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COMMENT

Breaking the class ceiling

Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony Blair’s “education, education, education” pitch in 1997. They are similarly echoed in Keir Starmer’s vision for Britain: he has repeatedly framed his desire to be…

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…

High society

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

War reporter

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

Where hope takes root

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

Falling better

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

Question time

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

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COMMENT

The pitfalls of assisted dying

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are…

Correcting our Grammar mistake

During the Blair years, when recalcitrant Conservatives longed for a…

Beware Project Fear

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

Free for all

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

Hopeful histories

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

Perspectives

The end of days

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

One of us

Social class and race are not mutually exclusive

The funk of flunk

Cosmo Landesman

There’s an art to failing gracefully

Only connect

A sense of belonging is intrinsic to our mental health

Perspectives

The end of days

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

The nostalgia myth

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

La La land

The road to Hollywood is paved with anti-ageing procedures

Keeping Russia in check

A wrong move by a fractious West could trigger all-out war

PEOPLE

PEOPLE

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Shami Chakrabarti

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

In Conversation In Conversation - Front Page TCE

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Dominic Cummings

Rowan Pelling talks to Dominic Cummings about a start-up party, Brexit, the covid inquiry, Whitehall and other shit-shows

Reputations Reputations - Front Page

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Chips Channon

Brilliance blighted by poor judgment

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE - Q&As

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Benny Higgins

Banker

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Tom Curry

Black and white photo of Tom Curry in England Rugby kit

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE – Q&As

Benny Higgins

Banker

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Tom Curry

Black and white photo of Tom Curry in England Rugby kit

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

CULTURE

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“The vitriol online can really knock your confidence”

Cathy Newman

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

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

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

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

FEATURES

The politics of colour

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

Playing through the nose

Dressing for utopia

Christobel Kent

POETRY

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

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

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

The wisdom of native art

Raye against the machine

CULTURE

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“Most people, most of the time, are if not collaborators then co-operators with the ruling regime”

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

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

Hanna Pylväinen

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

Francesca Beauman

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

FEATURES

Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

Gothic delights

Elizabeth Sharkey

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

Film, Film - Front Page, TCE

Primetime Potus

Style, Style - Front Page, TCE

Anything goes

Christobel Kent

POETRY

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

Art, Art - Front Page, TCE

The art of perturbation

Rachel Campbell Johnston

Music, Music - Front Page, TCE

Prisoner with a key

Book Reviews

LIFE

Buffalo Gal

Unpacking the formative impact of an iconic 1980s pop video

Funny Woman

The challenges of being a female comic

The go-between

Growing up in a tied cottage on a landed estate

Spaniel stories

How a mischievous companion transformed my life

LIFE

Alas, poor Yorick

When your childhood garden is a charnel house, and skeletons your toys

Crush addict

What makes infatuation so compelling

Cutting ties

Rowena Macdonald

The stress of breaking up with your hairdresser

Hungry Ghosts

Patricia Campbell

Clearing the flat of her late, estranged father, Patricia finds the recipe for forgiveness

MIND OVER MATTER

Neurological-based
advice

FROM DR ASH RANPURA

Gender norms and New Age neighbours

Shopping addiction and a divisive will

A personality change and a foot fetish

Yo-yo dieting and a petrolhead husband

Middle-aged tears and talking to toddlers

MIND OVER MATTER

Neurological-based
advice

FROM DR ASH RANPURA

In-law etiquette, and seeking an ADHD diagnosis

Teenage consent and a flaky friend

Dealing with a child who lies and a dinner party refusenik

How to be optimistic and an autism diagnosis

Festive family tensions & disordered eating