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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

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…

Michael Janofsky

Roar deal

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

Mic Wright

Hold the blank page

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Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Michael Janofsky

Fight madness with more madness

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Defenestration nation

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

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Sonia Sodha

The road to recovery

First in 1945, then 1997 and now 2024. The three…

Simon Heffer

An age without rival

It wasn’t long before Hallowe’en that I noted many of…

Michael Janofsky

Long division

Our good friend Kalyan, a gay Indian-American, was so distraught by rising discrimination against Blacks,…

Peter Lawlor

Creative destruction

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

Peter Lawlor

Question time

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

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

Oyster grit

Claudia Cockerell

Two Cornish fishermen defy the failings of South West Water

The emblem of excess

Christobel Kent

Fashion is the essence of capitalism

My generation’s missing out on the naughties

Róisín Lanigan

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

From crusader crosses at marches to political speeches quoting the Old Testament, a strident form of Christian nationalism is crossing the Atlantic, threatening Britain's traditional separation of church and state

The joy of text

Kate Devlin

Online life brings perennial pleasures

Put AI in its place

Susie Alegre

And that’s a job for human rights experts, not tech billionaires

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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

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Rowan Pelling

Dominic Cummings

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

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Ben Wilson

Pasquale Paoli

The Corsican guerilla commander who inspired the modern quest for charismatic political leaders

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Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Vince Cable

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

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE – Q&As

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Benny Higgins

Banker

Vince Cable

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

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

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Helen Brown

“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

Tessa Hadley

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

Cathy Newman

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

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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Gothic delights

Elizabeth Sharkey

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

Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

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

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Fevered imagination

Anne Billson

STYLE

Girls will be boys

Christobel Kent

POETRY

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

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

ART

The wisdom of native art

Max Lunn

MUSIC

Rock and Rigoletto

Laura Barton

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Fiona Sturges

“Climate change is the most important crisis to face us within the memory of human consciousness”

Ben Okri

The recently knighted novelist, essayist, playwright, poet and Booker Prize winner discusses climate change and his new book Tiger Work with Fiona Sturges

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

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