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Breaking the class ceiling

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New protest laws would be extreme

Having been bored into a stupor by a supposedly Conservative government’s serial failure to be conservative, something Rishi Sunak said recently suddenly had a voice inside me crying, “Whoa!”. His…

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Roar deal

A century ago, America was ablaze in progressive change: Jazz. Flappers. Shorter skirts. Speakeasies. The…

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Hopeful histories

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

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Where hope takes root

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Might is not right

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Sonia Sodha

The road to recovery

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

Simon Heffer

New protest laws would be extreme

Having been bored into a stupor by a supposedly Conservative…

Michael Janofsky

Defensive positions

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

Rowan Pelling

Letter from the editor

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

Christopher Hart

Hedge fund

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

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

The young ones

Lily Webb

The new generation of men are emotionally literate and comfortable in their skin

The wheel turns

Nick Hunt

Why doomsday scenarios appeal to our linear concept of time

One of us

Nicola Rollock

Social class and race are not mutually exclusive

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

The 15-minute protesters

Fred Skulthorp

Green measures are stirring up populist dissent

Fierce courage

Rick Stroud

How a Belgian princess, a waitress and a British nurse risked their lives during WWI

Put AI in its place

Susie Alegre

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

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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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Caroline Calloway

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

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Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Vince Cable

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

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Zandra Rhodes

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Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Benny Higgins

Banker

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Andrew Roberts

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DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

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Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Andrew Roberts

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Sally Phillips

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

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Vince Cable

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

Benny Higgins

Banker

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Dan Snow

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Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Daniel Howell

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Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Phil Hammond

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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

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

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

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There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and trouble alcoholic

Gothic delights

Elizabeth Sharkey

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

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Fevered imagination

Anne Billson

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Give cardis the slip

Christobel Kent

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There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

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New images, new perceptions

Max Lunn

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Rock and Rigoletto

Laura Barton

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Helen Brown

“It is a religion that asks women to have many children and really sacrifice their bodies”

Hanna Pylväinen

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

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

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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