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Sonia Sodha

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

Correcting our Grammar mistake

During the Blair years, when recalcitrant Conservatives longed for a pledge to open new grammar schools, no class warrior threw himself into the battle against selective education with such ferocity…

Sally Hayden

War reporter

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

Peter Phelps

Free for all

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

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Passing as upper class

Lots of things from the 1990s are difficult to explain to your teenage children now:…

Mic Wright

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COMMENT

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…

Monique Roffey

Only connect

Last month I went to Susheila Nasta’s 70th birthday party in Greenwich, south-east London. I’d…

Sam Fowles

Posh performance

I recently wrote a column for The National that provoked some, let’s say, passionate reactions. Two…

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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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

Dollar fever

Frances Coppola

Competing currencies won’t unlock the world from the shackles of US financial hegemony

More than the sum of our parts

Diana Thomas

Our common identity runs deeper than our individuality

Xi the Peacemaker

Michael Burleigh

China’s diplomatic manoeuvring wrong-foots the West

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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

Democracy inaction

Gavin Esler

From Russia to Rwanda, a year of record global voting masks a deepening crisis for democratic freedom

Baby Doomers

Róisín Lanigan

Falling birth rates are a sign of existential angst

Women have it good

Zoe Strimpel

Capitalism works for the sisterhood

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Gavin Esler

Henry Dimbleby

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

In Conversation In Conversation – Front Page

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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

Reputations Reputations – Front Page

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Simon Heffer

Chips Channon

Brilliance blighted by poor judgment

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Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Vince Cable

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

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

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Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Sally Phillips

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

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Vince Cable

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

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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

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

Tessa Hadley

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

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Gothic delights

Elizabeth Sharkey

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

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

Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

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

FILM

Apocalypse now and then

Anne Billson

STYLE

Tribal fashion

Christobel Kent

POETRY

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

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

ART

The art of perturbation

Rachel Campbell Johnston

MUSIC

Prisoner with a key

Laura Barton

CULTURE

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Helen Brown

“It is a religion that asks women to have many children and really sacrifice their bodies”

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

Cathy Newman

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

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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