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Breaking the class ceiling

Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony Blair’s “education, education, education” pitch in 1997. They are similarly echoed in Keir Starmer’s vision for Britain: he has repeatedly framed his desire to be…

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Correcting our Grammar mistake

During the Blair years, when recalcitrant Conservatives longed for a pledge to open new grammar schools, no class warrior threw himself into the battle against selective education with such ferocity…

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America’s third man

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

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Natural hazards

The first novel that truly affected me as a young reader was eschatological in nature.…

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Where hope takes root

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Passing as upper class

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

Michael Janofsky

Defensive positions

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

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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…

Nathaniel Tapley

Cradle of libertines

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

Peter Phelps

Free for all

When you’re stuck in the swamp of a midlife crisis, there’s generally only two ways…

Rowan Pelling

Letter from the editor

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

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Philip Hensher

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

Falling short of the Four Freedoms

Boris Starling

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

Covet Coventry

Lily Webb

Bleak, beautiful and built on hope

All my friends are having Botox now

Róisín Lanigan

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

Squeezed dry

Claudia Cockerell

The water companies have drained the coffers as well as the rivers

Baby Doomers

Róisín Lanigan

Falling birth rates are a sign of existential angst

AI makes you stupid

Susie Alegre

It's shrinking your brain – but don't panic, because swearing can reboot your cognitive creativity

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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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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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Lucy Ward

Catherine the Great

The enlightened empress who inoculated herself to protect her subjects and advance science

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Member of the House of Lords

Andrew Roberts

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Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Sally Phillips

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

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Benny Higgins

Banker

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

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Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Sally Phillips

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

Benny Higgins

Banker

Andrew Roberts

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Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

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actress, comedian, author

Daniel Howell

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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

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

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

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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There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and trouble alcoholic

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

Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

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

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Fevered imagination

Anne Billson

STYLE

Give cardis the slip

Christobel Kent

POETRY

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

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

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The art of perturbation

Rachel Campbell Johnston

MUSIC

Rock and Rigoletto

Laura Barton

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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

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