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Sonia Sodha

The pitfalls of assisted dying

One of the first concepts new students of philosophy are introduced to is Isaiah Berlin’s famous distinction between “freedom to” and “freedom from”: an illustration of the fact that giving…

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…

Wade Graham

The rewilding Republican

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

Sarah Hall

Natural hazards

The first novel that truly affected me as a young reader was eschatological in nature.…

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Where hope takes root

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Past futures

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

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History’s false promises

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

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Sonia Sodha

The road to recovery

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An age without rival

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The new nomadism

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Might is not right

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

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

The Place of No Return

Nick Hunt

The human-caused devastation of the Aral Sea landscape has given birth to the strangest myths

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Diana Thomas

Our common identity runs deeper than our individuality

Too low for zero

Khaled Bazzi

We need to talk about testosterone deficiency, a debilitating syndrome that affects millions of men

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All that jazz

Lucy Moore

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

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Nick Cohen

Our society's cavalier attitude towards alcoholism

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The many and the few

Amir Amirani

Reflecting on the twentieth anniversary of the Iraq War

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Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

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Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

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Award-winning writer and comedian

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England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

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Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

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International Editor of BBC News

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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

Sarah Hall

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

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Jean Rhys, literary genius and troubled alcoholic

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Sarah Hall

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Tessa Hadley

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

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