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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…

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An age without rival

It wasn’t long before Hallowe’en that I noted many of the significant women in my life – including my wife and the editrix of this august publication – were devoting…

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Natural hazards

The first novel that truly affected me as a young reader was eschatological in nature.…

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A little while ago, I was invited to a small private dinner at a well-known…

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Where hope takes root

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Creative destruction

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

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

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Breaking the class ceiling

Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony…

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Why Labour has to be conservative

Here’s a paradox for you: Britain is a conservative country…

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Falling better

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Sally Hayden

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Cambridge In early September I attended the British Red Cross summer school in international humanitarian…

Sam Fowles

Time’s arrow

“Lest we forget” is carved into stone in village squares, town halls and city monuments…

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

The many and the few

Amir Amirani

Reflecting on the twentieth anniversary of the Iraq War

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?

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

Reach out and AI’ll be there

Róisín Lanigan

I post therefore I am

Róisín Lanigan

Uncovering the online persona

Sporting heroes and villains

Boris Starling

The gap between winning trophies and winning hearts

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Gavin Esler talks to the UK’s Astronomer Royal. "The solutions for reducing existential threats are within our grasp"

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Rory Stewart

The former MP talks to Peter Phelps and Rowan Pelling about global conflict and the possibility of his return to front-line politics

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Caroline Calloway

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

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Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Mike Figgis

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Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Andrew Roberts

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Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Daniel Howell

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Craig Brown

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Zandra Rhodes

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Rosie Holt

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Vince Cable

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

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Booker Prize-winning author

Michael Holding

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International Editor of BBC News

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DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Andrew Roberts

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Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Sally Phillips

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

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Member of the House of Lords

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Benny Higgins

Banker

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

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Dan Snow

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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

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

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

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Tina Gharavi

Tina Gharavi’s full response to the controversy surrounding Queen Cleopatra, a Netflix series about the identity of the legendary last pharaoh

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Elizabeth Sharkey

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

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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Anne Billson

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Dressing for utopia

Christobel Kent

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Art in an emergency

Max Lunn

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Raye against the machine

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

Tessa Hadley

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

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

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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