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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

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…

Michael Janofsky

Roar deal

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

Sam Fowles

Unfree speech

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

Khaled Bazzi

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 Phelps

Time for a class act

January is San Francisco’s coldest and wettest month, and generally its quietest. That wasn’t the…

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Sonia Sodha

Breaking the class ceiling

Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony…

Simon Heffer

An age without rival

It wasn’t long before Hallowe’en that I noted many of…

Mic Wright

High society

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

Peter Phelps

Free for all

When you’re stuck in the swamp of a midlife crisis, there’s generally only two ways…

Peter Lawlor

Question time

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

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

Don’t look now

Susie Alegre

We’re being monitored at home, at work and on our streets

Muddle class

Joshua Mcloughlin

Social divides are increasingly ambiguous

The joy of text

Kate Devlin

Online life brings perennial pleasures

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

The many and the few

Amir Amirani

Reflecting on the twentieth anniversary of the Iraq War

Fake farm story

Joy Lo Dico

Shouldn’t we be doing more for British farmers?

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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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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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Terence Blacker

Chuck Berry

The revolutionary musician who single-handedly transformed rock 'n' roll

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actress, comedian, author

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Benny Higgins

Banker

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Zandra Rhodes

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Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

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Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Vince Cable

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

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Dan Snow

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Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Rosie Holt

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DBC Pierre

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The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

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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

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

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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Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

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

Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

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Primetime Potus

Anne Billson

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Dressing for dinner

Christobel Kent

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Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

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Digital art merits attention

Max Lunn

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Hop aboard the turntable

Laura Barton

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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

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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