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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…
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…
Might is not right
The date of 26 January 2024 may become a watershed moment in the history of…
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There’s a quotation by American historian Timothy Snyder currently circulating on social media. It comes…
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Creative destruction
According to a quip once made by Peter Ustinov, “Just before the world blows itself…
Posh performance
I recently wrote a column for The National that provoked some, let’s say, passionate reactions. Two…
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New protest laws would be extreme
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The rewilding Republican
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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
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
The Duke of Windsor
How he actively engaged with Nazi Germany during World War II
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Acts of sedition
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Gothic delights
Exploring the history of a genre that first bewitched Elizabeth as a teenage Joy Division fan
CULTURE
“Most people, most of the time, are if not collaborators then co-operators with the ruling regime”
Mary Beard
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
The critically acclaimed novelist discusses her 1950s-set novella The Party with Helen Brown
Whiting Award and Balcones Fiction Prize-winner discusses her strict Lutheran upbringing and her novel The End of Drum-Time
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The politics of colour
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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Free spirit
How a gap year full of travel and adventure became a “gap life” boundaried only by possibility and curiosity
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Hungry Ghosts
Clearing the flat of her late, estranged father, Patricia finds the recipe for forgiveness
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