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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

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…

Nathaniel Tapley

Bonkers bunkers

In December 2023 Ron Hubbard, a security consultant from Texas (not to be confused with…

Mic Wright

High society

In 1989, Richard Hoggart wrote in his introduction to George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan…

Khaled Bazzi

Where hope takes root

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

Michael Janofsky

Roar deal

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

Lucy Moore

All that jazz

When we were finally released from lockdown in summer 2021, a hedonistic return to real…

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Sonia Sodha

The road to recovery

First in 1945, then 1997 and now 2024. The three…

Simon Heffer

Correcting our Grammar mistake

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

Wade Graham

The rewilding Republican

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

Kate Devlin

You’re on camera

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

Mic Wright

Past futures

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

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Free as a bird

Keggie Carew

A meditation on our complex relationship with wildness

Falling short of the Four Freedoms

Boris Starling

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

The many and the few

Amir Amirani

Reflecting on the twentieth anniversary of the Iraq War

Keeping Russia in check

Peter Hitchens

A wrong move by a fractious West could trigger all-out war

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

Xi the Peacemaker

Michael Burleigh

China’s diplomatic manoeuvring wrong-foots the West

La La land

Joan Harrison

The road to Hollywood is paved with anti-ageing procedures

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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Gavin Esler

Hein de Haas

Sociologist and myth-buster Hein de Haas explains how politicians’ pandering to prejudice has backfired

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Rowan Pelling

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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Ben Wilson

Pasquale Paoli

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

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Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Vince Cable

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

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

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Sally Phillips

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

Wasfi Kani, CBE

Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

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Helen Brown

“The current generation don’t seem to be using their power for much more than shooting penis-shaped rockets into outer space”

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

Cathy Newman

Channel 4’s first female news anchor discusses trailblazing women, internet trolls, sexual assault and her new book The Ladder

Francesca Beauman

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

Hanna Pylväinen

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

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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

There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and trouble alcoholic

Gothic delights

Elizabeth Sharkey

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

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Girls will be boys

Christobel Kent

POETRY

Blood Moon by Gillian Clarke

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

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Get Back

Laura Barton

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Helen Brown

“Most people, most of the time, are if not collaborators then co-operators with the ruling regime”

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

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

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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