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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…

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Posh performance

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

Wade Graham

The new nomadism

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

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Peter Lawlor

Creative destruction

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Cradle of libertines

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

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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…

Lucy Moore

All that jazz

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

Mic Wright

High society

In 1989, Richard Hoggart wrote in his introduction to George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan…

Sam Fowles

Unfree speech

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

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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

A calamity of lost youth

Toby Green

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

More than the sum of our parts

Diana Thomas

Our common identity runs deeper than our individuality

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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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

Oyster grit

Claudia Cockerell

Two Cornish fishermen defy the failings of South West Water

The nostalgia myth

Gavin Esler

The UK’s historical illiteracy has led to delusions that create problems for the future

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Lee Hudson

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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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Ian Anderson

The leader of prog rock band Jethro Tull talks about the end of days, faith, fencesitting, Jacob Rees-Mogg and the band’s new album, RökFlöte

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Simon Heffer

Chips Channon

Brilliance blighted by poor judgment

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Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Dan Snow

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Craig Brown

Author and satirist

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Zandra Rhodes

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Rosie Holt

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Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Andrew Roberts

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Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

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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

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Rosie Holt

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Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Dan Snow

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Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Zandra Rhodes

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DBC Pierre

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Doon Mackichan

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Phil Hammond

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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

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

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

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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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Anything goes

Christobel Kent

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Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

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Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

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The wisdom of native art

Max Lunn

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Man-made girl bands

Lily Webb

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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

Francesca Beauman

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

Cathy Newman

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

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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