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The pitfalls of assisted dying

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are introduced to is Isaiah Berlin’s famous distinction between “freedom to” and “freedom from”: an illustration of the fact that giving…

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…

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Posh performance

I recently wrote a column for The National that provoked some, let’s say, passionate reactions. Two…

Peter Lawlor

History’s false promises

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

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Where hope takes root

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

Christopher Hart

Hedge fund

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

Wade Graham

The new nomadism

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

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Sonia Sodha

The pitfalls of assisted dying

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are…

Simon Heffer

Correcting our Grammar mistake

During the Blair years, when recalcitrant Conservatives longed for a…

Nathaniel Tapley

Bonkers bunkers

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Cradle of libertines

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

Keiran Goddard

Falling better

The only thing slower than writing books, it seems, is publishing them. The mechanisms of…

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

Fantastic fungi

Nick Hunt

Why we should lose our fear of the ancient art of foraging

Trans positive

Róisín Lanigan

We’re living in Terf times

Covet Coventry

Lily Webb

Bleak, beautiful and built on hope

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

From crusader crosses at marches to political speeches quoting the Old Testament, a strident form of Christian nationalism is crossing the Atlantic, threatening Britain's traditional separation of church and state

The New Crusades

Boris Starling

From crusader crosses at marches to political speeches quoting the Old Testament, a strident form of Christian nationalism is crossing the Atlantic, threatening Britain's traditional separation of church and state

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Róisín Lanigan

How arbitrary numbers altered my relationship with food

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Shami Chakrabarti

Lawyer and human rights activist Shami Chakrabarti defends the ECHR and discusses how notions of liberty are inverted to justify oppression

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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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Andrew Lownie

Earl Mountbatten

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

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Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Sally Phillips

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

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Zandra Rhodes

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Vince Cable

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

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Dan Snow

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Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Andrew Roberts

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Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Phil Hammond

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Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Doon Mackichan

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Rosie Holt

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Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Zandra Rhodes

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Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Daniel Howell

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John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Jeremy Paxman

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Helen Brown

“Mum set up the company just after her fifth child, my younger brother, left home”

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

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

Cathy Newman

Channel 4’s first female news anchor discusses trailblazing women, internet trolls, sexual assault and her new book The Ladder

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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

Gothic delights

Elizabeth Sharkey

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

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Gangster wrap

Anne Billson

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Girls will be boys

Christobel Kent

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Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

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Art is not a luxury

Rachel Campbell Johnston

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Rock and Rigoletto

Laura Barton

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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

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

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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