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The road to recovery

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…

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…

Unfree speech

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

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

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

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

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How a gap year full of travel and adventure became a “gap life” boundaried only by possibility and curiosity

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