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Breaking the class ceiling

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Correcting our Grammar mistake

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Might is not right

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Bonkers bunkers

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Where hope takes root

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Defenestration nation

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Time’s arrow

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Sonia Sodha

The road to recovery

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

Simon Heffer

Why Labour has to be conservative

Here’s a paradox for you: Britain is a conservative country…

Christopher Hart

Hedge fund

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

Mic Wright

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Nathaniel Tapley

Passing as upper class

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

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

Women have it good

Zoe Strimpel

Capitalism works for the sisterhood

The emblem of excess

Christobel Kent

Fashion is the essence of capitalism

The many and the few

Amir Amirani

Reflecting on the twentieth anniversary of the Iraq War

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Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

Trans positive

Róisín Lanigan

We’re living in Terf times

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Joshua Mcloughlin

Social divides are increasingly ambiguous

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Lysette Anthony

The actress speaks about the repercussions of outing Harvey Weinstein for repeatedly assaulting her as a young woman

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Earl Mountbatten

Re-evaluating the legacy of one of the last century’s most controversial leaders

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Helen Brown

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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

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

Francesca Beauman

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

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Pauline F Kiernan

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

Hymn to Hestia

Natalie Haynes

The forgotten goddess of the hearth

Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

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Playing through the nose

Anne Billson

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Dressing for dinner

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Max Lunn

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Sucking the marrow out of life

Laura Barton

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Helen Brown

“People ask, is it prose or poetry? Put it on whichever shelf you want, I don’t fucking care!”

Max Porter

Award-winning British novelist, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers discusses his new book Shy

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