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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…

Mic Wright

High society

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

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

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Michael Janofsky

Long division

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

Peter Lawlor

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

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

Simon Heffer

Why Labour has to be conservative

Here’s a paradox for you: Britain is a conservative country…

Peter Phelps

Time for a class act

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

Sarah Hall

Natural hazards

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

Sam Fowles

Time’s arrow

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

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Lucy Moore

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

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Nick Hunt

Why we should lose our fear of the ancient art of foraging

Bacteria Wars

Lee Hudson

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Boris Starling

The gap between winning trophies and winning hearts

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

Trans positive

Róisín Lanigan

We’re living in Terf times

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Jennifer Traig

Baby Doomers

Róisín Lanigan

Falling birth rates are a sign of existential angst

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Gavin Esler talks to the UK’s Astronomer Royal. "The solutions for reducing existential threats are within our grasp"

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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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Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

Ed Vaizey

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Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Ronni Ancona

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Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Zandra Rhodes

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International Editor of BBC News

Phil Hammond

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Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Dan Snow

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Joanna Lumley

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Rosie Holt

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Andrew Roberts

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Katie Brand

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Bobby Seagull

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Daniel Howell

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John Lloyd

Producer of Blackadder and Spitting Image

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ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

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Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Andrew Roberts

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Katie Brand

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Tom Curry

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Wasfi Kani, CBE

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Booker Prize-winning author

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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

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

Francesca Beauman

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

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

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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

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Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and trouble alcoholic

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Apocalypse now and then

Anne Billson

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Christobel Kent

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Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

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The wisdom of native art

Max Lunn

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Sucking the marrow out of life

Laura Barton

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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

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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