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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

An age without rival

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Defenestration nation

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Only connect

Last month I went to Susheila Nasta’s 70th birthday party in Greenwich, south-east London. I’d…

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Where hope takes root

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Sam Fowles

Posh performance

I recently wrote a column for The National that provoked some, let’s say, passionate reactions. Two…

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Defensive positions

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

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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

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Sam Fowles

Time’s arrow

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

Guy Shrubsole

English pastoral

Guy Shrubsole explores England’s buried tradition of land reform, where less than one percent of…

Peter Lawlor

Rent in two

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The end of days

Boris Starling

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

The emblem of excess

Christobel Kent

Fashion is the essence of capitalism

The colder war

Chris Lincoln-Jones

AI weaponry has already made sci-fi a reality, so the big question is: can we control the machines?

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Snob value

Philip Hensher

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

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Yasmin Azad

A sense of belonging is intrinsic to our mental health

Put AI in its place

Susie Alegre

And that’s a job for human rights experts, not tech billionaires

Birth room battles

Milli Hill

Women are not being properly consulted about their wishes during childbirth

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Hein de Haas

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

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Lysette Anthony

The actress speaks about the repercussions of outing Harvey Weinstein for repeatedly assaulting her as a young woman

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Chuck Berry

The revolutionary musician who single-handedly transformed rock 'n' roll

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Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Zandra Rhodes

Fashion designer

Dan Snow

Historian and TV presenter

Craig Brown

Author and satirist

Lucy Easthope

Disaster planner and recovery expert

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Lord David Owen

Former foreign secretary and co-founder of the SDP

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Rosie Boycott

The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet newspaper

Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Ed Vaizey

Member of the House of Lords

Sally Phillips

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

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Historian, biographer, novelist

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Chris van Tulleken

Doctor, author and science presenter

Vince Cable

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

Michael Holding

Former West Indies Test cricketer and Sky Sports commentator

Tom Curry

England Rugby International and Sale Sharks Flanker

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

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Katie Brand

Award-winning writer and comedian

DBC Pierre

Booker Prize-winning author

Doon Mackichan

actress, comedian, author

Joanna Lumley

Actress, campaigner and national treasure

Bobby Seagull

Maths teacher, author and TV broadcaster

Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and former Culture Secretary

Jeremy Bowen

International Editor of BBC News

Sally Phillips

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

Robert Peston

ITV News political editor and presenter of Peston

Ronni Ancona

Comedian, actress and filmmaker

Ed Balls

Economist, broadcaster and former cabinet minister

Kate Mosse

Author and founder of the Women’s Prize

Rosie Holt

Comedian and actress

Vince Cable

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

Jeremy Paxman

Journalist, broadcaster and quizmaster

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Founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera

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Phil Hammond

Doctor, comedian, journalist

Dan Snow

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Ed Vaizey

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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

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

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

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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There’s always whisky

Miranda Seymour

Jean Rhys, literary genius and trouble alcoholic

Zealots not harlots

Elizabeth Sharkey

How Quaker dissenters became England’s first feminists

Gothic delights

Elizabeth Sharkey

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

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Gangster wrap

Anne Billson

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Tribal fashion

Christobel Kent

POETRY

Hermeneutics by Rebecca Hurst

I Am Waiting For You by Risalet Merdan

There's a Walrus on My Windscreen by Ian Humphreys

Tight Little Island by Rishi Dastidar

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

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Art is not a luxury

Rachel Campbell Johnston

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Sucking the marrow out of life

Laura Barton

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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

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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