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King taking centre stage amid British political drama captures US attention

Sir Keir Starmer’s political woes are under scrutiny stateside, helped in part by the theatre of British tradition and royalty. The King taking centre stage amid Britain’s political drama with…

Massive policing operation as two protests and FA Cup final coincide in London

Starmer hopes King’s Speech’s ‘radical agenda’ will help save his job

Foreign investors buying UK gilts risks volatility, says Bank rate-setter

‘Bellissima’: Kate receives warm welcome in Italy on return to foreign tours

Holyrood ‘dull’ and requires livening up, says MSP running for Presiding Officer

Senior judge challenges Stormont to agree support scheme for Troubles bereaved

£139 million paid out in Troubles disablement pension scheme

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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…

Michael Janofsky

Defensive positions

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

Michael Janofsky

Fight madness with more madness

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

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Peter Phelps

Time for a class act

January is San Francisco’s coldest and wettest month, and generally its quietest. That wasn’t the…

Christopher Hart

Hedge fund

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

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Sonia Sodha

The road to recovery

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

Simon Heffer

An age without rival

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Bonkers bunkers

In December 2023 Ron Hubbard, a security consultant from Texas (not to be confused with…

Wade Graham

The new nomadism

Thrust into the global warming era, there’s much handwringing about how to build, and increasingly…

Lucy Moore

All that jazz

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

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

Calorie counter

Róisín Lanigan

How arbitrary numbers altered my relationship with food

The colder war

Chris Lincoln-Jones

AI weaponry has already made sci-fi a reality, so the big question is: can we control the machines?

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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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

Stealth wealth

Róisín Lanigan

A crack in the Millennial dream of equality

Calorie counter

Róisín Lanigan

How arbitrary numbers altered my relationship with food

Reviled swimmers

Claudia Cockerell

Restricted access to clean waters leads to legal action

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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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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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Ben Wilson

Pasquale Paoli

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

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Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

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Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Vince Cable

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

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Helen Brown

This is a book that faces the awful possibility of a wind’s death amid climate collapse

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

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

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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

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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Apocalypse now and then

Anne Billson

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Anything goes

Christobel Kent

POETRY

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

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

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

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Digital art merits attention

Max Lunn

MUSIC

Prisoner with a key

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

Hanna Pylväinen

Whiting Award and Balcones Fiction Prize-winner discusses her strict Lutheran upbringing and her novel The End of Drum-Time

Francesca Beauman

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

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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