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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

Why Labour has to be conservative

Here’s a paradox for you: Britain is a conservative country that hates the Conservative party. As our American cousins vulgarly say: “Do the math.” On 4 July 24 per cent…

Sam Fowles

Unfree speech

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

Peter Lawlor

History’s false promises

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

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Nathaniel Tapley

Defenestration nation

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

Sam Fowles

Might is not right

The date of 26 January 2024 may become a watershed moment in the history of…

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Sonia Sodha

Breaking the class ceiling

Aspiration and social mobility were at the heart of Tony…

Simon Heffer

New protest laws would be extreme

Having been bored into a stupor by a supposedly Conservative…

Michael Janofsky

Long division

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

Mic Wright

Past futures

When we reach for past visions of the future to measure against our reality, we…

Michael Janofsky

Defensive positions

When I was a kid and the Cold War was in full bloom, we were…

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

Falling short of the Four Freedoms

Boris Starling

How Britain is failing Roosevelt's benchmark for a healthy democracy

The silent struggle

Tomiwa Owolade

Disadvantages in education can be more nuanced than just race and gender

La La land

Joan Harrison

The road to Hollywood is paved with anti-ageing procedures

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

All my friends are having Botox now

Róisín Lanigan

Mumbo Jumbo

Ben Wormald

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

Guns and poses

Michael Burleigh

The Ukraine invasion is changing the future of warfare

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Charles Spencer

The writer, historian, podcaster and 9th Earl Spencer Charles Spencer talks about boarding school trauma, class aspirations and the importance of speaking out

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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

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Caroline Calloway

The headline-hitting American social climber who found fame via a “faked” Cambridge application

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actress, comedian, author

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Vince Cable

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

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Benny Higgins

Banker

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Sally Phillips

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

Mike Figgis

Film director, composer, musician

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Daniel Howell

Author, entertainer and comedian

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

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Wynne Evans

Opera singer and radio presenter

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Andrew Roberts

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Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Ed Vaizey

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Lynn Barber

author and journalist

Phil Hammond

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Joanna Lumley

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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

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

Francesca Beauman

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

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

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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

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 utopia

Christobel Kent

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Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

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

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Digital art merits attention

Max Lunn

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Man-made girl bands

Lily Webb

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Helen Brown

“It is a religion that asks women to have many children and really sacrifice their bodies”

Hanna Pylväinen

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

Tessa Hadley

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

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

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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