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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

Why Labour has to be conservative

Here’s a paradox for you: Britain is a conservative country that hates the Conservative party. As our American cousins vulgarly say: “Do the math.” On 4 July 24 per cent…

Kate Devlin

You’re on camera

There’s a quotation by American historian Timothy Snyder currently circulating on social media. It comes…

Wade Graham

The rewilding Republican

Some years ago, I saw the legendary radical environmentalist Dave Foreman give his famous “howl…

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Mic Wright

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Keiran Goddard

Falling better

The only thing slower than writing books, it seems, is publishing them. The mechanisms of…

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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…

Mic Wright

Past futures

When we reach for past visions of the future to measure against our reality, we…

Peter Phelps

Beware Project Fear

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the googly-eyed sage Yoda lectured…

Sally Hayden

War reporter

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

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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

Baby Doomers

Róisín Lanigan

Falling birth rates are a sign of existential angst

More than the sum of our parts

Diana Thomas

Our common identity runs deeper than our individuality

Don’t look now

Susie Alegre

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

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

Falling short of the Four Freedoms

Boris Starling

How Britain is failing Roosevelt's benchmark for a healthy democracy

Magical Money Theory

Vince Cable

The challenges facing the UK economy and long-term issues that hinder growth

Flying the flag

Gavin Esler

The rise of Britain's new patriotism: loud, flag-obsessed and convinced the nation is falling apart

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Henry Dimbleby

Our diet is killing us, but politicians and big business don’t want to know, says the food entrepreneur and writer

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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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Andrew Lownie

Earl Mountbatten

Re-evaluating the legacy of one of the last century’s most controversial leaders

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Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Sally Phillips

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

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Vince Cable

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

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

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Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Benny Higgins

Banker

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Zandra Rhodes

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Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Katie Brand

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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

Hanna Pylväinen

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

Cathy Newman

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

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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Hymn to Hestia

Natalie Haynes

The forgotten goddess of the hearth

There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and troubled alcoholic

The politics of colour

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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Fevered imagination

Anne Billson

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Dressing for doomsday

Christobel Kent

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Things to Consider in the Design of Your First Space Suit by Harry Man

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

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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Fiona Sturges

“Climate change is the most important crisis to face us within the memory of human consciousness”

Ben Okri

The recently knighted novelist, essayist, playwright, poet and Booker Prize winner discusses climate change and his new book Tiger Work with Fiona Sturges

Tessa Hadley

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

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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