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The total corporation tax charges are in excess of £100,000 over 25 years. Reform UK’s Richard Tice said during a press conference on Monday that a company linked to the…

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Young people are not snowflakes and shirkers, minister insists

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Sonia Sodha

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…

Simon Heffer

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…

Guy Shrubsole

English pastoral

Guy Shrubsole explores England’s buried tradition of land reform, where less than one percent of…

Nathaniel Tapley

Defenestration nation

Postmortems on the corpse of the Conservative party are much like those on real bodies:…

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Michael Janofsky

Roar deal

A century ago, America was ablaze in progressive change: Jazz. Flappers. Shorter skirts. Speakeasies. The…

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

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…

Michael Janofsky

America’s third man

With all the focus on Joe Biden-Donald Trump redux, it’s easy to ignore more than…

Peter Phelps

Hopeful histories

“No news is good news”, the saying goes, but the reverse is also true. Good…

Mic Wright

High society

In 1989, Richard Hoggart wrote in his introduction to George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan…

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The end of days

Boris Starling

If the apocalypse comes, we will almost certainly have brought it on ourselves

Toxic in the extreme

Anjana Menon

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

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The end of days

Boris Starling

If the apocalypse comes, we will almost certainly have brought it on ourselves

Stealth wealth

Róisín Lanigan

A crack in the Millennial dream of equality

Calorie counter

Róisín Lanigan

How arbitrary numbers altered my relationship with food

Women have it good

Zoe Strimpel

Capitalism works for the sisterhood

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Sam Fowles

Shami Chakrabarti

Lawyer and human rights activist Shami Chakrabarti defends the ECHR and discusses how notions of liberty are inverted to justify oppression

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Joanna Grochowicz

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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Terence Blacker

Chuck Berry

The revolutionary musician who single-handedly transformed rock 'n' roll

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Sally Phillips

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

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

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Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Sally Phillips

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

Vince Cable

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

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

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Helen Brown

“Sex is the place where the animal body erupts into the life of the thinking mind”

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

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

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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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

Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

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Give cardis the slip

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

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

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Man-made girl bands

Lily Webb

CULTURE

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Helen Brown

“All I had ever wanted to do was write a novel. When I held the first copy, aged 42, I cried”

Emma Flint

The crime author discusses her new book Other Women

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