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

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Rent in two

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The road to recovery

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Might is not right

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

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Antony Beevor

The Liberation of Paris in August 1944 led to an era of philosophical, political and sexual ferment

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Claudia Cockerell

Restricted access to clean waters leads to legal action

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Boris Starling

One hundred years since the last Paris Games

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Lucy Moore

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

Know thy past

Gillian Mosely

Current shocking violence in Israel and Gaza has its roots in ages of conflict and injustice

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Rebecca Gibb

The dishonourable history of wine fraud, from fake bubbly to bogus Bordeaux

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The British writer who says our multicultural empire led to a multicultural society

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Ian Anderson

The leader of prog rock band Jethro Tull talks about the end of days, faith, fencesitting, Jacob Rees-Mogg and the band’s new album, RökFlöte

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

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Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

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Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

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Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

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Andrew Roberts

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Lucy Easthope

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Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

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The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

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Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

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

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International Editor of BBC News

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Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

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

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Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

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Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

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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

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

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

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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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Christobel Kent

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Max Lunn

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Man-made girl bands

Lily Webb

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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

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