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Sonia Sodha

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…

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…

Peter Lawlor

History’s false promises

In 2015, when interviewing Jonathan Sumption, Matt Stadlen asked a deceptively simple question: “Why does…

Sam Fowles

Posh performance

I recently wrote a column for The National that provoked some, let’s say, passionate reactions. Two…

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Wade Graham

The rewilding Republican

Some years ago, I saw the legendary radical environmentalist Dave Foreman give his famous “howl…

Nathaniel Tapley

Passing as upper class

Lots of things from the 1990s are difficult to explain to your teenage children now:…

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Sonia Sodha

The pitfalls of assisted dying

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are…

Simon Heffer

Correcting our Grammar mistake

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Cradle of libertines

England likes to think of itself as “the cradle of liberty”. True, if you think…

Peter Phelps

Time for a class act

January is San Francisco’s coldest and wettest month, and generally its quietest. That wasn’t the…

Sam Fowles

Unfree speech

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

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

Les Temps Modernes

Antony Beevor

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

Freedumb, you say?

Gabrielle Bauer

Mumbo Jumbo

Ben Wormald

Political discourse has become a cauldron of curses, conspiracies and clickbait, where inflammatory rhetoric can manifest into deadly reality

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

Fierce courage

Rick Stroud

How a Belgian princess, a waitress and a British nurse risked their lives during WWI

Stealth wealth

Róisín Lanigan

A crack in the Millennial dream of equality

A calamity of lost youth

Toby Green

High numbers of deaths among young people are being ignored by the media and politicians

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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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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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Lucy Ward

Catherine the Great

The enlightened empress who inoculated herself to protect her subjects and advance science

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John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Vince Cable

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

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

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Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Vince Cable

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

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Sally Phillips

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

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Benny Higgins

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Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

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Helen Brown

“When you see extremely violent sexual stuff on stage you always need to ask: who’s creating it for who and why?”

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

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

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

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Acts of sedition

Pauline F Kiernan

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

There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and trouble alcoholic

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Fevered imagination

Anne Billson

STYLE

Give cardis the slip

Christobel Kent

POETRY

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

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

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

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Art in an emergency

Max Lunn

MUSIC

Rock and Rigoletto

Laura Barton

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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

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

Bee Wilson

The food writer, journalist, author and charity campaigner for TastEd discusses festive family rituals, celebrating Christmas as a newly single parent and her first recipe book

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