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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…

Michael Janofsky

Roar deal

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

Christopher Hart

Hedge fund

According to the great Dr Oliver Rackham, hedges may be the oldest manmade structures on…

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Keiran Goddard

Falling better

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

Kate Devlin

You’re on camera

There’s a quotation by American historian Timothy Snyder currently circulating on social media. It comes…

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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…

Sam Fowles

Time’s arrow

“Lest we forget” is carved into stone in village squares, town halls and city monuments…

Peter Lawlor

History’s false promises

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

Sally Hayden

War reporter

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

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

Looking down your nose at “common” behaviour can create a constructive social dynamic

The disappearance of Abdullah Öcalan

Toby Green

Imprisoned for a quarter-century, the Kurdish leader has been all but forgotten

Fake farm story

Joy Lo Dico

Shouldn’t we be doing more for British farmers?

Bacteria Wars

Lee Hudson

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

Muddle class

Joshua Mcloughlin

Social divides are increasingly ambiguous

#MeToo returns

Charlotte Proudman

New high-profile cases expose deep-rooted misogyny

A side dish of bugs, please

Taras Grescoe

Taras travels to Mexico in search of sustainable food for the future

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Sathnam Sanghera

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

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Rory Stewart

The former MP talks to Peter Phelps and Rowan Pelling about global conflict and the possibility of his return to front-line politics

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Simon Heffer

Chips Channon

Brilliance blighted by poor judgment

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Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

Sally Phillips

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

Andrew Roberts

Historian and journalist

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Benny Higgins

Banker

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

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Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Sally Phillips

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

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Andrew Roberts

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Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Vince Cable

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

Zandra Rhodes

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Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

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Helen Brown

“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

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

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

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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Gothic delights

Elizabeth Sharkey

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

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

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Apocalypse now and then

Anne Billson

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Dressing for dinner

Christobel Kent

POETRY

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

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

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

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The herstory of art

Max Lunn

MUSIC

Sucking the marrow out of life

Laura Barton

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Helen Brown

“Mum set up the company just after her fifth child, my younger brother, left home”

Francesca Beauman

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

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

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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