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The pitfalls of assisted dying

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Simon Heffer

New protest laws would be extreme

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Sam Fowles

Might is not right

The date of 26 January 2024 may become a watershed moment in the history of…

Peter Lawlor

Question time

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

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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Michael Janofsky

Fight madness with more madness

Most of my friends and I live in a bubble (Los Angeles) within a bubble…

Sam Fowles

Unfree speech

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

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Sonia Sodha

The pitfalls of assisted dying

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are…

Simon Heffer

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Mic Wright

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Peter Lawlor

Creative destruction

According to a quip once made by Peter Ustinov, “Just before the world blows itself…

Lucy Moore

All that jazz

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

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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

I post therefore I am

Róisín Lanigan

Uncovering the online persona

The nostalgia myth

Gavin Esler

The UK’s historical illiteracy has led to delusions that create problems for the future

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

The carefree socialites of the 1920s can teach us how to let our hair down

Dollar fever

Frances Coppola

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

AI makes you stupid

Susie Alegre

It's shrinking your brain – but don't panic, because swearing can reboot your cognitive creativity

Toxic in the extreme

Anjana Menon

India’s women still face a widespread culture of lethal misogyny

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Gavin Esler talks to the UK’s Astronomer Royal. "The solutions for reducing existential threats are within our grasp"

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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

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Earl Mountbatten

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

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Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Zandra Rhodes

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John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Benny Higgins

Banker

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Vince Cable

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

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Sally Phillips

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

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

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Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Daniel Howell

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Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Benny Higgins

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Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Ed Vaizey

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Andrew Roberts

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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

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

Francesca Beauman

The Persephone Books publisher discusses forgotten gems written by women and the imprint’s 150th book

Hanna Pylväinen

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

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Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and trouble alcoholic

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Elizabeth Sharkey

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

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Fevered imagination

Anne Billson

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Dressing for doomsday

Christobel Kent

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Max Lunn

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Sucking the marrow out of life

Laura Barton

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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

Tessa Hadley

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

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