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Sonia Sodha

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…

Simon Heffer

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…

Sam Fowles

Unfree speech

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

Sally Hayden

War reporter

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

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Mic Wright

High society

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

Mic Wright

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Sonia Sodha

Breaking the class ceiling

Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony…

Simon Heffer

Why Labour has to be conservative

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Passing as upper class

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

Michael Janofsky

America’s third man

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

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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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

Baby Doomers

Róisín Lanigan

Falling birth rates are a sign of existential angst

Squeezed dry

Claudia Cockerell

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

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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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

Deadly game

Nicholas Blincoe

Palestinians have been kicked around for decades – could football have something to teach politicians on every side?

Put AI in its place

Susie Alegre

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

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TCE The Interview The Interview – Front Page

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Gavin Esler

Henry Dimbleby

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

In Conversation In Conversation – Front Page

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Rowan Pelling

Lysette Anthony

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

Reputations Reputations – Front Page

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Andrew Lownie

Earl Mountbatten

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

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Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Benny Higgins

Banker

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

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Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Benny Higgins

Banker

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

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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

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

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

Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

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Fevered imagination

Anne Billson

STYLE

Dressing for doomsday

Christobel Kent

POETRY

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

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

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

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Art in an emergency

Max Lunn

MUSIC

Rock and Rigoletto

Laura Barton

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Helen Brown

“All I had ever wanted to do was write a novel. When I held the first copy, aged 42, I cried”

Emma Flint

The crime author discusses her new book Other Women

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

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

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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