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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…

Peter Phelps

Hopeful histories

“No news is good news”, the saying goes, but the reverse is also true. Good…

Sam Fowles

Unfree speech

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

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Michael Janofsky

America’s third man

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

Sarah Hall

Natural hazards

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

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Sonia Sodha

The pitfalls of assisted dying

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are…

Simon Heffer

An age without rival

It wasn’t long before Hallowe’en that I noted many of…

Peter Lawlor

History’s false promises

In 2015, when interviewing Jonathan Sumption, Matt Stadlen asked a deceptively simple question: “Why does…

Sally Hayden

War reporter

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

Peter Lawlor

Question time

A little while ago, I was invited to a small private dinner at a well-known…

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

Squeezed dry

Claudia Cockerell

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

The funk of flunk

Cosmo Landesman

There’s an art to failing gracefully

Birth room battles

Milli Hill

Women are not being properly consulted about their wishes during childbirth

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

Know thy past

Gillian Mosely

Current shocking violence in Israel and Gaza has its roots in ages of conflict and injustice

Les Temps Modernes

Antony Beevor

The Liberation of Paris in August 1944 led to an era of philosophical, political and sexual ferment

Falling short of the Four Freedoms

Boris Starling

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

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Ben Delo

Entrepreneur, philanthropist and co-founder of BitMEX

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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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Pasquale Paoli

The Corsican guerilla commander who inspired the modern quest for charismatic political leaders

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Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Sally Phillips

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

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

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Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Vince Cable

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

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Sally Phillips

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

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

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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

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

Francesca Beauman

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

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

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Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

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Tina Gharavi

Tina Gharavi’s full response to the controversy surrounding Queen Cleopatra, a Netflix series about the identity of the legendary last pharaoh

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Elizabeth Sharkey

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

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Dressing for dinner

Christobel Kent

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Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

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Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

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Laura Barton

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Helen Brown

“The current generation don’t seem to be using their power for much more than shooting penis-shaped rockets into outer space”

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