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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

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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Defensive positions

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

Christopher Hart

Hedge fund

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

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Where hope takes root

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

Rowan Pelling

Letter from the editor

It often feels there are only three topics worth discussing: sex, death and freedom. And…

Peter Lawlor

Creative destruction

According to a quip once made by Peter Ustinov, “Just before the world blows itself…

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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…

Sam Fowles

Unfree speech

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

Kate Devlin

You’re on camera

There’s a quotation by American historian Timothy Snyder currently circulating on social media. It comes…

Michael Janofsky

Long division

Our good friend Kalyan, a gay Indian-American, was so distraught by rising discrimination against Blacks,…

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

A calamity of lost youth

Toby Green

High numbers of deaths among young people are being ignored by the media and politicians

Reviled swimmers

Claudia Cockerell

Restricted access to clean waters leads to legal action

AI makes you stupid

Susie Alegre

It's shrinking your brain – but don't panic, because swearing can reboot your cognitive creativity

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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

Magical Money Theory

Vince Cable

The challenges facing the UK economy and long-term issues that hinder growth

More than the sum of our parts

Diana Thomas

Our common identity runs deeper than our individuality

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Charles Spencer

The writer, historian, podcaster and 9th Earl Spencer Charles Spencer talks about boarding school trauma, class aspirations and the importance of speaking out

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Dominic Cummings

Rowan Pelling talks to Dominic Cummings about a start-up party, Brexit, the covid inquiry, Whitehall and other shit-shows

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Caroline Calloway

The headline-hitting American social climber who found fame via a “faked” Cambridge application

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Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Ronni Ancona

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Disaster planner and recovery expert

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Rosie Holt

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Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Benny Higgins

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Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Vince Cable

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

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Michael Holding

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Sally Phillips

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

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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

Tessa Hadley

The critically acclaimed novelist discusses her 1950s-set novella The Party with Helen Brown

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

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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Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

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

There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and trouble alcoholic

Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

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Anne Billson

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Anything goes

Christobel Kent

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Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

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

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

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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

“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

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

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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