rock 'n' roll

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John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Sally Phillips

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

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

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Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Vince Cable

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

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

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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

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

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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Gothic delights

Elizabeth Sharkey

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

Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

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

There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and troubled alcoholic

FILM

Dressing for utopia

Christobel Kent

POETRY

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

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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Rock and Rigoletto

Laura Barton

CULTURE

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Helen Brown

“Mum set up the company just after her fifth child, my younger brother, left home”

Francesca Beauman

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

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